The Yearbook series is a result of collaborative efforts by major African regional organizations to set up a joint data collection mechanism of socioeconomic data on African countries as well as the development of a harmonized database. It seeks to promote wider use of country data reduce costs significantly improve the availability and quality of the data and lead to better monitoring of development initiatives on the continent.

The African Statistical Yearbook is a publication jointly produced by Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the African Union Commission (AUC) presenting time-series data over the latest nine years for which data are available showing how African countries performed in several economic and social thematic areas. The summary tables present selected standardized indicators for all African countries to enable comparisons between countries and the country profiles present indicators grouped into nine thematic areas: these are not necessarily used for comparison between countries.

The Yearbook series is a result of collaborative efforts by major African regional organizations to set up a joint data collection mechanism of socioeconomic data on African countries as well as the development of a harmonized database. It seeks to promote wider use of country data reduce costs significantly improve the availability and quality of the data and lead to better monitoring of development initiatives on the continent. The data in this issue of the Yearbook are arranged generally for the years 2006-2014 or for the last eight years for which data are available. It is published in a single volume consisting of two parts: a set of summary tables followed by country profiles.

The Yearbook series is a result of collaborative efforts by major African regional organizations to set up a joint data collection mechanism of socioeconomic data on African countries as well as the development of a harmonized database. It seeks to promote wider use of country data reduce costs significantly improve the availability and quality of the data and lead to better monitoring of development initiatives on the continent. The data in this issue of the Yearbook are arranged generally for the years 2004-2012 or for the last eight years for which data are available. It is published in a single volume consisting of two parts: a set of summary tables followed by country profiles.

The 2009 African Statistical Yearbook the first issue of a series is a result of joint efforts by major African regional organizations to set up a join data collection mechanism of socioeconomic data on African countries as well as the development of a common harmonized database. It is expected that the joint collection and sharing of data between regional institutions will promote wider use of country data reduce costs and significantly improve the quality of the data and lead to better monitoring of development initiatives on the continent. The data in this issue of the Yearbook are arranged generally for the years 2000 to 2008 or for the last eight years for which data are available. The Yearbook is published in one volume consisting of two parts: a set of summary tables followed by country profiles.

The African Statistical Yearbook aims to break with past practices whereby each regional/subregional organization published their own statistical data on African countries. It is expected that the joint collection and sharing of data between regional institutions will promote a wider use of country data reduce costs and significantly improve the quality of the data leading to better monitoring of development initiatives on the continent. The data in this issue of the Yearbook cover the period from 2001 to 2009 or up until the last year for which data are available. There are two parts to this volume: a set of summary tables followed by a set of country profiles.

This newly revised edition of the African Statistical Yearbook published in one volume presents data arranged on a country basis for 53 Economic Commission for Africa member states generally for the years 1997 to 2005 or for the last nine years for which data are available. Published in English and French it covers a broad range of statistics including population national accounts agriculture industry transport and communication tourism foreign trade prices finance social statistics and Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).