Country cards

Fifty-four African country cards, one per UN member state, in one sortable table: the growth identity, population and output, debt and data quality, as CSV or JSON.

Fifty-four UN-member African states, one card each. The table opens sorted by population, largest first; click any column heading to sort by it, and click a name for the full card. GDP is the IMF’s April 2026 estimate for 2025; population and working-age growth are UN World Population Prospects 2024; SPI is the World Bank’s Statistical Performance Indicators score.

Download all 54 cards: CSV · JSON. Both carry every field on every card under the dotted names the chapters quote, one row or record per country; the JSON also carries, for each country, the release each number came from. Blanks are empty cells in the CSV and null in the JSON, and are never zeros. The chapters’ data exercises are written against these two files.

Last refreshed. The numbers below, and on the cards behind them, were last refreshed on 25 October 2026. Every card lists the day each release behind it was last pulled, and the About the data page lists them all in one table.

Nulls. A blank on a card means not yet fetched, a series not yet on the card or one that does not exist for that country, and never zero. Nothing on these pages substitutes a zero for a missing number: an unfilled field says so in words, and an unfilled term in the identity bar is drawn hatched rather than flat. Still to come on the cards are the largest-city figures and the nightlights exhibit.

The confidence flag. High means a census within fifteen years, an SPI score of 70 or better and a labour-force survey within five years. One failure is medium; two or more failures, or a census before 2000, is low. When one of the three inputs is itself missing the flag is left uncomputed rather than counted as a failure, which is why 3 of the 54 read “not yet computable” below. The rule, and the reasons to distrust it, are on the About the data page. Current standing: 11 high, 20 medium, 20 low, 3 not yet computable.

