The following list of countries and territories were used in the analysis as representing the sub-Saharan African region.
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Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Dem. Rep. of the Congo Djibouti Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon Gambia |
Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast Kenya Lesotho Liberia Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Mayotte Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria |
Republic of the Congo Rwanda Sao Tome and Principe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa South Sudan St. Helena Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe |
Sub-Saharan Africa in this report includes Sudan but does not include Reunion (considered part of France). This differs from previous Pew Research Center reports featuring analyses of sub-Saharan Africa.
In addition to the countries listed above, the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2015 American Community Survey’s other grouped categories such as Western Africa, Eastern Africa and Africa were also considered part of sub-Saharan Africa. Countries known by their earlier names such as Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo) were included as sub-Saharan Africa.
Eurostat defines “Other Africa” in the Labor Force Survey to be this list of countries outside of North Africa. These countries are largely similar to the list above.
