Enrichment
Africa
Africa is a continent.
Key facts
- Number of countries: 54
- Number of regions: 5
- Land area: 29,652,400 km²
- Population: 1,424,830,608
Business
- Central government debt: 61.30 % of GDP
- Expense: 19.79 % of GDP
- Gdp: 2,964,710,000,000.00 current US$
- Inflation: 753.51 annual %
- Self-employed: 64.92 % of total employment
- Tax revenue: 14.37 % of GDP
- Unemployment: 9.13 % of total labor force
- Vulnerable employment: 62.14 % of total employment
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Politics
- Armed forces personnel: 3,205,000
- Democracy score: 214.45
- Military expenditure: 2.29 % of GDP
- Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments: 24.11 %
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Countries historical armed forces personnel in Africa
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Environment
- Agricultural land: 11,566,600.00 km²
- Alternative and nuclear energy: 2.60 % of total energy use
- Carbon dioxide emissions (co2): 1,274,090.00 kt
- Electricity production from coal sources: 12.43 % of total
- Electricity production from natural gas sources: 23.04 % of total
- Electricity production from hydroelectric sources: 35.73 % of total
- Electricity production from nuclear sources: 0.18 % of total
- Electricity production from oil sources: 24.15 % of total
- Electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric: 3.47 % of total
- Net energy imports: -75.72 % of energy use
- Fertility rate: 4.04 births per woman
- Forest area: 6,318,630 km²
- Fossil fuel energy consumption: 34.76 % of total
- Other greenhouse gas emissions, hfc, pfc and sf6: 154,193.00 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent
- Median age: 16.10 years
- Methane emissions: 1,126,780.00 kt of CO2 equivalent
- Nitrous oxide emissions: 538,891.00 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent
- Female population: 713,356,008
- Male population: 711,474,595
- Renewable energy consumption: 56.44 % of total final energy consumption
- Rural land area: 29,337,100.00 km²
- Rural population: 791,116,713
- Urban land area: 153,815.00 km²
- Urban population: 633,713,895
- Urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters : 2.77 % of total population
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Countries in Africa
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Countries historical alternative and nuclear energy in Africa
Countries historical carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) in Africa
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Health
- Birth rate: 30.48 per 1,000 people
- Death rate: 8.50 per 1,000 people
- Health expenditure per capita: 121.80 current US$
- Health expenditure: 5.39 % of GDP
- Incidence of hiv: 0.99 per 1,000 uninfected population
- Hospital beds: 1.35 per 1,000 people
- Life expectancy at birth: 63 years
- Suicide mortality rate: 8.85 per 100,000 population
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Source
This dashboard is based on data from: World Bank
Updated: 1 day ago
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