The Roosevelt Institution

African Prosperity

http://rooseveltinstitution.org/michigan/economics/africa

Indicators Datasets:

Agric Prod per Capita

Area of Arable Crops

Area of Total Surface

Births per Year

Cellular Mobile Telephone Subscribers

Cellular Subscribers per

Children Under Five Mortality Rate

CPI: Food

CPI: General

Deaths per Year

Direct Investments from Abroad

Exchange Rate

Food Production Index

Food Production Per Capita

Foreign Assets

Foreign Exchange Reserves

Foreign Liabilities

Inflation

Internet Users Total

Internet Users Per

Investment Abroad

Migration International Net per Year

Migration Net Rate per Year

Nutrition Food Deficit of Undernourished

Nutrition Minimum Energy Requirements

Population Annual Growth Rate

Share of Youth Unemployed to Total

Undernourished as a Percentage of Population

National GDP per capita ranges from wealthier states in the north and south to poorer states in the east.  These figures from the 2002 World Bank are converted to US dollars.
By 1913, European powers had divided the African continent into a patchwork that showed little regard for ethnic or linguistic boundaries.

 

 

Country Datasets (In Progress):

Zambia and Zimbabwe

Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin

Gambia, Mauritania, Senegal

Eritrea

Djibouti

Chad, Niger, Nigeria

Central African republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo, Gabon

Angola, Lesotho, Mozambique, South Africa

Egypt, Morocco

Liberia, Mali, Sierra Leone

Malawi, Swaziland

Namibia, Botswana

Tanzania, Ethiopia, Rwanda

Togo, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau