Geology
Volcanoes
Minerals
The bowels of Africa are rich in natural resources. It is estimated that in 2019 the continent has 60% of the world's reserves of manganese ores, chromium - 48%, titanium - 44.5%, bauxite and gold - 42%, uranium - 19%, oil - 12%, natural gas - 8%.
In addition, 90% of the world's platinum, 52% of diamonds, 42% of cobalt and 36% of vanadium are mined in Africa.
Minerals on the continent are mined mainly with the help of foreign companies due to the lack of necessary technologies from African countries.
Countries
Main article: Countries of the world
North Africa
East Africa
- Burundi
- Djibouti
- Kenya
- Mosquitoes
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mozambique
- Rwanda
- Seychelles
- Somalia
- Tanzania
- Uganda
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
West Africa
- Angola
- Benin
- Burkina Faso
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Cape Verde
- Cameroon
- Congo
- Kot-d
- Liberia
- Mauritania
- Mali
- Nigeria
- São Tomé and Príncipe
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- Togo
- Equatorial Guinea
Central Africa
South Africa
Population
Main article: Population of Africa
Economy
Countries' GDP
Inflation
Currency unions
Transport
Through the efforts of the PRC, a direct trans-African railway connection was opened between the Indian and Atlantic oceans.
On July 30, 2019, the first train between Tanzania and Angola set off on a 4300 km journey.
Telecommunications
2024: Internet penetration rate - 43%
All coastal African countries except Eritrea for 2024 have 1-2 connections to transcontinental fiber optic cables laid along the ocean floor. The average internet penetration rate in African countries today is 43%, compared to 29% in 2016.
At the same time, Africa is still lagging behind global values. Thus, the average global Internet penetration rate is estimated at this time at 68%. The gap between the African countries themselves is also striking: if in Eritrea the average penetration rate is only 7%, then Kenya in - 85%. An analysis of 644 million indexed Google African Internet pages suggests that two-thirds of them are accounted for by only 10 of the 54 countries on the continent REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA Nigeria Egypt-,,,,,,,,, and Morocco. And Kenya Tunisia Tanzania all Algeria Mauritius 33 São Tomé and Príncipe of the lowest positions in the world ranking of the Network Readiness Index (NRI) are occupied by African countries.
One of the main problems for the countries of the continent is the high cost of connection. In 2024, the average African must spend 4% of his monthly income to get 1 GB of internet traffic per month (a volume that is barely enough to watch 4 minutes of video per day). It is the high cost of connection, as well as the underdeveloped infrastructure and the fact that most of the continent's inhabitants are limited only to mobile access to the network, that are the main factors hindering the development of the domain industry. According to statistics, ICANN out of 1122 domain registrars accredited by the corporation, Africa is represented only by 12-3 from South Africa, 2 from Morocco and Nigeria and one from,,, and Burundi Ghana Mauritius Senegal Tunisia.
The full text of the study (204 pages, language - English) can be found on the ICANN website.
2023: 4.33 million domains registered
As of November 2023, a little more than 4.33 million domain names are registered in the national domains of African countries. Over 1.4 million more domain names are registered by individuals and legal entities of the African continent in various common top-level domains.
2022: 1.1 million km of above ground fiber optic cables
As of mid-2022, over 1.1 million kilometers of ground-based fiber optic cables had been laid in Africa.
IT market
Oil production
Seaports
In Africa as of October 2019, at least 46 sub-Saharan ports, the Chinese have a financial, construction or military interest. Six of them were visited by Chinese warships. Port investment allows Beijing to increase both trade and military-political influence in Africa.Study text
Trade
2023
Share of Russia and Ukraine in wheat supplies to African countries
Russia doubled fertilizer supplies to Africa
In the period from 2018 to 2023, Russia more than doubled the supply of mineral fertilizers to African countries - from 772 thousand tons to 1.7 million tons. This was announced by the Russian Association of Fertilizer Producers (RAPU) in early August 2024. Read more here
China remains Africa's largest trading partner
Russia's trade with African countries grew by 37% to $24.5 billion
The trade turnover of Russia with African countries increased by 37% in 2023 and amounted to $24.5 billion.
This was announced by Pavel Kalmychek, Director of the Department for the Development of Bilateral Cooperation of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, during a meeting of the Expert Council on Development and Support for Comprehensive Partnership with African Countries.
According to Kalmychek, not only exports, but also imports have increased.
Exports grew in traditional commodity groups: they supplied oil, wheat, and various metals. In turn, mainly fruits, nuts, cocoa were imported from African countries.
"We are interested in diversifying our supply. The basket from African countries can also be expanded with other goods, "said Pavel Kalmychek.
2021: US falls several times behind China on trade with Africa
2018
Power
Electrification
Investments
2020: China and UAE lead Africa investment
2018: Foreign investment growth by 13% to $32 billion
Contrary to the global downward trend in foreign direct investment, Africa has seen a sharp 13% increase in 2018.
According to the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), from 2017 to 2018, global FDI decreased from $1.5 trillion to $1.3 trillion.
Africa, on the contrary, is becoming a strategic investment center.
