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This thematic map, based on the subnational human development index data for African countries for the years 2000 and 2018, makes clear that almost all of Africa’s 546 regions showed improved living conditions in 2018. The few exceptions are regions in Libya and Somalia, and in the new country South Sudan, which deteriorated between 2010 and 2018. The back side of the map shows the three basic indices: health, education and standard of living.
Post date: 06 October 2020
On the occasion of the Africa 2020 year, the ASCL has created Infosheets about the countries that became independent in 1960. Of the seventeen colonies gaining independence in that year, Nigeria was the sixteenth one: on October 1. Read about Nigeria's political, demographic, socio-economic and agricultural developments in the past 60 years. Also find out about Nigeria's leaders of independence in the ASCL web dossier!
Post date: 01 October 2020
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