Africa is a continent of 1.1bn people, over 50 countries and thousands of different languages. Comparisons between countries are always difficult, more so in a continent so diverse.
We have plotted seven alternative indicators for each of the countries below which provide some sense of life on the ground as well as a general barometer of each nation’s development.
For example, a high proportion of the workforce being in the service sector suggests that the country is largely dependent on high-skilled jobs such as banking, which has grown rapidly over the past decade.
Each indicator has its own scale, shown in the key. As a general rule, dots further to the right tend to signify greater average wealth. For example, the countries with higher numbers of children per woman have that particular dot on the left hand side while those with fewer have it placed on the right.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/datablog/2015/sep/10/africa-in-numbers-how-its-countries-compare
