九国人均收入自1990年以来翻倍

Economic growth is most important for the world's poorest people, and most of the world’s poorest live on the African continent. Are Africa’s economies growing?The picture is mixed. In some countries, incomes have unfortunately declined in the last decades. This includes Madagascar, Zimbabwe, and Burundi. I have written about this in my brief explainer on extreme poverty.In today’s Data Insight, I want to focus on the other side: I want to highlight the African countries that are achieving economic growth. Nine of them are shown in the chart above.In all nine countries, people’s average incomes have more than doubled since 1990.This made substantial improvements in living standards possible: the share of people in extreme poverty and the rate of child mortality declined in all nine countries.If you want to know more about the importance of growth and how it can be measured, you could read my article: What is economic growth? And why is it so important?