overview on SSA achievement towards the SDG's GOALs

1. POVERTY AND
INEQUALITY IN SUB-
SAHARAN AFRICA
EMERSON EHOUMAN

2. 1 INTRODUCTION
2 SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA (SSA) SITUATION
3 COUNTRY EXAMPLE
3.1 CÔTE D’IVOIRE
3.1.1 POVERTY
3.1.2 INEQUALITY
3.2 CHAD
3.1.1 POVERTY
3.1.2 INEQUALITY
3.3 SOUTH AFRICA
3.1.1 POVERTY
3.1.2 INEQUALITY
4 CONCLUSION
5 SOURCES
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3. sources of debate
for several years
Poverty-Inequality

4. • Over 800 million people worldwide still live
below the US $ 1.90 PPP per day extreme
poverty line. Another 2 billion struggle to survive
on less than two dollars per day.
Inequality and poverty affect each other directly and indirectly through
their link with economic growth
Issues are present in all parts of the globe but they show
different feature through countries.
“It is not our choice to penetrate the sea”
• 3 million children die from malnutrition every year.
• In 2015, only half of the world’s working-age women are
in the labor force, compared to 77 percent of working-age
men.
• Women around the world aged 15-44 are more at risk from
rape and domestic violence than from cancer, car
accidents, war and malaria.

5. Table 1. SSA Countries list
WHAT DO WE KNOW
ABOUT THE SUB-SAHARA
AFRICA

6. Of the 738 million people globally who lack access to clean
water, 37 percent are living in sub-Saharan Africa.
In sub-Saharan Africa, 589 million people live without
electricity.
Seventy-five percent of the world’s poorest countries are
located in Africa,
Women in sub-Saharan Africa are over 230 times more likely
to die during childbirth or pregnancy than women in North
America.
WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

7. WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT
THE SUB-SAHARA AFRICA
Table 2. Headcount ratio (% poor) for 2010 by region for various 2011 PPP poverty
lines
Source:GCIP

8. Table 3. Proportion of the popultion living on less than $ 1.25 a day in countries of sub-saharan Africa,
1981, 1990 and 2005, and the change needed to reach the 2015 target
WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT
THE SUB-SAHARA AFRICA

9. WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT
THE SUB-SAHARA AFRICA
58.5 %
MPI
0.872
GDI
0.575
GII
0,518
HDI

10. WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT
THE SUB-SAHARA AFRICA

11. CÔTE D’IVOIRE
59.3 %
MPI
0,432
GİNİ
$1,450 in
2014
Low
Middle
Income
22.16
million in
2014
46,3 %
POVERTY
RATE

12. CÔTE D’IVOIRE

13. CHAD
86,9 %
MPI
0,433
GİNİ
$ 980 in
2014
Low
Income
13.500
million
in 2014
46,7 %
POVERTY
RATE

14. CHAD

15. SOUTH AFRICA
10,3 %
MPI
0,433
GİNİ
$ 6,800
in 2014
Upper
Middle
Income
54.77
million
in 2014
53,8 %
POVERTY
RATE

16. SOUTH AFRICA

17. COMPARISON

18. COMPARISON

19. COMPARISON

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