Countries of Africa

Answer: The correct answer should be South Africa.

Which country in sub-Saharan Africa is the wealthiest and has an emerging market economy but also has a history of racial discrimination? A. Libya.

• Algeria.
• Angola.
• Benin.
• Botswana.
• Burkina Faso.
• Burundi.
• Cameroon.
• Cape Verde.

Top 10 Poorest Countries in Africa

• Ethiopia (GDP Per Capita $783)
• Mozambique (GDP Per Capita $519)
• Somalia (GDP Per Capita $478)
• Democratic Republic of Congo (GDP Per Capita $448.7)
• Madagascar (GDP Per Capita $415.32)
• Malawi (GDP Per Capita $402.400)
• Niger (GDP Per Capita $400)
• Liberia (GDP Per Capita $360)

Africa’s two most profitable mineral resources are gold and diamonds. In 2008, Africa produced about 483 tons of gold, or 22 percent of the world’s total production. South Africa accounts for almost half of Africa’s gold production. Ghana, Guinea, Mali, and Tanzania are other major producers of gold.

One major difference between South Africa and Nigeria is the nature of their economies. South Africa is characterized by a highly diversified economic base. This is in most ways a huge contrast to the Nigerian economy. It has in the recent past been bedeviled by remarkably low market prices.

The top ten wealthiest African countries are:

• Nigeria – $514.05 billion.
• Egypt – $394.28 billion.
• South Africa – $329.53 billion.
• Algeria – $151.46 billion.
• Morocco – $124 billion.
• Kenya – $106.04 billion.
• Ethiopia – $93.97 billion.
• Ghana – $74.26 billion.

Nigeria is approximately 923,768 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 32% larger than Nigeria. Meanwhile, the population of Nigeria is ~214.0 million people (157.6 million fewer people live in South Africa).

Morocco. Going by the Global Innovation Index 2020, Morocco is doing better than Nigeria. The country has become a major player in African economic affairs and is the 5th largest African economy by GDP (PPP).

Nigeria

Equatorial Guinea

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Uganda

Top 20 Dirtiest Cities in Africa (Most Polluted)

• Bafoussam, Cameroon.
• Ile Ife, Nigeria.
• Abakaliki, Nigeria.
• Johannesburg – South Africa.
• Afikpo, Nigeria.
• Buchanan, Liberia.
• Yaounde, Cameroon. In Yaounde, Local residents engage in urban agriculture.
• Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Addis Ababa is the capital and largest city of Ethiopia.

Somalia, South Sudan and Central African Republic are considered as the most dangerous countries in Africa in 2020, according to the Global Peace Index.

This article reveals a varied selection of ten of the most beautiful landscapes in all of Africa.

• Table Mountain, South Africa.
• Virunga National Park, DRC.
• Giza Pyramids, Egypt.
• Okavango Delta, Botswana.
• Blyde River Canyon, South Africa.
• Franschhoek, South Africa.
• Serengeti National Park, Tanzania.
• Zanzibar, Tanzania.

Africa is 30 million km2 and India about a tenth of that. However, the population is larger than that of Africa. So it is much easier to keep it clean with a tenth of the people density. Regarding the wealth, Africa has huge natural resources – most of it still untapped due to lack of infrastructure.

Out of 133 countries ranked by per capita GNP, India ranks as one of the poorest low-income countries, at position 23, above the very poorest. South Africa ranks at position 93, in the group of upper-middle-income countries. South Africa’s per capita income is close to 10 times that of India’s.

1/3rd world’s poor is in India. It also has a higher proportion of its population living on less than $ 2 per day than even sub-Saharan Africa. 828 million people or 75.6% of the population is living below $2 a day. 33% of the global poor are Indians which equals to 14 billion people.

Out of all OECD countries, Cost Rica had the highest poverty rate as of 2019, at 19.9 percent. The country with the second highest poverty rate was Hungary, with 17.9 percent as of 2018.