for information our national poverty rate per cent based on the latest available household survey and calculated with a per capita equivalence scale for the whole population is very close to the official one per cent world development indicators numbers in parentheses refer to the baseyear values as already discussed above the lower rates in cameroon might be at least partly due to the better quality of data used to calculate hunger rates however the simulated changes still give some rough basis for discussion in terms of bau hunger rates figures for cameroon are broadly in line with those for monetary poverty rates on the other hand burkina faso and to a greater extent ghana show a trend in hunger rates to some extent different from that discussed above for monetary poverty figure