Country	ISO3	Region	Population 2024 (m)	GDP ($bn)	GDP per capita ($)	Working-age growth (%/yr)	SPI	Confidence
Nigeria	NGA	West Africa	232.7	290.5	1,223	+2.90	69.1	Confidence: low
Ethiopia	ETH	East Africa	132.1	109.1	987	+3.46	61.7	Confidence: low
Egypt	EGY	North Africa	116.5	364.6	3,379	+1.96	78.1	Confidence: high
Democratic Republic of the Congo	COD	Central Africa	109.3	92.8	871	+3.38	46.3	Confidence: low
Tanzania	TZA	East Africa	68.6	87.3	1,292	+3.55	68.2	Confidence: medium
South Africa	ZAF	Southern Africa	64.0	427.1	6,769	+1.61	81.3	Confidence: high
Kenya	KEN	East Africa	56.4	136.5	2,558	+2.94	73.4	Confidence: high
Sudan	SDN	East Africa	50.4	39.7	788	+3.20	42.1	Confidence: low
Uganda	UGA	East Africa	50.0	66.0	1,375	+4.17	68.7	Confidence: medium
Algeria	DZA	North Africa	46.8	285.7	6,047	+1.28	55.2	Confidence: medium
Morocco	MAR	North Africa	38.1	182.6	4,842	+1.10	73.1	Confidence: high
Angola	AGO	Southern Africa	37.9	141.7	3,614	+3.53	58.2	Confidence: medium
Mozambique	MOZ	Southern Africa	34.6	22.3	623	+3.25	66.7	Confidence: medium
Ghana	GHA	West Africa	34.4	114.7	3,271	+2.52	65.7	Confidence: medium
Madagascar	MDG	East Africa	32.0	19.6	622	+3.03	57.5	Confidence: low
Côte d'Ivoire	CIV	West Africa	31.9	98.9	3,006	+2.88	70.2	Confidence: medium
Cameroon	CMR	Central Africa	29.1	59.3	1,984	+3.19	66.0	Confidence: low
Niger	NER	West Africa	27.0	21.8	750	+4.01	70.5	Confidence: high
Mali	MLI	West Africa	24.5	30.1	1,190	+3.54	66.5	Confidence: medium
Burkina Faso	BFA	West Africa	23.5	27.1	1,126	+3.31	76.4	Confidence: high
Malawi	MWI	Southern Africa	21.7	15.0	625	+3.75	64.3	Confidence: low
Zambia	ZMB	Southern Africa	21.3	28.9	1,318	+3.70	64.2	Confidence: medium
Chad	TCD	Central Africa	20.3	22.1	1,165	+4.14	53.6	Confidence: low
Somalia	SOM	East Africa	19.0	13.0	764	+3.79	51.7	Confidence: low
Senegal	SEN	West Africa	18.5	37.1	1,936	+3.51	81.4	Confidence: high
Zimbabwe	ZWE	Southern Africa	16.6	53.5	3,080	+2.08	66.8	Confidence: medium
Guinea	GIN	West Africa	14.8	27.2	1,722	+3.06	49.9	Confidence: low
Benin	BEN	West Africa	14.5	24.4	1,634	+3.10	71.0	Confidence: high
Rwanda	RWA	East Africa	14.3	16.0	1,128	+2.83	72.6	Confidence: high
Burundi	BDI	Central Africa	14.0	6.9	478	+2.94	45.2	Confidence: low
Tunisia	TUN	North Africa	12.3	57.6	4,664	+0.53	75.5	Confidence: high
South Sudan	SSD	East Africa	11.9	5.7	470	+1.17	27.1	Confidence: not yet computable
Togo	TGO	West Africa	9.5	11.9	1,217	+2.74	66.6	Confidence: medium
Sierra Leone	SLE	West Africa	8.6	7.7	874	+3.05	59.9	Confidence: low
Libya	LBY	North Africa	7.4	44.7	5,999	+1.88	34.8	Confidence: low
Republic of the Congo	COG	Central Africa	6.3	15.6	2,404	+2.60	38.9	Confidence: low
Liberia	LBR	West Africa	5.6	5.2	910	+2.61	59.1	Confidence: low
Central African Republic	CAF	Central Africa	5.3	3.2	579	+1.27	46.8	Confidence: not yet computable
Mauritania	MRT	North Africa	5.2	12.3	2,655	+3.37	58.4	Confidence: medium
Eritrea	ERI	East Africa	3.5	2.1	689	+1.98	not yet fetched	Confidence: not yet computable
Namibia	NAM	Southern Africa	3.0	14.8	4,862	+2.64	55.7	Confidence: low
The Gambia	GMB	West Africa	2.8	2.6	904	+3.03	67.0	Confidence: low
Gabon	GAB	Central Africa	2.5	21.6	9,376	+2.55	45.5	Confidence: medium
Botswana	BWA	Southern Africa	2.5	19.5	7,662	+1.78	64.2	Confidence: medium
Lesotho	LSO	Southern Africa	2.3	2.9	1,206	+1.53	58.2	Confidence: medium
Guinea-Bissau	GNB	West Africa	2.2	2.6	1,311	+2.97	47.5	Confidence: low
Equatorial Guinea	GNQ	Central Africa	1.9	12.5	7,628	+3.17	32.1	Confidence: low
Mauritius	MUS	East Africa	1.3	16.1	12,977	-0.24	80.4	Confidence: high
Eswatini	SWZ	Southern Africa	1.2	5.2	4,442	+1.39	61.0	Confidence: medium
Djibouti	DJI	East Africa	1.2	4.4	4,145	+2.28	38.1	Confidence: medium
Comoros	COM	East Africa	0.9	1.6	1,769	+2.46	50.5	Confidence: medium
Cabo Verde	CPV	West Africa	0.5	3.1	5,995	+0.52	59.9	Confidence: medium
São Tomé and Príncipe	STP	Central Africa	0.2	1.0	4,085	+2.51	53.0	Confidence: low
Seychelles	SYC	East Africa	0.1	2.3	18,479	+2.24	64.5	Confidence: medium