Forecasting on Africa that is |

Translating Africa's potential into prosperity

This website provides integrated forecasts of Africa’s development prospects and potential. Prospects cover 14 sectors for each African country, region, regional economic community and country income groups within the timeline of the African Union’s Agenda 2063. Insights are grounded in academic literature, using benchmarks to deliver ambitious but realistic forecasts that are regularly updated.

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All geographies in Africa

Countries

The Current Path forecast for each of 54 countries and an ambitious positive scenario on stability, demographics, agriculture, health/WaSH, education, manufacturing/transfers, free trade, leapfrogging, financial flows, major infrastructure, governance and a Combined Agenda 2063 scenario.

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  • 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, Southern, West, Central, East and North Africa, and an ambitious positive scenario on stability, demographics, agriculture, health/WaSH, education, manufacturing/transfers, free trade, leapfrogging, financial flows, major infrastructure, governance and a Combined Agenda 2063 scenario.

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  • Central Africa
  • East Africa
  • West Africa/ECOWAS
  • North Africa
  • Southern Africa
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Africa

Regional Economic Communities

The Current Path forecast for key Regional Economic Communities, and an ambitious positive scenario on stability, demographics, agriculture, health/WaSH, education, manufacturing/transfers, free trade, leapfrogging, financial flows, major infrastructure, governance and a Combined Agenda 2063 scenario.

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  • AMU
  • CEN-SAD
  • COMESA
  • EAC
  • ECCAS
  • IGAD
  • SADC
  • West Africa/ECOWAS

Income groups

The Current Path forecasts for the World Bank country income groups, and an ambitious positive scenario on stability, demographics, agriculture, health/WaSH, education, manufacturing/transfers, free trade, leapfrogging, financial flows, major infrastructure, governance and a Combined Agenda 2063 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, 14 thematic futures and a Combined Agenda 2063 scenario

Click on each icon to access thematic futures insight.

Impact on changes on levels of extreme poverty, economic size, GDP per capita, life expectancy, infant mortality, etc.