كما أضر ضعف الطلب العالمي بصادرات البلدان ذات الاقتصادات الأكثر تنوعا، فانخفضت، في عام 2002، بنسبة 2.9 في المائة عن معدلها في عام 2001().
Although in 2002 the average oil price stayed just above that of 2001, weak world economic growth and constraints placed on crude oil production by OPEC quotas resulted in a fall in total exports from the region and, in particular, from GCC member States, where the decrease amounted to 5.1 per cent.