Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
editAs of 2017 ECOWAS has 15 member states, eight of these are French-speaking, five are English-speaking and two Portuguese-speaking. All current members joined the community as founding members in May 1975, except Cape Verde which joined in 1977.[1] The only former member of ECOWAS is Arabic-speaking Mauritania, which was also one of the founding members in 1975 and decided to withdraw in December 2000.[1]
Statistics for population, nominal GDP and purchase price parity GDP listed below are taken from World Bank estimates for 2015, published in December 2016.[2][3][4] Area data is taken from a 2012 report compiled by the United Nations Statistics Division.[5]
Country | Area[5] (km2) |
Population[2] (thousands) |
GDP (nominal)[3] (millions USD) |
GDP (PPP)[4] (millions intl.$) |
Currency (ISO code) |
Official language |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Benin | 114,763 | 10,880 | 8,291 | 22,377 | CFA franc (XOF) | French |
Burkina Faso | 272,967 | 18,106 | 10,678 | 30,708 | CFA franc (XOF) | French |
Cape Verde | 4,033 | 521 | 1,603 | 3,413 | escudo (CVE) | Portuguese |
Gambia | 11,295 | 1,991 | 939 | 3,344 | dalasi (GMD) | English |
Ghana | 238,533 | 27,410 | 37,543 | 115,409 | cedi (GHS) | English |
Guinea | 245,857 | 12,609 | 6,699 | 15,244 | franc (GNF) | French |
Guinea-Bissau | 36,125 | 1,844 | 1,057 | 2,685 | CFA franc (XOF) | Portuguese |
Ivory Coast | 322,463 | 22,702 | 31,759 | 79,766 | CFA franc (XOF) | French |
Liberia | 111,369 | 4,503 | 2,053 | 3,762 | dollar (LRD) | English |
Mali | 1,240,192 | 17,600 | 12,747 | 35,695 | CFA franc (XOF) | French |
Niger | 1,267,000 | 19,899 | 7,143 | 19,013 | CFA franc (XOF) | French |
Nigeria | 923,768 | 182,202 | 481,066 | 1,093,921 | naira (NGN) | English |
Senegal | 196,712 | 15,129 | 13,610 | 36,625 | CFA franc (XOF) | French |
Sierra Leone | 72,300 | 6,453 | 4,215 | 10,127 | leone (SLL) | English |
Togo | 56,785 | 7,305 | 4,088 | 10,667 | CFA franc (XOF) | French |
ECOWAS Total | 5,114,162 | 349,154 | 623,491 | 1,482,756 | — | — |
Southern African Development Community (SADC)
editCountry | Area[5] (km2) |
Population[2] (thousands) |
GDP (nominal)[3] (millions USD) |
GDP (PPP)[4] (millions intl.$) |
Currency (ISO code) |
Official language |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Angola ‡ | 1,246,700 | 25,022 | 102,627 | 184,830 | kwanza (AOA) | Portuguese |
Botswana | 582,000 | 2,262 | 14,390 | 35,836 | pula (BWP) | English |
DR Congo ‡ | 2,344,858 | 77,267 | 35,238 | 60,605 | franc (CDF) | French |
Lesotho | 30,355 | 2,135 | 2,278 | 6,297 | loti (LSL) | English |
Madagascar | 587,295 | 24,235 | 9,739 | 35,513 | ariary (MGA) | French |
Malawi | 118,484 | 17,215 | 6,404 | 20,376 | kwacha (MWK) | English |
Mauritius | 1,969 | 1,263 | 11,682 | 25,360 | rupee (MUR) | English / French |
Mozambique | 801,590 | 27,978 | 14,807 | 33,355 | metical (MZN) | Portuguese |
Namibia | 824,268 | 2,459 | 11,492 | 25,600 | dollar (NAD) | English |
Seychelles | 456 | 93 | 1,438 | 2,539 | rupee (SCR) | English / French |
