The African Statistical Yearbook 2020

By AfDB, AUC and ECA

Date: 18 January 2021

The 11th African Statistical Yearbook has been jointly published by the African Development Bank African Union and the UN Economic Commission for Africa.

The Yearbook series is a result of joint efforts by major African regional organizations to set up a joint data collection mechanism of socioeconomic data on African countries as well as the development of a common harmonized database.

The Joint African Statistical Yearbook is meant to break with the practices of the past where each regional or subregional organization was publishing statistical data on African countries of the continent in an inefficient way, leading to duplication of efforts, inefficient use of scarce resources, increased burden on countries and sending different signals to users involved in tracking development efforts on the continent. It is expected that the joint collection and sharing of data between regional institutions will promote wider use of country data, reduce costs and significantly improve the quality of the data and lead to better monitoring of development initiatives on the continent.

The yearbook is available to download @ https://www.afdb.org/en/documents/african-statistical-yearbook-2020