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In 2000 the World Bank made a corporate
commitment to organize a small states Forum each year in the
context of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World
Bank annual meetings. The forum is intended to raise the
profile of small states issues and provide an opportunity
for small state officials to bring their views and ideas to
the attention of the international community. Forty-eight
World Bank members comprise the small states forum, all but
five having populations below 1.5 million. These countries
are all included in the World Development Indicators
database, but countries with populations of less than one
million do not appear in the main tables of the print
publication. To better serve this important segment of the
Bank's membership and to help highlight the challenges
they face, this special supplement to the World Development
Indicators (WDI) has been produced, covering critical
development factors. The data in this supplement cover 40
members of the small states forum excluding the high-income
countries of Bahrain, Brunei Darussalam, Cyprus, Estonia,
Iceland, Malta, Qatar, and San Marino.
