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- Mauritania
- Capital
- Nouakchott
- people
- 3,205,060
- Economy
- 6.5billion (iron ore 40% of
- exports. Pastoral agroculture)
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- Burkina Faso
- Capital
- Ouagadougou
- people
- 16,241,811
- Economy
- 19billion (landlocked, poor
- natural resources, 90% of the population subsitance agroculture)
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- Gambia
- Capital
- Banjul
- people
- 1,824,158
- Economy
- 2billion
- (sparse natural resources, and poor land for agroculture. Though, 1/3 of economy is agroculture
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- Ghana
- Capital
- Accra
- people
- 24,339,838
- Economy
- 36.5 billion
- (endowed with natural recources, but is heavilly reliant of foreign
- assistance)
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- Guinea Bissau
- Capital
- Bissau
- people
- 1,565,126
- Economy
- 933 million (one of the six
- poorest nations in the world)
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- Guinea
- Capital
- Conakry
- people
- 10,324,025
- Economy
- 10.5billion (natural recourses,
- hydropower, but remains poorly developed)
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- Liberia
- Capital
- Monrovia
- people
- 3,685,076
- Economy
- 1.5billion (mineral rich, good
- agricultural potential, but civil war had destroyed much of the
- infrastucture)
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- Mali
- Capital
- Bamako
- people
- 13,796,354
- Economy
- 15.5billion (one fo the 25
- poorest countries in the world. 25% deset, unequal distrobution of wealth)
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- Mali
- Capital
- Bamako
- people
- 13,796,354
- Economy
- 15.5billion (one fo the 25
- poorest countries in the world. 25% deset, unequal distrobution of wealth)
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- Niger
- Capital
- Naimey
- people
- 15,878,271
- Economy
- 10.5 billion
- (ranks near last on the UN human development index, one of the poorest
- countries in the world)
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- Nigeria
- Capital
- Abuja
- people
- 152,217,341
- Economy
- 357 billion
- (highly dependant on oil [95% f foreign exchang, 80% of government
- expenditures] military government has failed to divert the economy away from
- oil dependance. Poor infrastructure)
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- Senegal
- Capital
- Dakar
- people
- 14,086,103
- Economy
- 22billion
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- Sierra Leone
- Capital
- Freetown
- people
- 5,245,695
- Economy
- 4.5
- billion(one of the worlds poorest countries with highest income
- inequality. Natural resources and
- diamond mining)
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- Togo
- Capital
- Lome
- people
- 6,199,841
- Economy
- 5 billion
- (highly reliant on agroculture, one of the worlds largest producer of
- phosphates)
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- Benin
- Capital
- Porto Novo
- people
- 9,056,010
- Economy
- 13 billion
- (reliant on agroculture, rapid population growth undercuts the small growth
- in the economy)
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