Mali is the seventh largest country in Africa of which Algeria on the north, Niger,Burkina faso,Cote D'Ivoire,Guinea on the south, Senegal, Mauritania on the west andniger on the east. It's rank from the bottom is 18th and from the top is 169 with av. gnp in atlas method est, 2003 is 290 US $ per capita.
In other measurement IMF (est.2007),WB (est.2007) CIA (est.2008) rank and GDP (NOMINAL)per capita is as below:
Rank/GDP....Rank/GDP.....Rank/GDP
154/531.......147/556......158/562
It is a landf locked country in west Africa consisting of eight regions,Mali's borders on the north reach deep into the middle of the Sahara, while the country's southern region , where the majority inhabitants live, features the Niger and Senegal rivers.
