Africa has the youngest population in the world. Among the 35 countries with the lowest median age worldwide, only three fall outside the continent. In 2023, the median age in Niger was 15.1 years, the youngest country. This means that at this age point, half of the population was younge...
As of 2025, there are 40 countries that you can travel VISA-FREE with UK visa. This list has shrunk a bit in the last one year, but 40 is still quite a good number. UK visa doesn’t have the long-term appeal like the US visa or Canada visa. If you don’t have a US or Ca...
In 2025, there are six countries, all in Sub-Saharan Africa, where the average woman of childbearing age can expect to have between 5-6 children throughout their lifetime. In fact, of the 20 countries in the world with the highest fertility rates, Afghanistan and Yemen are the only countr...
VOA fee is 50 USD, payable in USD, valid for 30 days, single-entry only Besides the VOA fee, there is a 10 USD tourist card fee, 2 USD land border migration fee (for land border only) and 1 USD municipality tax (for land border only) (payable in USD only) Official source:IATA T...
Gaborone, the capital, is located in the southeastern part of the country, near the border with South Africa. Botswana is known for its political stability and relatively strong economy, largely based on diamond mining, which is a major export. The country is also home to the Okavango Delta,...
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic demonstrated to the world that policy guidelines for response capacities, even in high income countries with assumed robust health systems, did not necessarily translate into practice [15]. In view of the fact that countries in sub-Saharan Africa ...
with the starting point, the interaction with learning having a small further effect (Fig.1a; see Extended Data Fig.2for greater granularity). This scenario therefore depicts a future world in which international access to energy financing is equal. To achieve such a world in 25 years, ...
Convergence reduces the CoC in high-CoC countries by around 4 percentage points compared with the starting point, the interaction with learning having a small further effect (Fig. 1a; see Extended Data Fig. 2 for greater granularity). This scenario therefore depicts a future world in which ...
Using phone surveys and administrative data in 36 LMICs, we find survey-based COVID-19 vaccine coverage to systematically exceed administrative figures by 47% on average. This discrepancy is strongest in Sub-Saharan Africa, raising questions about the role of data quality for our understanding of ...
In 2023, South Africa had the highest unemployment rate in the world, at 32.1 percent. Of the 10 countries with the highest unemployment rates, six were in Sub-Saharan Africa. What exactly is unemployment? The unemployment rate is the number of people in the workforce currently looking for ...