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27 May 2005

Update 16 Dec 2005: The 2004 edition is now available!

Welcome to Africa! Today's dynamic GDP table presents data for the entire African continent minus Western Sahara, for which no economic data is available. You may rank the data by clicking upon the column heads. If you're interested in comparing this data against individual states in the U.S., you may do so by looking at this dynamic table, which allow you to sort individual U.S. states according to their 2002 Gross State Product (GSP), the state equivalent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

As with Political Calculations' other looks at international GDP data, the data in the table below has been adjusted for each country's Purchasing Power Parity, which takes into account how much an individual can buy within a country along with the currency exchange rate between the individual country's currency and the U.S. dollar. This allows for a more direct comparison between countries with different rates of exchange in their currencies, as well as what their currencies are capable of buying within their own countries.

2002 African GDP and Population Data
Country GDP-PPP ($USD Billions) 2003 Estimated Population GDP-PPP per Capita ($USD)
Algeria 167 32818500 5089
Angola 16.9 10766471 1570
Benin 7.3 7041490 1037
Botswana 15.1 1573267 9598
Burkina Faso 13.6 13228460 1028
Burundi 3.8 6096156 623
Cameroon 27 15746179 1715
Cape Verde 0.6 412137 1456
Central African Republic 4.7 3683538 1276
Chad 10 9253493 1081
Comoros 0.4 632948 697
Congo, Republic of the 2.5 2954258 846
Congo, Democratic Republic of the 34 56625039 600
Cote d'Ivoire 24.5 16962491 1444
Djibouti 0.6 457130 1354
Egypt 268 74718797 3587
Equatorial Guinea 1.3 510473 2488
Eritrea 3.3 4362254 756
Ethiopia 50.6 66557553 760
Gabon 7 1321560 5297
Gambia, The 2.6 1501050 1732
Ghana 42.5 20467747 2076
Guinea 15.9 9030220 1761
Guinea-Bissaau 1.1 1360827 808
Kenya 32 31639091 1011
Lesotho 5.6 1861959 3008
Liberia 3.5 3317176 1055
Libya 41 5499074 7456
Madagascar 12.6 16979744 742
Malawi 7.2 11651239 618
Mali 9.8 11626219 843
Mauritania 5.3 2912584 1820
Mauritius 13.2 1210447 10905
Morocco 115 31689265 3629
Mozambique 19.2 17479266 1098
Namibia 12.6 1927447 6537
Niger 8.8 11058590 796
Nigeria 113.5 133881703 848
Reunion 3.6 755171 4767
Rwanda 9 7810056 1152
Sao Tome and Principe 0.2 175883 1137
Senegal 16.2 10580307 1531
Seychelles 0.6 80469 7779
Sierra Leone 2.8 5732681 488
Somalia 4.1 8025190 511
South Africa 432 42768678 10101
Sudan 52.9 38114160 1388
Swaziland 4.8 1161219 4134
Tanzania 22.5 32922454 683
Togo 8 5429299 1473
Tunisia 63 9924742 6348
Uganda 31 25632794 1209
Zambia 8.9 10307333 863
Zimbabwe 27 12576742 2147
Africa (All) 1806.2 852813020 2118

Sources and Acknowledgements:

Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Data: The World Factbook, 2003 via Bartelby.
July, 2003 Population Estimate: The World Factbook, 2003 GDP Data via Bartelby.
Table Sorting Function: The Daily Kryogenix

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