Sub-Saharan Africa
Typology of Countries
IMF Data Mapper®
April 2008Sub-Saharan Africa organizes 44 countries into four nonoverlapping groups: oil exporters, non-oil-exporting middle-income, low-income, and fragile low-income countries (see table A1).
- The 7 oil exporters are countries where net oil exports make up 30 percent or more of total exports. Except for Angola and Nigeria, they belong to the Central African Economic and Monetary Community. Oil exporters are classified as such even if they would otherwise qualify for another group.
- The 11 middle-income countries not classified as oil exporters or fragile countries had average per capita gross national income in the years 2008–10 of more than US$992.7, as calculated by the World Bank using the Atlas method.
- The 14 low-income countries not classified as oil exporters or fragile countries had average per capita gross national income in the years 2008–10 equal to or lower than US$992.7, and had a score higher than 3.2 on the IDA Resource Allocation Index (IRAI).
- The 12 countries classified as fragile had a score of 3.2 or less on the IDA Resource Allocation Index (IRAI).
Countries are also grouped as "Resource-intensive countries" and "Non-resource intensive countries" (see table A2).