The accompanying table shows the average annual growth rate in real GDP per capita for Argentina, Ghana, and South Korea using data from the Penn World Table, Version 7.1, for the past few decades.

Average annual growth rate of real GDP per capita Years Argentina Ghana South Korea 1960-1970 2.43% 2.21% 5.50% 1970-1980 1.16 -1.46 6.43 1980-1990 -1.89 -0.04 8.46 1990-2000 3.09 1.53 5.05 2000-2010 3.44 3.58 3.60