Major New Report on the Status and Trends Relating to African ...
Africa Overview: Development news, research, data - World Bank
However, recovery remains fragile due to uncertain global economic conditions, growing debt service payments, frequent climate-related disasters, and escalating ...
Africa faces disproportionate burden from climate change and ...
Between 1970 and 2021, Africa accounted for 35% of weather, climate, and water-related fatalities. Yet only 40% of the African population has ...
African Migration Trends to Watch in 2024
The largest migration in Africa still takes place within countries—mostly circular in nature from rural to urban settings. As sustainable rural ...
With these outturns, Africa will remain the second-fastest growing region globally, with 40 countries set to achieve post higher growth rates relative to 2023 ...
Economic Development in Africa Report 2023 | UNCTAD
With the world's youngest and fastest-growing population (about 60% of Africans are under the age of 25), the continent is emerging as a magnet for consumer ...
Africa: Trends to watch in 2024
2023 saw high inflation become the new normal across the continent, driving up living costs. African nations are suffering some of the highest ...
Foresight Africa 2023 - Brookings Institution
Fragility in parts of the continent and adverse weather conditions are also key concerns. With these challenges, it is easy to be pessimistic about Africa's ...
Political Activism Rising. As African publics become increasingly urbanized and better connected, they are likely to engage in more protest activity during the ...
African Migration Trends to Watch in 2023
African migration has been on a steady upward trajectory for the past two decades. The record level of over 40 million African migrants ...
African Futures 2035: Key Trends
Africa is undergoing several major transitions, including demographic, economic, technological, urban and so- cio-political. These transitions are all connected ...
U.S. Loses Soft Power Edge in Africa - Gallup News
Gallup World Poll data from Africa in 2023 show that the U.S. has lost its place as the most influential global power on the continent, ...
Key findings – Africa Energy Outlook 2022 – Analysis - IEA
The overlapping crises are affecting many parts of Africa's energy systems, including reversing positive trends in improving access to modern energy, with 4% ...
Unpacking the implications of future trends for security in Africa
One in four people on the planet will be African, the continent's demographic structure will still have a stubbornly broad base with a high dependency ratio, ...
State and Trends in Adaptation Report 2022
State and Trends in Adaptation 2022 Report: Africa (Volume 2) expands on the in-depth analyses provided in State and Trends in Adaptation 2021.
South Africa Overview: Development news, research ... - World Bank
Structural challenges and weak growth have undermined progress in reducing poverty, heightened by the COVID-19 pandemic. The achievement of progress in ...
Democratic Trends in Africa in Four Charts | Freedom House
In fact, sub-Saharan Africa led the world in both positive and negative movement: of the 12 largest declines globally, seven were in sub-Saharan ...
Africa's Future: Youth and the Data Defining Their Lives | PRB
By 2030, young Africans are expected to make up 42 percent of the world's youth and account for 75 percent of the those under age 35 in Africa.
Six Megatrends That Are Changing Africa | BCG
If today's demographic trends continue, almost half of all people under 18—about 40%—will have been born and raised in Africa. As digital ...
More frequent and intense extreme weather and climate- related events are creating new and increasing risks everywhere. But Africa is especially vulnerable. In ...
Rethinking U.S. Africa Policy Amid Changing Geopolitical Realities
Since 2020, Africa has seen more political unrest, violent extremism, and democratic reversals than any other region in the world.