As Africa’s Population Crosses 1.5 Billion, The Demographic Window Is Opening; Getting The Dividend Requires More Time And Stronger Effort.
Stories & Blogs ECAJul 12, 2024(Story )On the World Population Day 2024, the United Nations’ Population Division released the 28th edition of official World Population Prospects (WPP) and forecast.
Opening Remarks by Oliver Chiganya at the Sixth Africa Gender Statistics Forum
Stories & Blogs ECAJul 08, 2024(Story )Pooling Together for Gender Statistics: Financing the Numbers that make Women and Girls Count
Harmonised methods for informal cross border trade data collection critical in monitoring intra-African Trade
Stories & Blogs ECAApr 28, 2023(Story )There are no agreed methods to accurately measure cross border trade, experts said at the first physical meeting of the ...
ECA launches program to modernize statistical production processes in Africa
Stories & Blogs ECAMar 29, 2023(Story )The program follows the road map for transformation and modernizing official statistics in Africa, which was approved by the ECA’s Conference of Ministers of Finance and Economic ...
More investment in data and statistics needed in Africa.
Stories & Blogs ECAMar 21, 2023(Story )“African countries can take action to accelerate sustainable development if they plan better and invest in effective data and statistical systems”, says Oliver Chinganya, Director of the Africa Center for Statistics (ACS) of ECA.
Poor data dents Africa’s sustainable development goals implementation
Stories & Blogs ECAMar 02, 2021(Story )Good quality data and statistics are important for informing development decisions and Africa should not be found wanting as it seeks to meet the SDGs and Africa’s Agenda ...