African countries have tremendous economic potential with rewarding opportunities for investors. Therefore, despite so many obstacles, a number of African countries have been able to expand their economies, which was primarily made possible by advances in underlying infrastructure that accelerated the convergence of underdeveloped regions with national levels. Real gross domestic product (real GDP) is a macroeconomic measure of the value of economic output adjusted for price changes (i.e. inflation or deflation).
This adjustment transforms the money-value measure, nominal GDP, into an index for quantity of total output. Although GDP is total output, it is primarily useful because it closely approximates the total spending: the sum of consumer spending, investment made by industry, excess of exports over imports, and government spending. Due to inflation, GDP increases and does not actually reflect the true growth in an economy. That is why the GDP must be divided by the inflation rate (raised to the power of units of time in which the rate is measured) to get the growth of the real GDP.
Here are the top 10 fastest growing economies in Africa.
Rank | Country | Real GDP growth rate |
1. | Libya | 177.26% |
2. | Botswana | 12.52% |
3. | Rwanda | 10.20% |
4. | Seychelles | 7.95% |
5. | Kenya | 7.23% |
6. | Morocco | 7.19% |
7. | Burkina Faso | 6.92% |
8. | Cape Verde | 6.90% |
9. | Benin | 6.58% |
10. | Ivory Coast | 6.50% |