ing, textiles, steel, aluminum, motor vehicle assembly
Vietnam:
food processing, garments, shoes, machine building, mining,
cement, chemical fertilizer, glass, tires, oil, coal, steel, paper
Virgin Islands:
tourism, petroleum refining, watch assembly, rum
distilling, construction, pharmaceuticals, textiles, electronics
Wallis and Futuna:
copra, handicrafts, fishing, lumber
West Bank:
generally small family businesses that produce cement,
textiles, soap, olive-wood carvings, and mother-of-pearl souvenirs;
the Israelis have established some small-scale, modern industries in
the settlements and industrial centers
Western Sahara:
phosphate mining, handicrafts
World:
dominated by the onrush of technology, especially in
computers, robotics, telecommunications, and medicines and medical
equipment; most of these advances take place in OECD nations; only a
small portion of non-OECD countries have succeeded in rapidly
adjusting to these technological forces; the accelerated development
of new industrial (and agricultural) technology is complicating
already grim environmental problems
Yemen:
crude oil production and petroleum refining; small-scale
production of cotton textiles and leather goods; food processing;
handicrafts; small aluminum products factory; cement
Yugoslavia:
machine building (aircraft, trucks, and automobiles;
tanks and weapons; electrical equipment; agricultural machinery);
metallurgy (steel, aluminum, copper, lead, zinc, chromium, antimony,
bismuth, cadmium); mining (coal, bauxite, nonferrous ore, iron ore,
limestone); consumer goods (textiles, footwear, foodstuffs,
appliances); electronics, petroleum products, chemicals, and
pharmaceuticals
Zambia:
copper mining and processing, construction, foodstuffs,
beverages, chemicals, textiles, fertilizer
Zimbabwe:
mining (coal, gold, copper, nickel, tin, clay, numerous
metallic and nonmetallic ores), steel, wood products, cement,
chemicals, fertilizer, clothing and footwear, foodstuffs, beverages
Taiwan:
electronics, petroleum refining, chemicals, textiles, iron
and steel, machinery, cement, food processing
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@Infant mortality rate
Afghanistan:
147.02 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Albania:
39.99 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Algeria:
40.56 deaths/1,000 live births
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