Top 20 Africa Works Facts

11.26.07

Health

• Botswana has cut its mother-to-child HIV transmission rate to less than 4%
• 1.34 million people are on life-saving HIV/AIDS treatment in Africa
• The Global Fund has delivered 46 million bed nets to protect families from malaria
• In parts of Kenya bed nets have reduced child deaths from malaria by 44%
• Savings from debt relief were used in Mozambique to vaccinate half a million children

• 29 million more kids are in school in sub-Saharan Africa thanks in part to debt cancellation and foreign aid
• The abolition of primary school fees led to 3 million more children in school in Tanzania
• Savings from debt relief were used in Nigeria to hire 40,000 more teachers

• AGOA has created 45,000 jobs in Lesotho and opened the U.S. market to more than $300 million in clothing exports
• Foreign investment in sub-Saharan Africa reached more than $17 billion in 2005
• 18 African countries have averaged economic growth of 5.5% over the past ten years
• Inflation in sub-Saharan Africa decreased from 18% in 2000 to approximately 10% in 2006
• Between 1997 and 2003, Mozambique lifted 3 million people out of extreme poverty

• Between 1990 and 2004, the percentage of the population with access to clean water in Malawi increased from 40% to 73%
• 10 million people have gained access to safe water in South Africa since 1994
• Senegal has achieved near-universal access to clean water in its urban areas

• Kenya and Ghana rank among the top 10 business climate reformers in the world
• The number of democracies in Africa increased from three in 1989 to 18 in 2005
• Rwanda has the largest proportion of women in parliament of any country in the world
• The number of African conflicts declined from 16 in 2002 to 5 in 2006