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List. The table below presents the latest Human Development Index (HDI) for countries in Africa as included in the United Nations Development Programme's Human Development Report, released on 13 March 2024 and based on data collected in 2024. [ 1] As of 2024, All African UN member states are included in the report.
1. World population growth 1700–2100, 2022 projection. Population projections are attempts to show how the human population statistics might change in the future. [ 1] These projections are an important input to forecasts of the population's impact on this planet and humanity's future well-being. [ 2] Models of population growth take trends ...
The Government of Mali made limited efforts to prevent trafficking, through awareness-raising or other means, in 2023. [4] It held two events on World Day Against Trafficking in Persons in collaboration with international organizations, and organized a national forum on the fight against hereditary slavery. [4]
In paleoanthropology, the recent African origin of modern humans or the " Out of Africa " theory ( OOA) [ a] is the most widely accepted [ 1][ 2][ 3] model of the geographic origin and early migration of anatomically modern humans ( Homo sapiens ). It follows the early expansions of hominins out of Africa, accomplished by Homo erectus and then ...
The 2022–2023 mpox outbreak in South Africa is a part of the larger outbreak of human mpox caused by the West African clade of the monkeypox virus. South Africa was the forty-seventh country, outside of the African countries with endemic mpox, to experience an outbreak in 2022. The first case of mpox in South Africa was on June 23, 2022. [1]
Slavery has historically been widespread in Africa. Systems of servitude and slavery were once commonplace in parts of Africa, as they were in much of the rest of the ancient and medieval world. [ 1] When the trans-Saharan slave trade, Red Sea slave trade, Indian Ocean slave trade and Atlantic slave trade (which started in the 16th century ...
Human Heredity and Health in Africa, or H3Africa, is an initiative to study the genomics and medical genetics of African people. Its goals are to build the continent's research infrastructure, train researchers and clinicians, and to study questions of scientific and medical interest to Africans. [1] The H3Africa Consortium was formally ...
There has been a large degree of human capital flight from South Africa in recent years. [ 122 ] [ 123 ] South Africa's Bureau of Statistics estimates that between 1 million and 1.6 million people in skilled, professional, and managerial occupations have emigrated overseas between 1994 and 2004 and that, for every emigrant, 10 unskilled people ...