Africa Development Indicators: Data on Africa, for Africa ESDS December 1, 2008.

Africa Development Indicators:Data on Africa, for Africa

ESDS

December 1, 2008

Africa Development Indicators

Africa Development Indicators

Annual publication Most comprehensive database on Africa More than 1,400 variables Long time series; some variables go back to 1965 Data sources: Offices of National Statistics, WB,

IMF, UN System, Surveys, Doing Business, Investment Climate Assessment, WB’s Country Policy and Institutional Assessment, etc

Hands on: Some questions ADI can answer (1)

Example: What countries were the best and worst performers in children under-five mortality percentage change between 1990 and 2004?

Country Name1990 (per

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(1990-2004)Bottom 8Botswana 58 116 100.0Zimbabwe 80 129 61.3Swaziland 110 156.4 42.2Cote d Ivoire 157 193.6 23.3Kenya 97 119.5 23.2Equatorial Guinea 170 204 20.0Rwanda 173 203 17.3Central African Republic 168 193 14.9Top 8Cape Verde 60 36.4 -39.3Comoros 120 70 -41.7Algeria 69 40 -42.0Eritrea 147 82 -44.2Tunisia 52 25.4 -51.2Morocco 89 42.8 -51.9Libya 41 19.6 -52.2Egypt. Arab Rep. 104 36.2 -65.2

Hands on: Some questions ADI can answer (2)

• Q: Is there a relationship between cost to start a business and domestic investment as share of GDP?

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Hands on: Some questions ADI can answer (3)

• Q: What was the official current transfers receipts (USD, thousands) of Ethiopia overtime?

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Hands on: Some questions ADI can answer (4)

Hands on: Some questions ADI can answer (5)

• What is the GDP per capita of countries whose agriculture share of GDP is in between 25% and 50% and annual exports of agriculture goods amount at least $100m?

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Benin 313.31

Burkina Faso 230.32

Cameroon 678.16

Ethiopia 122.01

Ghana 250.55

Malawi 151.45

Mali 207.99

Sudan 374.74

Tanzania 261.18

Togo 247.80

Uganda 243.80

Hands on: Some questions ADI can answer (5)

Hands on: Some questions ADI can answer (5)

Facts you may not have known about AfricaAll data refer to Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in 2006, unless otherwise stated

• In 2000–2006 the average GDP per capita growth in SSA was 2.0%, up from –0.7% in 1990–1999.

• 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.

• The economies of South Africa and Nigeria comprised 56% of SSA’s GDP.

• Equatorial Guinea has the highest GDP per capita ($7,470); the Democratic Republic of Congo has the lowest ($91).

Facts you may not have known about AfricaAll data refer to Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in 2006, unless otherwise stated

• 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%).

• 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.

• 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%.

• Burundi has the highest participation rate of women in the labor force (93.0%); Sudan has the lowest (24.1%).

Thank you!

Valentina Kalk

Manager, Electronic Development

Office of the Publisher, The World Bank

[email protected]