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Africa Development Indicators (ADI) 2008/09 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.

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This site is dedicated to gathering and presenting information and resources related to statistics on Africa. Information is collected from within the World Bank and from many other sources identified by World Bank staff.

The Statistics site features data from Africa Development Indicators, the most detailed collection of development data on Africa, including data from over 50 African countries and more than 500 development indicators. For more details, please see Overview.

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