Editing Economy of Niger (section)

==GDP per capita==
The GDP per capita<ref>[http://earthtrends.wri.org/text/economics-business/variable-638.html earthtrends.wri.org] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080131140920/http://earthtrends.wri.org/text/economics-business/variable-638.html |date=January 31, 2008 }}</ref> of Niger grew 10% in the 1960s. However, this proved unsustainable and it consequently shrank by 27% in the 1980s and a further 48% in the 1990s. Much of this GDP is explained through the exploitation of uranium at [[Arlit]] in the far north of the country. Ore is partially processed on site by foreign mining corporations and transported by truck to [[Benin]]. Fluctuation of GDP can be mapped to changes in international uranium prices, as well as price negotiations with the main mining company, France's [[Orano Cycle]]. Price rises in the mid-1970s were followed by a collapse in the market price through much of the 1980s and 1990s. Thus the country's GDP per capita has little direct impact on the average Nigerien, although uranium funds much government operation. The 2006 [[Human Development Index]] ranked Niger sixth from worst in the world, with a HDI of 0.370: [[List of countries by Human Development Index|174 of 179]] nations.<ref>[http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDR_20072008_EN_Complete.pdf Human Development Report 2007/2008] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110429033726/http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDR_20072008_EN_Complete.pdf |date=2011-04-29 }}. United Nations Development Program.</ref>