SSA is characterised by extremes of poverty…
development, international and intraregional trade, commodity prices, financial markets
Table 1 summarises the situation. Notice that SSA has 13.9% of the world’s population and 18.2% of the world’s land area — but only 1.9% of world gross national income (GNI). The average human development index (HDI) for SSA is 0.523, and of the 41 countries classified as having low human development, 35 are in SSA. This suggests that although the region has an abundance of people, levels of health and education are relatively low.
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