Skip to main content
. 2010 Dec 15;5(12):e14327. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014327

Table 4. Countries where rainfed cropland area increases but average annual water yield on rainfed cropland area decreases between 2000 and 2015 under the country scenario (the lower right quadrant of panel A in Figure 3).

Country HDI HDI Country Group Percentage change in annual water yield on rainfed cropland grid cells Percentage change in rainfed cropland grid cell area
Congo, DRC 0.361 Low −5.1 0.5
Mozambique 0.366 Low −6.3 41.8
Guinea-Bissau 0.383 Low −11.7 25.6
Mali 0.391 Low −6.7 2.8
Guinea 0.423 Low −1.8 40.8
Rwanda 0.435 Low −8.8 2.7
Zambia 0.453 Low −17.5 3.5
Malawi 0.457 Low −23.1 48.9
The Gambia 0.471 Low −23.8 20.6
Angola 0.484 Low −12.6 4.5
Uganda 0.493 Low −12.3 14.0
Senegal 0.502 Medium −23.3 8.1
Tanzania 0.503 Medium −14.1 9.5
Kenya 0.532 Medium −21.3 21.7
Mauritania 0.557 Medium −23.4 26.1
Cambodia 0.575 Medium −7.5 4.5
Myanmar 0.585 Medium −1.0 3.0
Laos 0.608 Medium −3.8 3.5
Bhutan 0.613 Medium −5.9 4.4
Congo 0.619 Medium −8.2 5.2
Botswana 0.664 Medium −25.4 4.2
South Africa 0.67 Medium −15.8 4.5
Nicaragua 0.699 Medium −0.4 2.4
Bolivia 0.723 Medium −1.5 9.3
West Bank 0.731 Medium −8.7 19.1
Tunisia 0.762 Medium −4.3 6.9
Georgia 0.763 Medium −7.5 5.6
Jordan 0.769 Medium −4.0 3.1
Peru 0.788 Medium −5.1 5.4
Bosnia & Herzegovina 0.802 High −10.9 0.4
Brazil 0.807 High −8.4 8.9
Serbia & Montenegro 0.821 High −10.2 10.4
Oman 0.839 High −64.7 6.0
Latvia 0.863 High −6.2 35.8
Iraq Undefined −3.9 3.6
San Marino Undefined −8.1 46.6
Zimbabwe Undefined −22.6 7.8