Sub-regional surveys in Africa

Abstract

In 1964 the ECA began to prepare a series of economic surveys covering the sub-regions of Africa. The first survey to be completed was in two parts - the first part covered the fourteen countries in the West African sub-region; the second part covered South Africa. There was a considerable lack of data for a number of the countries in the West African sub-region but an attempt was made to cover the period from the early 3.950's to approximately 1963/64 in the .information presented. Data were also available from a number of development plans which gave indicators for later years; Ghana at that time had a plan running to 1969 whilst that for Mauritania ran to 1966. The published version of this survey appeared in 1967.