Africa is already home to around a billion people and will soon have the largest working-age population of any region in the world. The continent’s real economic growth over the past decade has ...

A lmost every country in the world has seen fertility rates decline over the past few decades, but one region's birth rates are still so high that it is expected to provide more than half the global ...

IMF lifts Sub-Saharan Africa’s 2025 growth forecast to 4.0 %, a 0.2-point bump that adds an estimated US$3.6 billion in real GDP versus April. • Revisions driven by a brighter global outlook (3.0 % ...

The research team’s methods, and a few demonstrations of the map’s capabilities, are published in the journal Nature Communications. The map is available for public use through open access. It is the ...

Scientists map genetic diversity of sub-Saharan Africa By Kate Kelland December 3, 201410:59 PM PSTUpdated December 3, 2014 ...

A little-known element is shedding light on the transatlantic slave trade. Researchers have assembled a map of strontium, a naturally occurring element, across sub-Saharan Africa.

World Bank director of infrastructure in Western and central Africa Franz Drees-Gross stated: “Of the 680 million people globally without electricity access, 570 million live in sub-Saharan Africa.

Around 200 contributors have co-produced the most comprehensive dataset yet to assess the effect of humans on sub-Saharan Africa’s 45,000 plant species and 5,400 vertebrate species. The project ...

Scientists have made the most comprehensive map yet of African genetic variation and say it should help them learn more about the role genes play in diseases such as malaria, haemorrhagic fever ...