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Botswana

Botswana has enjoyed sustained economic growth throughout much of its post-independence years. It currently has the fourth largest economy among upper middle-income African countries, with a value of US$23 billion in 2019.

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Senegal

The services sector remains the main contributor to GDP in Senegal, while agriculture is the most dynamic engine of economic growth.

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Financial Flows

Foreign direct investment is particularly important for its potential to transfer knowledge and technology, create jobs, boost overall productivity, enhance competitiveness and entrepreneurship, and ultimately eradicate poverty through economic growth and development

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Education

Better education is fundamental to economic development. Investment in education increase the talent in the labour pool, raise productivity and boost economic growth and incomes.

Featured Blog Post

Africa Needs More and Cheaper Debt

The primary responsibility to unlock more finance and cheaper debt lies with Africans, but the international community must help.

Climate Change, Energy | 20 September 2023

Setting a new green growth agenda

Governance | 13 September 2023

Unlocking Africa’s treasure chest

Africa in the World | 05 September 2023

BRICS+ and the future of the US dollar

Work/Jobs | 01 September 2023

Ending Poverty in Our Lifetime?

Governance | 30 August 2023

Can Africa end military coups?

Governance | 15 August 2023

Inclusive talks could help bring sustainable peace to Ethiopia

Climate Change, Energy | 09 August 2023

Building disaster resilience in African cities: the need for a holistic approach

Financial Flows | 02 August 2023

Exchange rate pressures take a toll on sub-Saharan Africa

About this site

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.

Strategic partner

The Partners' common objective is to facilitate foresight planning and scenario-building across Africa to support monitoring, evaluation, and evidence-based policy development. ‘Building and Disseminating Knowledge for Agenda 2063’ to strengthen and align development forecasting and analytic capabilities in AUDA-NEPAD, relevant member states, and regional institutions; and generate context-specific foresight and knowledge products as direct inputs to an evidence-based determination of appropriate development policy and investment choices in pursuit of 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, agriculture, health/WaSH, education, manufacturing/transfers, AfCFTA, leapfrogging, financial flows, large infrastructure, governance and a Combined Agenda 2063 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, Southern, West, Central, East and North Africa, and an ambitious positive scenario on demographics, agriculture, health/WaSH, education, manufacturing/transfers, AfCFTA, leapfrogging, financial flows, large infrastructure, governance and a Combined Agenda 2063 scenario.

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ECOWAS

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, agriculture, health/WaSH, education, manufacturing/transfers, AfCFTA, leapfrogging, financial flows, large infrastructure, governance and a Combined Agenda 2063 scenario.

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CEN-SAD

COMESA

ECCAS

IGAD

SADC

ECOWAS

Income groups

The Current Path forecasts for the World Bank country income groups, and an ambitious positive scenario on demographics, agriculture, health/WaSH, education, manufacturing/transfers, AfCFTA, leapfrogging, financial flows, large infrastructure, governance and a Combined Agenda 2063 scenario.

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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 of deepening of democracy on development outcomes.

Governance

Reducing in total fertility rate through improvements in contraception use, and maternal and child healthcare.

Demographics

Improvements in crop yields and irrigated land where reasonable, calorie demand multiplier and reduced food waste/loss.

Agriculture

Investment in prevention and treatment of communicable diseases through more basic infrastructure and non-communicable diseases such as diabetes. Specifically, large reductions in incidence of HIV/AIDS and malaria.

Health/WaSH

Improved throughput rates in primary, secondary and tertiary education; eventual gender parity; better quality of education; more vocational at secondary, and science and engineering students.

Education

A more effective and progressive tax system that allows increased investment in manufacturing, research and development, export promotion and better business regulation. Increase in government-to-household welfare transfers to temper negative effects.

Manufacturing/
Transfers

Full implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area by 2034.

Free Trade

Rapid roll-out of ICT and renewable energy technology that improves electricity access and government effectiveness, and leads to more rapid formalization of informal sector.