'asn stoz sueasuos u! das pue vanw uo paseq s! aneus aul :anon Many African economies depend heavily on these sectors, with several registering MUVA-to-GDP ratios exceeding 30 per cent: Chad, Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Libya, and South Sudan. Similarly, four economies in Western Asia (lraq, Kuwait, Oman, and Qatar) also exhibited MuvA shares above this threshold. In other regions, the contribution of mining and utilities to GDP re- Brunei Darussalam, the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Norway, and Papua New Guinea. The economy with the highest share of MUvA in GDP in the world was Guyana, where the extraction of recently dis- tion. As discussed in Chapter 3, the geography of manufacturing has changed profoundly over the past decades. The mining and utilities sectors have experienced a similar reallocation of activity, though at a place, albeit less dramatically than in the case of manufacturing.