
Forecasting the
future of Africa




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How to use this site
This website provides integrated forecasts of Africa’s development prospects and potential. It uses eight sectoral and a combined scenarios to explore the future for each African country to 2043, the end of the third ten-year implementation plan of the African Union's Agenda 2063. Future prospects are discussed in greater detail in 16 themes ranging from agriculture to governance.
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AUDA-NEPAD
We partner and support AUDA-NEPAD through foresight planning and scenario-building across Africa to deliver monitoring, evaluation, and evidence-based policy development that strengthens and aligns development forecasting and analytic capabilities with member states and regional institutions to pursue the Agenda 2063 goals and targets.
All geographies in Africa
Countries
The Current Path forecast for each of 54 countries and an ambitious positive scenario on Demographics and Health, Agriculture, Education, Manufacturing, AfCFTA, Large Infrastructure and Leapfrogging, Financial Flows, and Governance, and a combined scenario.
Select from the drop-down menu or click on a country.
- Algeria
- Angola
- Benin
- Botswana
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Cape Verde
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Comoros
- Côte d'Ivoire
- DR Congo
- Djibouti
- Egypt
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Kenya
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Republic of the Congo
- Rwanda
- São Tomé and Príncipe
- Senegal
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Sudan
- Sudan
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Tunisia
- Uganda
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Regions
The Current Path forecast for Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, and North Africa, and an ambitious positive scenario on Demographics and Health, Agriculture, Education, Manufacturing, AfCFTA, Large Infrastructure and Leapfrogging, Financial Flows, and Governance, and a combined scenario.
Select from the drop-down menu or click on a region.
- North Africa
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Africa
Regional Economic Communities
The Current Path forecast for key Regional Economic Communities, and an ambitious positive scenario on Demographics and Health, Agriculture, Education, Manufacturing, AfCFTA, Large Infrastructure and Leapfrogging, Financial Flows, and Governance, and a combined scenario.
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- AMU
- CEN-SAD
- COMESA
- EAC
- ECOWAS
- ECCAS
- IGAD
- SADC
- ECOWAS
Income groups
The Current Path forecasts for the World Bank country income groups, and an ambitious positive scenario on Demographics and Health, Agriculture, Education, Manufacturing, AfCFTA, Large Infrastructure and Leapfrogging, Financial Flows, and Governance, and a combined scenario.
Select from the drop-down menu or click on a country income group.
- Low-income Africa
- Lower middle-income Africa
- Upper middle-income Africa
- High-income Africa
Africa's Current Path, 16 thematic futures and a Combined Agenda 2063 scenario
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