poorest contries in the World.

EAST TIMOR

Location: Southeastern Asia, northwest of Australia in the Lesser Sunda Islands at the eastern end of the Indonesian archipelago; note - East Timor includes the eastern half of the island of Timor, the Oecussi (Ambeno) region on the northwest portion of the island of Timor, and the islands of Pulau Atauro and Pulau Jaco


Population: 1,019,252
note:
other estimates range as low as 800,000 (July 2004 est.)
Capital: Dili
GDP per capita: purchasing power parity - $500 (2001 est.)

SOMALIA

Location: Eastern Africa, bordering the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean, east of Ethiopia
Population: 8,591,629
note: this estimate was derived from an official census taken in 1975 by the Somali Government; population counting in Somalia is complicated by the large number of nomads and by refugee movements in response to famine and clan warfare (July 2005 est.)
Capital: Mogadishu
GDP per capita: purchasing power parity - $600 (2004 est.)

Sierra Leone

Location: Western Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between Guinea and Liberia
Population: 5,883,889 (July 2004 est.)
Capital: Freetown
GDP per capita: purchasing power parity - $500 (2004 est.)

Malawi

Location: Southern Africa, east of Zambia
Population: 12,158,924
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2005 est.)
Capital: Lilongwe
GDP per capita: purchasing power parity - $600 (2004 est.)

Tanzania

Location: Eastern Africa, bordering the Indian Ocean, between Kenya and Mozambique
Population: 36,766,356
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2005 est.).
Capital: Dar es Salaam; note - legislative offices have been transferred to Dodoma, which is planned as the new national capital; the National Assembly now meets there on regular basis
GDP per capita: purchasing power parity - $700 (2004 est.)

Burundi

Location: Central Africa, east of Democratic Republic of the Congo
Population: 6,370,609
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2005 est.)
Capital: Bujumbura
GDP per capita: purchasing power parity - $600 (2004 est.)

Congo, Republic

Location: Western Africa, bordering the South Atlantic Ocean, between Angola and Gabon
Population: 2,998,040
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2004 est.)
Capital: Brazzaville
GDP per capita: purchasing power parity - $700 (2004 est.)

Congo, Democratic Republic

Location: Central Africa, northeast of Angola
Population: 58,317,930
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2004 est.)
Capital: Kinshasa
GDP per capita: purchasing power parity - $700 (2004 est.)

Comoros

Location: Southern Africa, group of islands at the northern mouth of the Mozambique Channel, about two-thirds of the way between northern Madagascar and northern Mozambique
Population: 671,247 (July 2005 est.)
Capital: Moroni
GDP per capita: purchasing power parity - $700 (2002 est.)

Eritrea

Location: Eastern Africa, bordering the Red Sea, between Djibouti and Sudan
Population: 4,561,599 (July 2005 est.)

Capital: Asmara
GDP per capita: purchasing power parity - $900 (2004 est.)