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Africa | Emerging Markets Regional Review
African economies are well on their way to transforming the region’s status from a frontier to an emerging market. The IMF predicts Africa will grow by 5.8% in 2015, up from 5.1% this year, with Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Mozambique projected to growth over 8%.
USD 0.15 billion (2018)
International Monetary Fund (IMF), data retrieved October 2019
USD 10.9 billion (2018, estimate)
Intl$ 30.2 billion (2018, estimate)
| 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 |
| 3.3% | 3.1% | 4.1% | 13.6% | 0.1% | 8.8% | 5.8% |
| 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017* | 2019* | ||
| 6.9% | 1.8% | -6.4% | -3.1% | 3.1% |
*Estimate
| 1980 | 1990 | 2000 | 2010 | 2019* |
| 0.02% | 0.02% | 0.02% | 0.03% | 0.02% |
*Estimate
(2018 estimate)
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017* | 2018* | 2019* |
| 4.8% | -1.6% | -0.9% | 4% | 3% |
*Estimate
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
*Estimate
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017* | 2018* | 2019* |
| 43.9% | 51.5% | 49.8% | 48.3% | 44.7% |
*Estimate
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017* | 2018* | 2019* |
| -4.4% | -1.9% | -0.2% | 1.9% | 0.3% |
*Estimate
Standard & Poor's: N/A
Moody's: N/A
Standard & Poor's / Moody's
| 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
-7.8% (2017 estimate)
29.8% (2015)
0.02% (2015)
0.006% (2013)
Oil, livestock, cotton, sesame, gum arabic, shea butter
Machinery and transportation equipment, industrial goods, foodstuffs, textiles
US 58.5%, India 13.3%, Japan 11.3%, China 4.1% (2015)
France 16.5%, China 14.2%, Cameroon 11%, US 6.4%, India 6%, Belgium 5.7%, Italy 4.8% (2015)
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
| USD 520 million | USD -676 million | USD 600 million |
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
N/A
N/A
Economies are ranked on their ease of doing business. A high ease of doing business ranking means the regulatory environment is more conducive to the starting and operation of a local firm.
Overall ranking: 180 out of 190 countries (2016)
Subcategories:
Starting a business: 182 out of 190 countries
Enforcing Contracts: 154 out of 190 countries
Registering Property: 157 out of 190 countries
Getting credit: 139 out of 190 countries
Protecting investors: 158 out of 190 countries
Trading across border: 171 out of 190 countries
Paying Taxes: 189 out of 190 countries
Dealing with Construction Permits: 133 out of 190 countries
Getting Electricity: 179 out of 190 countries
Resolving Insolvency: 146 out of 190 countries
136 out of 138 countries
(2016-2017)
Ranking: 164 / Score: 46.33 (Repressed) (2017)
(100=totally free 0=totally repressed)
Cooperation Financiere en Afrique Centrale francs (XAF)
French (official), Arabic (official), Sara (in south), more than 120 different languages and dialects
Muslim 58.4%, Catholic 18.5%, Protestant 16.1%, animist 4%, other 0.5%, none 2.4% (2009 est.)
| 1990 | 2000 | 2010* | 2016* | 2021* |
| 5.648 million | 7.478 million | 10.223 million | 11.855 million | 13.45 million |
*Estimate
| 1960 | 1980 | 2000 | 2015 |
| 7% | 19% | 22% | 23% |
Total population: 40.2%
Male: 48.5%
Female: 31.9% (2015 est.)
(age 15 and over can read and write French or Arabic)
29.7% (2011)
43.3 (2011)
(0=perfect equality, 100=absolute inequality)
Political Rights: 7
Civil Liberties: 6 (2017)
(1 represents the most free, 7 the least free rating)
Fixed 0.13% Mobile 40.17% (2015)
(fixed-telephone subscribers and mobile-cellular subscribers)