Facts in Q&A format

Nigeria (8% of its GDP), Botswana (10%) and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (11.4%) have the lowest external debt, according to the International Monetary Fund. ...

According to the World Bank, Sierra Leone relies most heavily on agriculture, which made up 54.3% of the country's GDP in 2019. ...

Farming is key for the majority of African economies and accounts for at least 15% of the region’s GDP. ...

Nigeria was the biggest yam producer in the world in 2019, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, with an output of 50 million tonnes. More: Does Nigeria have the biggest yam market in the world? ...

Foreign direct investment (FDI) to West Africa fell 21% to US$11 billion in 2019. This was largely due to the steep decline in investment in Nigeria, after consecutive increases in 2017 and 2018. Inward FDI to Nigeria almost halved, to $3.3 billion in 2019 due to a slowdown in investment in the oil ...

Nigeria, South Africa and Egypt were considered Africa’s largest economies in 2021 based on their gross domestic product. ...

Ethiopia’s real gross domestic product (GDP) growth has been, on average, 9.5% per year in the ten years from 2010 to 2019. This is not only the highest in Africa. It is the highest in the world, according to the International Monetary Fund’s World Economic Outlook database. According to the ...

According to the International Monetary Fund, Sub-Saharan Africa's general government gross debt amounted to 57.8% of its GDP in 2021. ...

Mozambique (105.6% of its GDP), Zimbabwe (88.9%) and Angola (79.3%) have the highest debt, according to the International Monetary Fund. ...