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B1 Africa: Economically Active Population by Major Activity Groups (in thousands)

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  1. SOURCES: The immediate source of most statistics up to 1966 is P. Bairoch et al., La Population Active et Sa Structure (Institut du Sociologie, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1968). The original sources are described in detail there. Later data come mainly from I.L.O. Yearbook of Labour Statistics. Statistics for Taiwan to 1940 are taken from

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  2. Samuel P.S. Ho, Economic Development of Taiwan, 1860–1970 (Yale, 1978), pp. 324–26. Data for 1993–2000 from

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  3. K. Murison, Africa South of the Sahara 2002, (London: Europa, 2001);

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  4. J. Maker, The Middle East and North Africa 2002, (London: Europa, 2001); United Nations Statistical Yearbook.

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Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. (2013). B1 Africa: Economically Active Population by Major Activity Groups (in thousands). In: International Historical Statistics. International Historical Statistics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-30568-8_26

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