GDP per capita is a critical measure used to assess the economic well-being of individuals in a country, as it represents the ...

On these core issues for the continent’s development, the chairman of the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) – a pan-African think tank – calls for much bigger investment in agriculture and training ...

Many African countries have transitioned from low-income to middle-income status based on Gross National Income (GNI) per ...

Eighteen of the poorest countries by GDP per capita are in Africa. That is not surprising given the famine and war that have racked the continent for the better part of the last four decades.

Threats by US President Donald Trump to cut funding to South Africa has sent the rand tumbling—making an already undervalued ...

food insecurity is remarkably high compared to other sub-Saharan African countries. The poorest country in Asia is Yemen, with a GDP per capita of $2,000. However, years of ongoing conflicts make ...

Many people and firms are disconnected — from one another and from economic opportunity. African households face higher costs relative to their per capita GDP than households in other regions.

Recently, the National Bureau of Statistics indicated that it would release the results of the newly rebased GDP and CP1 by ...

A new Government of National Unity (GNU) has been in place since June 2024, which the markets have welcomed. The GNU faces difficult challenges: declining GDP per capita, high unemployment, poverty ...