-4.6 7.0 1982 -1 o. 7 5.0 -14.6 -16.6 -14.8 -18.0 -8.5 2.8 13 .o -2.4 -5.4 -37.3 1.0' ... -10.2 Source: International Financial Statistics, vol. XXXV, No. 12 (Decewber lgs2)-,--pp.--57-and-S9. The 1982 price changes are based on data for 10 months, except for cacao; ground-nuts and tea (9 months only) and wood logs (3 months only). Note: The commodity name is follO\o~ed by the country of origin-ind the pricing point L~ parenthesis. ~/ These figures were obtained by weighting the price in­ dexes (1980=100) using 1980 values in US dollar terms. 116 E/ECA/CM.9/5 20. The difficult years of 1981-lg82 hit Africa much harder than other parts of the developing world. The share of developing Africa's exports in the total exports of the developing world fell almost 4 percentage points between 1980 and 1982, and both oil-exporting and non-oil-exporting countries suffered this very serious set-back. Table VI.A.8 gives an impression of the mag­ nitude of the difficulties, showing clearly that the developing world as a whole has been more resistant to \>TOrl d economic reces­ sion than Africa. The main difference lies in the more diver­ sified commodity structure of countries outside Africa. Table VI.A.8 Developing Africa's share in the trade of the developing world (Percentage) Developing Africa Exports Imports Oil-exporting Africa ~I Exports Imports Non-oil-exporting developing Africa Exports Imports a/ Total Nigeria as a countries. for Algeria, percentage of the the 1980 1981 1982 15.8 12.9 11.9 14.9 15.6 21.3 17.4 16.2 27.6 28.1 ~I 10.6 9.1 8.9 10.6 11.0 Libyan Arab Jamahiriya and total for all oil-exporting b/ Non-oil-exporting developing Africa's share in the total for all non-oil-exporting developing countries. 21. The trade deficit reached alarming proportions in 1981-1982. The 1981 deficit was 20 per cent of export earnings for develop­