Promoting Agricultural Research and Development to Strengthen Food Security in South Asia

Table 3

Average annual growth rates of agriculture (%).

	1971–80	1981–90	1991–00	2001–10	1971–2010
High-income countries	1.83	0.97	1.25	0.47	1.14
Transition countries	0.81	1.42	−4.03	2.28	0.04
South Asia	2.19	3.70	2.76	2.80	2.86
The world	2.08	2.42	2.09	2.42	2.25

Source: adapted from FAOSTAT 2012, http://faostat.fao.org/.