Cocoa products, including paste, butter, and beans dominated the US' agricultural imports from Sub-Saharan Africa in 2024, making up nearly one-third of the total.
Other major import categories included coffee, seafood, oilseed meals, and tree nuts, rounding out the top six.
The top 10 agricultural imports accounted for 74% of all the US' agricultural imports from the region.
Each of the top 10 products had an import value exceeding $120 million.
From SSA, Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana were the leading suppliers of cocoa products to the US in 2024.
The top three products together represented 41% of the total agricultural imports from the region.
Millions of children missing basic education can affect future workforce skill levels and poverty cycles, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, which has the highest number of out-of-school children.
Between 2000 and 2023, Central and Southern Asia achieved a 72% reduction in out-of-school primary-age children, the largest global improvement.
Meanwhile, sub-Saharan Africa only managed a 4.4% decrease. This highlights the critical need for educational investment in regions still lagging behind.
The share of sub-Saharan Africa with bank/mobile money accounts in 2021 is twice what it was in 2011. The proportion of males aged 15 and above with bank/mobile money accounts is also higher than that of females of the same age.
The number of people from sub-Saharan Africa studying in the US was highest in 2020 — 41,697. Here is the trend of sub-Saharan African, West African, and Nigerian students in the US from 2001 to 2020.
In 2022, 703 million people were estimated to lack basic drinking water services globally. Sub-Saharan Africa accounted for more than half of this estimate, with 408 million people facing this problem. Central & Southern Asia comes next with 20%.
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