Tag: Sub-Saharan Africa

The 2018 edition of the UNCTAD B2C E-Commerce Index included forty-four African countries. While the index revealed that the African region lags the rest of the world in terms of e-commerce readiness, the continent is showing progress in key indicators related to B2C e-commerce. The index showed that the B2C Index is highly correlated with …

By mid of 2018, there were 381 million unique subscribers across the Middle East and North Africa region, accounting for 64% of the population. Despite there is an average of annual subscriber growth of 4% over the last four years, the MENA region remains the second least penetrated region in the world. GSMA Intelligence has …

Sub-Saharan Africa region grows faster than any other region; the CAGR – Compound Annual Growth Rate – of 6.1% over the 5 years to 2020 is around 50% higher than the global average. The region also holds 20 million unique mobile subscribers equivalent to a penetration rate of 43% and it’s expected to have more than …