Africa - Africa Development Indicators (ADI) 2008

Africa's 200 million youth comprise 60 percent of the unemployed, according to the World Bank's flagship report on Africa. Countries must undertake key interventions to draw their youngest and brightest demographic into the labor force.

Data in Africa Development Indicators 2008/09 have been assembled from a variety of sources to present a broad picture of development across Africa. Data are presented from 1965 to 2006 for 53 African countries and 5 regional country groups, arranged in separate tables or matrices for more than 450 indicators of development covering basic indicators; national accounts; balance of payments; inflation; Millennium Development Goals; Paris Declaration indicators; private sector development; trade; infrastructure; human development; rural development and agriculture; environment and climate change; labor, migration and population; HIV/AIDS; malaria; capable states and partnerships; governance and polity; and household welfare. A few macro indicators have provisional data for 2007 while others indicators have data for 2007-2009.

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