African Statistics Pocketbook 2021

This pocketbook intends to inform in brief about the main African statistical indicators and about the progress made with African integration. Given the limited scope of such a publication, it can, of course, provide only a selection of tables and graphs. Besides the indicators, the pocketbook also presents a brief history of the OAU and the AU. The pocketbook is edited by the African Union Commission (now STATAFRIC) as part of the Pan African Statistics programme funded by the European Union and managed by Eurostat. If readers would like to know more about the facts presented here, they may look into the African Statistical Yearbook (co-edited by the African Union Commission, available here: https://www. afdb.org/en/documents/african-statistical-yearbook-2020).