South Africa | 1,221,037 | 54,957 | 314,572 | 725,909 | rand (ZAR) | English |
Swaziland | 17,363 | 1,287 | 4,118 | 11,129 | lilangeni (SZL) | English |
Tanzania | 947,303 | 53,470 | 45,628 | 138,732 | shilling (TZS) | English |
Zambia | 752,612 | 16,212 | 21,154 | 62,180 | kwacha (ZMW) | English |
Zimbabwe | 390,757 | 15,603 | 14,419 | 27,876 | — | English |
SADC Total | 9,867,047 | 321,458 | 609,986 | 1,396,137 | — | — |
East African Community (EAC)
editCountry | Area[5] (km2) |
Population[2] (thousands) |
GDP (nominal)[3] (millions USD) |
GDP (PPP)[4] (millions intl.$) |
Currency (ISO code) |
Official language |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Burundi ‡ | 27,834 | 11,179 | 3,097 | 8,129 | franc (BIF) | French |
Kenya | 591,958 | 46,050 | 63,398 | 142,240 | shilling (KES) | English |
Rwanda ‡ | 26,338 | 11,610 | 8,096 | 20,460 | franc (RWF) | English / French |
South Sudan | 619,745 | 12,340 | 9,015 | 22,876 | pound (SSP) | English |
Tanzania | 947,303 | 53,470 | 45,628 | 138,732 | shilling (TZS) | English |
Uganda | 241,550 | 39,032 | 27,529 | 72,249 | shilling (UGX) | English |
EAC Total | 2,454,728 | 173,681 | 156,763 | 404,686 | — | — |
Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS)
editCountry | Area[5] (km2) |
Population[2] (thousands) |
GDP (nominal)[3] (millions USD) |
GDP (PPP)[4] (millions intl.$) |
Currency (ISO code) |
Official language |
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Angola ‡ | 1,246,700 | 25,022 | 102,627 | 184,830 | kwanza (AOA) | Portuguese |
Burundi ‡ | 27,834 | 11,179 | 3,097 | 8,129 | franc (BIF) | French |
Cameroon | 475,650 | 23,344 | 28,416 | 72,724 | CFA franc (XAF) | French |
Central African Republic | 622,984 | 4,900 | 1,584 | 3,032 | CFA franc (XAF) | French |
Chad | 1,284,000 | 14,037 | 10,889 | 30,543 | CFA franc (XAF) | French / Arabic |
Congo | 342,000 | 4,620 | 8,553 | 29,483 | CFA franc (XAF) | French |
DR Congo ‡ | 2,344,858 | 77,267 | 35,238 | 60,605 | franc (CDF) | French |
Equatorial Guinea | 28,051 | 845 | 12,202 | 34,410 | CFA franc (XAF) | Spanish |
Gabon | 267,668 | 1,725 | 14,262 | 34,646 | CFA franc (XAF) | French |
Rwanda ‡ | 26,338 | 11,610 | 8,096 | 20,460 | franc (RWF) | English / French |
São Tomé and Príncipe | 964 | 190 | 318 | 613 | dobra (STD) | Portuguese |
EAC Total | 6,667,047 | 174,739 | 225,282 | 479,475 | — | — |
References
edit- ^ a b Pazzanita, Anthony (2008). Historical Dictionary of Mauritania. Scarecrow Press. pp. 177–178. ISBN 978-0-8108-6265-4.
- ^ a b c d e "Population 2015" (PDF). World Bank. 16 December 2016. Retrieved 27 January 2017.
- ^ a b c d e "Gross domestic product 2015" (PDF). World Bank. 16 December 2016. Retrieved 27 January 2017.
- ^ a b c d e "Gross domestic product 2015, PPP" (PDF). World Bank. 16 December 2016. Retrieved 27 January 2017.
- ^ a b c d e "Demographic Yearbook – Population by sex, annual rate of population increase, surface area and density" (PDF). United Nations Statistics Division. 2012. pp. 1–2. Retrieved 27 January 2017.