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Promoting Agricultural Value Chains

In the OIC Member Countries

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Figure 3-3 GDP composition in the OIC, 2013

Source: World Development Indicators, 2015

The high differences among OIC Member Countries can best be observed when looking at the

extremes of the scale: In Somalia agriculture accounted for 60.2 percent of GDP in 2013,

whereas in the Gulf States of Kuwait and Qatar agriculture’s contribution to GDP was ranked at

zero percent. These sharp differences both have to do with the general agricultural potential of

a country (land surface, arable land, availability of natural resources, etc.) and with the level of

economic development. In general, agriculture is more important in poorer countries, as can

also be seen in the example above, where Somalia’s GDP per capita is US$ 133, whereas Kuwait

and Qatar have a GDP per capita of about US$ 52,000 and US$ 93,000, respectively.