The African Development Bank projects faster GDP growth in North Africa at 4.4 percent in 2019 and 4.3 percent in 2020. That will be higher than the African average, but lower than in East Africa, the best performing region. Growth is expected to be much stronger in Egypt and Mauritania, to improve...

The Annual Food Crops Inflation declined 3.6 percent for the year ending March 2019 compared to 6.3 percent recorded in March 2018. The drivers of changes were Tangerines decline to(1.6) percent for the year ending March 2019 compared to 7.9 percent registered similar month of the previous year....

The All Groups CPI was 110.79 in the month of March 2019, compared with 110.75 in the month of February 2019. The monthly change, March 2019 compared to February 2019, was a decrease of 0.04 percent (1.03 index points). This is compared to a monthly of 1.03 percent in the previous month of February...

The Southern Africa economic Outlook reviews macroeconomic conditions in the 13 countries comprising the African Development Bank’s Southern Africa region. The first part highlights growth trends and provides projections for 2019 and 2020 by examining the main drivers of growth based on prevailing...

East Africa comprises 13 countries that are diverse in many aspects (box 1). In 2018, real GDP in the region grew by an estimated 5.7 percent, slightly less than the 5.9 percent in 2017 and the highest among African regions (figure 1). Economic growth is projected to remain strong, at 5.9 percent...

In 2018, the GDP growth rate in Central Africa (which includes Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon) accelerated slightly, to 2.2 percent from 1.1 percent in 2017, but remained below the African average of 3.5 ...

West Africa’s 15 economies are diverse across many dimensions of development. In 2018, income per capita ranged from $452 in Niger to $3,678 in Cabo Verde. Nine countries saw growth of at least 5.0 percent in 2017 and 2018, and five have been growing at that rate since 2014–16. While growth in...