Table 1.

Worldwide scientific publications

	1997 (%)	Change after 1990 (%)
Western Europe	37.5	110
North America	36.6	92
Industrial Asia	10.8	126
Former Soviet Union	3.7	54
Oceania	2.8	107
China	2.0	170
India	1.9	89
Latin America	1.8	136
Southern and Eastern Mediterranean	1.9	120
Sub-Saharan Africa	0.7	72
Rest of Asia	0.5	98

Source: Indicateurs 2000, Observatoire des Sciences et des Techniques, Paris (www.obs-ost.fr/en/)