Africa's economy in figures

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Sao Tome and Principe
Sao Tome and Principe
- Credit rating: Not rated
- GDP, billion US dollars, 2019: 0.43
Seychelles
Seychelles
- Credit rating: B, Fitch 18.12.2020
- GDP, billion US dollars, 2019: 1.7
Mauritius
Mauritius
- Credit rating: Baa2, Moodys 04.03.2021
- GDP, billion US dollars, 2019: 14.18

Africa is:

17%

of the world population

30%

of the world's minerals

6 of 10

world's fast-growing economies

The fastest rate of

urbanization

in the world

Sources of data:

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/02/africa-global-growth-economics-worldwide-gdp/
http://www.oecd.org/africa-urbanisation/
https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/NGDP_RPCH@WEO/OEMDC/ADVEC/WEOWORLD/ETH/CHN/RWA/MMR/BEN/EGY/BGD/SSD/GUY/VNM/TKM/CIV
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/04/22/populations-skew-older-in-some-of-the-countries-hit-hard-
https://www.fdiintelligence.com/article/78738by-covid-19/#:~:text=average%20life%20expectancies.-,Africa,median%20ages%20are%20in%20Africa
https://qz.com/africa/1486764/how-big-is-africas-middle-class/