Sub-Saharan Africa
Typology of Countries
IMF Data Mapper®
April 2008Sub-Saharan Africa organizes 44 countries into four nonoverlapping groups: oil exporters, and non-oil-exporting middle-income, low-income, and fragile 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, all belong to the CFA franc zone. Oil exporters are classified as such even if they would otherwise qualify for another group.
- The 8 middle-income countries are not oil exporters and have per capita income higher than $905, according to 2006 GNI per capita as calculated by the World Bank.
- The 15 low-income countries are not oil exporters and have per capita income equal to or lower than $905 and a score higher than 3.2 on the Country Policy and Institutional Performance Assessment of the World Bank, following the classification in the 2007 Global Monitoring Report.
- The other 14 countries are categorized as fragile.
Countries are also grouped as "Resource-intensive countries" and "Non-resource intensive countries" (see table A2).