1.
In 2000–2006 the average GDP per capita growth in SSA
was 2.0%, up from –0.7% in 1990–1999.
2. Since the mid 1990s oil-exporting countries have grown
more than three times faster than non-oilexporting countries.
3.
The probability of an African country experiencing growth
acceleration increased to 46% in the last decade, up from
21% in the previous decade; the probability of growth deceleration
decreased to 12%, down from 36%.
4.
There is increasing divergence of the income per capita
among countries and as a consequence the distribution of
income is becoming less equal: the ratio of income of the
richest 10% of countries to the poorest 10% of countries
rose from 10.5 in 1975 to 18.5 in 2005.
5.
The GDP of SSA was US$744 billion, which was equivalent
of 28% of China’s GDP, 69% of Brazil’s, 74% of
Russia’s, and 80% of India’s.
6.
The economies of South Africa and Nigeria comprised 56%
of SSA’s GDP.
7.
Equatorial Guinea has the highest GDP per capita ($7,470);
the Democratic Republic of Congo has the lowest ($91)
8.
South Africa has the largest GDP ($242 billion); São
Tomé and Principe has the smallest ($123 million).
9.
The average index of export diversification in SSA is 2.2
(the index measures the extent to which exports are diversified;
0 low to 100 high).
10.
The average terms of trade index was 104.2 (the index measures
the relative movement of export and import prices; 2000
= 100).
11.
The average percentage of exports within trade blocs in
SSA is 7.1%. The East African Community has the highest
within trade bloc share (16.5%), while the Economic Community
of Central African States has the lowest share (0.6%).
12.
In 2000–2006 the electric power consumption per capita
(KWh per capita) of South Africa was 4,847; Ethiopia’s
was 34.4.
13.
Nigeria has the largest population (145 million); Seychelles
has the smallest (0.1 million).
14.
Guinea Bissau has the highest fertility rate (births per
women) (7.1); Mauritius and Seychelles have the lowest (2.0).
15.
Uganda has the highest dependency ratio (ratio of people
younger than 15 or older than 64 to the workingage population)
(1.1); Mauritius has the lowest (0.4).
16.
65% of SSA’s population lives in rural areas; Burundi
has the highest rural share (90%), while Djibouti has the
lowest (13.5%).
17.
43.3% of SSA’s population is in between the ages of
0 and 14; Uganda has the highest share at this age range
(49.3%) and Mauritius the lowest (24%).
18.
Niger has the highest participation rate of men (the percentage
of the population ages 15–64 that is economically active,
i.e., all people who supply labor for the production of
goods and services during a specified period) in the labor
force (95.8%); Namibia has the lowest (64.4%).
19.
Burundi has the highest participation rate of women in the
labor force (93.0%); Sudan has the lowest (24.1%).
20.
Côte d’Ivoire has the highest gap between labor
market participation rate of boys and girls aged 15–24
(50%); Burundi has the lowest (1.3%).
21.
Youth make up 36.9% of the working-age population, but 59.5%
of the total unemployed, which is much higher than the world’s
average for 2005 (43.7%).
22.
Youth are employed primarily in agriculture, in which they
account for 65% of the total employment.
23.
Children and young people start work early—a quarter
of children ages 5–14 are working, and among children
ages 10–14, 31% are estimated to be working.
24.
Before the age of 24, most female youth have already been
married, but in many countries they get married even earlier:
In Mozambique, 47% of females were already married before
the age of 19; in Chad 49%; in Guinea, 46%; in Mali, 50%;
in Sierra Leone, 46%; and in Niger, 62%.
25.
Parenthood starts very early. In 2003 in Mozambique, 58%
of females in the age range of 15–24 had already given
birth at least once, and 18% of males at this age were fathers.
These figures are respectively 57% and 17% in Malawi (2004);
57% and 7% in Niger (2006); 53% and 10% in Chad (2004);
47% and 15% in Uganda (2006); and 47% and 17% in Gabon (2000).
26.
In Guinea Bissau, agriculture value added is 60.3% of the
GDP; in Botswana it is 1.7%.
27.
In Madagascar, 30.6% of cropland is irrigated; in Central
African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda
the figure is less than 0.1%. On average, only 4.7% of arable
land is irrigated.
28. Mauritius has the highest life expectancy (73.2 years);
Swaziland has the lowest (40.8 years).
29. Since 2000 Rwanda has made the greatest gains in life
expectancy—about 5 years; in Lesotho life expectancy
has decreased by about 6 years.
30. The highest numbers of clinical malaria cases reported
between 1999 and 2001 were in Uganda (5.6 million); Ghana
(3.4 million); Mozambique (3.2 million); and Malawi (2.9
million).
31. In Sierra Leone 2,000 women die for every 100,000 live
births; in Mauritius 15 die per 100,000 live births. (MDG
5).
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32. In 2005 SSA was a net food importer with a negative
balance of $4.6 billion; Angola (–$805 million), Nigeria
(–$1.7 billion) and Senegal (–$700 million) were
among those with the highest food trade deficits, while
Côte d’Ivoire ($1.9 billion) and South Africa
($935 million) were among those with the highest food trade
surplus.
33. For the period 2000–06, 92% of women in Seychelles
were literate; this figure was 13% for Chad and 15% for
Niger.
34. Liberia has the lowest primary student-teacher ratio
of 19; in Mozambique the ratio is 67.
35. Cape Verde has the highest gross enrolment rate in secondary
education (80%); Niger has the lowest (11%).
36.
36% of children who start first grade reach grade five in
Madagascar; in Mauritius 99% reach this grade (MDG 2).
37. The lowest net primary enrolment ratio is found in Djibouti
(38%); the highest is in São Tomé and Principe
(96%). (MDG 2).
38. For the period 2000–06, Seychelles had the highest
adult literacy rate (92%); Mali and Burkina Faso had the
lowest (24%).
39. In South Africa, 3% of the population was below the
minimum dietary energy consumption in 2004; in Eritrea,
75% was below. (MDG 1).
40. Nearly 40% of children under the age of five are underweight
in Niger (39.9%; in Gabon the figure is 8.8%. (MDG 1).
41. South Africa has 84 mobile phones per 100 people; Ethiopia
has 1 per 100 people.
42. 17.5 per 100 people are mobile telephone subscribers
in SSA, while 1.6 per 100 are fixed line subscribers.
43.
In Eritrea, 5% of the population has access to improved
sanitation facilities; in Mauritius, 94% has such access.
(MDG 7).
44. In Liberia, nearly almost no one has internet access
(0.03 per 100); there are 34 in every 100 people in Seychelles.
(MDG 8).
45. It takes 7 days to start a business in Madagascar and
Mauritius, and 233 days in Guinea Bissau. (IDA 10).
46. The cost to start a business is 5% of GNI per capita
in Mauritius and 1,075% in Sierra Leone. (IDA 9).
47. In Chad, 23% of one-year olds are immunized against
measles; in Mauritius and the Seychelles the rate is 99%.
(MDG 4).
48. In Sierra Leone nearly three children in ten die before
the age of five (270 per 1,000 live births); in the Seychelles,
the rate is 13 per 1,000. (MDG 4, IDA 2).
49. Skilled personnel attend 6% of births in Ethiopia; in
Mauritius they attend 99% of births. (MDG 5, IDA 4).
50. HIPC Decision Points have been reached by 27 countries;
23 of them have reached their HIPC Completion Points, of
which 4 are still in the floating stage. (MDG 8).
Source:
Worldbank