Sub-Saharan Africa received $32 billion in foreign direct investment - a 13% increase compared to 2017.
Morocco and Egypt received FDI in the amount of $14 billion - an increase of 7%.
Nigeria performed the worst - a 15% decline.
Consumption
2019: Rice consumption
2018: Vegetable consumption
The richest entrepreneurs
Main article: The richest people in the world
2022
There are 361 thousand millionaires in the country
The richest people in Africa
2021: Reduction in the number of people with a fortune of more than $30 million
Tourism
ECOWAS
Main article: ECOWAS (ECOWAS)
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is a regional organization established in 1975 to strengthen economic cooperation between West African countries.
Economies of Africa
Weapons purchases
2018: Russia is Africa's biggest arms exporter
From 2000 to 2018, the countries of the Black Continent purchase weapons mainly from Russia.
Over the past five years, Algeria holds the status of the main importer of Russian (and not only) weapons: 56% of total African imports fell on this country, while most countries had these purchases insignificant.
The main importers of Russian weapons are also: Angola, Nigeria Sudan Cameroon and Senegal. In addition, the volume of supplies to Egypt over the past five years amounted to 46%.
International politics
Cooperation with Russia
Main article: Cooperation between Russia and Africa
Military bases of other countries
Crime
Prisons
2022: Minimum age for children to be jailed
2018: Number of prisoners per 100 thousand citizens
Terrorism
Energy carriers
Energy consumption per capita
and
Gasoline price
Health care
Main article: Health care in Africa
Hunger
Education
Percentage of people who can read
Literacy rate
MEDIA
2022: The highest-earning YouTube channels in Africa
Culture
Languages
As of 2019, a third of the languages of all mankind are distributed in Africa.
As a rule, all these languages differ in the most complex grammatical structure. And it is a mistake to think that if people have not achieved high technical development, then their language is primitive. On the contrary, the most dizzying grammatical turns are found in the languages of the peoples of Africa, Siberia and Australia.
Perhaps the main distinguishing feature of many languages of Africa is the presence on average of 10-15, or even 25 nominal classes or genera, and, accordingly, the same number of pronouns, and not as in Russian "he," "she," "it." But behind this classification are very interesting principles. For example, there are no genera in Swahili - nouns are divided into 8 nominal classes, such as: animate, round, abstract, long, very large objects, as well as animal names.
Nouns belonging to the same class have the same prefix. For example, if you see a noun starting with ki, then know that we are talking about a small object, a very small animal or a baby, that is, about what you can raise with your hands.
Religion
Cinema
Nollywood
Main article: Nollywood (Nollywood)
Sport
African Games
2022: The most popular sport is football
Startups in Africa
Main article: Startups in Africa
History
2023: A new wave of coups to free France from oppression
1960: Wave of liberation from colonialism
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Quote: The map of Africa is redrawn and redrawn before our eyes. But not everyone yet.
There are still splinters. France clung to Algeria and Somalia. Spain cannot fall off the Sahara and Rio Muni in any way. The Portuguese bitten Guinea, Angola and Mozambique with a stranglehold. Belgian youths seized on Katanga, and at the same time do not release Rwanda-Urundi.
There is nothing to say about England. From Gambia to Bechuanaland and Kenya to Sierra Leone, the ominous word "business" still whistles over the savannas and jungle.
In general, it's too early to indulge in careless glee...
1940: British East African Colonies
Main article: British Colonies of East Africa
1914: Political map of Africa before World War I
1880: Political Map of Africa
1819: Political map of Africa
Transatlantic slave trade
The transatlantic slave trade is considered one of the gross violations of human rights in history. It is the largest act of deportation of the population, with more than 17 million people displaced within 400 years.
Before Alexander the Great
Calendar
Flora
Forest cover
The Great Green Wall
Plants
Fauna
Lions
Cheetahs
At the beginning of 2020, only 7,100 cheetahs remained in the wild, and almost all of them live in Africa.
As of January 2020, India wants to buy African cheetahs from Namibia.
The country's Supreme Court allowed animals from Africa to be brought into suitable habitat, as the Asian cheetah became extinct in India back in the 1950s.
Zebras
Once upon a time, these beautiful animals lived all over Africa. In the northern part of the continent, they were exterminated in ancient times (like lions, for example). For 2019, zebras are not endangered, but their range is rapidly declining. So, already during the 21st century, zebras did not become in Angola, Lesotho and Burundi (flags in the picture).
In 2018, most of the 660 thousand striped lived in South Africa, Zambia, Tanzania and Kenya. The range of zebras is relatively stable in 12 countries, and in 4 they are at risk of extinction (DR Congo, Rwanda, Mozambique, Swaziland).
Whalers
The kitoglav is a large bird from the order of stork, which lives in 2019 in the tropical swamps of East Africa, including in South Sudan.
The height of the adult is about 1.2 m, the wingspan reaches 2.3 m. Despite its impressive growth, the kitoglav weighs mainly up to 7 kg.
Pangolins
African civet
African civet is a mammal from the family of viverra order of predators. In captivity, African civets are kept only in cages, fed meat and especially birds. If the civet is caught young, it soon becomes tame.
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