Poverty in Africa: In your Eyes

Poverty in Africa is widespread. Most African nations are poor, with some of them being among the poorest countries in the world.


Ghana is the second poorest country in the world, with less than 0.01% of the overall worldwide wealth. African nations typically fall toward the bottom of any list measuring small size economic activity, such as income per capita or GDP per capita, despite a wealth of natural resources. The bottom 25 spots of the United Nations (UN) quality of life index are regularly filled by African nations.


According to wikipedia, in 2006, 34 of the 50 nations on the UN list of least developed countries are in Africa. In many nations, the GDP per capital income is less than $200 U.S. per year, with the vast majority of the population living on much less. In addition, Africa's share of income has been consistently dropping over the past century by any measure.


In 1820, the average European worker earned about three times what the average African did. Now, the average European earns twenty times what the average African does.


Although GDP per capita incomes in Africa have also been steadily growing, measures are still far better in other parts of the world, such as Latin America, which suffers from many of the same disadvantages.



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