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Africa’s top five fastest growing economies, which are projected to grow by more than 5.5% on average in 2023-2024, are Rwanda (7.9%), Côte d'Ivoire (7.1%), Benin (6.4%), Ethiopia (6.0%), and Tanzania (5.6%). ...

The World Bank defines literacy as the “percentage of the population ages 15 and older that can, with understanding, both read and write a short simple statement on everyday life”. In 2021, Zimbabwe's literacy rate stood at 90%. ...

Between 2009 and 2018, cancer cases in Zimbabwe almost doubled, according to the national cancer registry. This has been due to drivers such as behavioural risk factors for cancer and poor access to screening, treatment and palliative care. According to the latest available statistics from the World...

Nigeria recorded the highest number of malaria deaths across the world in 2021, according to the latest World Malaria Report. According to the report, Nigeria accounted for 31% of the 619,000 deaths recorded worldwide (191,890 deaths), of which Africa recorded a total of 599,000 deaths during this p...

In 2021, an estimated 24.6 million people in Africa were living with HIV. ...

According to the latest crime statistics, 319 children were murdered in South Africa between October 2022 and December 2022, and a further 488 survived attempted murder. A further 2,039 children were victims of physical assault. ...

According to the latest crime statistics for the third quarter of 2022/23, the Eastern Cape has the highest murder rate in the country at 22.5 per 100,000 people. This has significantly overtaken the murder rate in KwaZulu Natal. In the same period last year, the two provinces were level at 15 per 1...

According to the latest data, 7,555 murders were recorded from October to December 2022. Of these, 1, 101 were women and 6,135 were men. This means that on average of 12 women and 67 men are murdered every day in South Africa. ...

As of 12 December 2022, Lagos had the largest number of Covid-19 cases with 104,204 lab-confirmed cases. ...