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Data appendix

The indicator set with its sources, the source registers, the licences of every kind of material and the formats of the edition.

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Contents
  1. ·Edition home
  2. ·Executive summary
  3. 1The Union’s risk is shared across borders and carried by services that do not yet reach everyone
  4. 2Key findings
  5. 3Systems and sectors at baseline
  6. 4Risks and capability
  7. 5Compound drought, price and outbreak year
  8. 6Readings from the other desks
  9. 7The 2027 agenda
  10. 8Systems in depth
  11. AMethodology
  12. BData appendix
    1. B.1 The indicator set
    2. B.2 National source register
    3. B.3 Regional reading, African Union by member state
    4. B.4 Atlas card, Sub-Saharan Africa at baseline
    5. B.5 African Union system card
    6. B.6 Licences
    7. B.7 Formats and provenance
  13. CReferences and record
  14. ·Complete edition, for print

B.1The indicator set

Table B.1Baseline indicator set
IndicatorValueUnitYearStateSource
Population, Sub-Saharan Africa1.32billion2025Reported4
Population growth2.4%2025Reported5
Aged under 1540.4%2025Reported6
Aged 65 or over3.2%2025Reported7
Urban population44.7%2025Reported8
Life expectancy at birth62.8years2024Reported9
Under-5 mortality71.2per 1,0002024Reported10
GDP, current prices2.21USD trillion2025Reported11
GDP per person, current prices1,673USD2025Reported12
GDP growth4.1%2025Reported13
Agriculture share of GDP18.0%2025Reported14
Employment in agriculture49.8%2024Reported15
Prevalence of undernourishment22.3%2024Reported16
People with electricity55.1%2024Reported17
People with clean cooking22.9%2024Reported18
Renewable electricity output32.6%2021Reported19
Renewables in final energy70.3%2020Reported20
CO2 per person, excluding land use0.70t2024Reported21
Safely managed drinking water32.4%2024Reported22
Safely managed sanitation25.9%2024Reported23
Freshwater withdrawals3.4% of internal resources2022Reported24
Protected land17.3%2025Reported25
Protected territorial waters7.1%2025Reported26
Forest area25.7% of land2023Reported27
Indicators, CSVIndicators, JSON

B.2National source register

The governed source set behind this edition. Each source keeps its authority, coverage, cadence and role; categories describe origin, not truth.

Domains bound by the register

  • WAT
  • ENE
  • FOO
  • HLT
  • BIO
  • CLI
  • INF
  • FIN
  • TRD
  • MIN
Table B.3National source register
SourceCategoryCoveragePeriodCadenceRole
Member states1continental bodyAU2026as changedprofile
State of the Climate in Africa2UN agencyAfrica2024annualCLI
Outbreak communiqué3continental agencyAfrica2026as issuedHLT
Population series45678multilateral statisticsSub-Saharan Africa2025annualprofile
Health series910multilateral statisticsSub-Saharan Africa2024annualHLT
Economic series11121314multilateral statisticsSub-Saharan Africa2025annualFIN
Food and farming1516multilateral statisticsSub-Saharan Africa2024 to 2025annualFOO
Energy and emissions1718192021multilateral statisticsSub-Saharan Africa2020 to 2024annualENE · CLI
Water and sanitation222324multilateral statisticsSub-Saharan Africa2022 to 2024annualWAT
Protected areas and forest252627multilateral statisticsSub-Saharan Africa2023 to 2025annualBIO

B.3Regional reading, African Union by member state

Map plates for every member state follow in Q2 2027, when boundary sources and public-safe resolutions are bound. This page gives the regional reading in table form.

Table B.4Regional reading, African Union by member state
RegionPrincipal hazardsSystems most exposedBaseline evidence
Northern member statesheat, water scarcitywater, food, healthIPCC assessment38; no series read
Western member statesdrought, floods, heatfood, water, healthIPCC assessment38; no series read
Central member statesfloods, forest lossbiodiversity, water, healthforest trend27; IPBES39
Eastern member statesdrought and flood swings, heatfood, water, healthIPCC assessment38; undernourishment16
Southern member statesdrought, storms and cyclonesfood, power, waterIPCC assessment38; no series read
The Union as a wholecross-border compound eventsall systemswarmest decade2; access series1722

B.4Atlas card, Sub-Saharan Africa at baseline

  • continental group
  • World Bank Sub-Saharan Africa
  • services and food
  • data scope
Systems in view
water, energy, food, health
Defining indicators
electricity 55.1%17; undernourishment 22.3%16
Couplings
ENE → HLT; CLI → FOO; WAT → HLT
Capability evidence
Africa CDC communiqués and AU instruments330
Gaps
AU-wide totals; North Africa; losses; capacity
Agenda items
A-01 · A-02 · A-03

In 2024, 55.1% of people had electricity and 22.9% had clean cooking [17] [18].

ENERGY

Fewer than six in ten have power

The prevalence of undernourishment was 22.3% in 2024, up from 19.3% in 2018 [16].

FOOD

One in five is undernourished

In 2024, 32.4% of people used safely managed drinking water and 25.9% safely managed sanitation [22] [23].

WATER

A third use safely managed water

B.5African Union system card

The card through which the African Union appears in the Africa regional edition and the global series. It summarises; it does not rank.

Table B.5African Union system card
SystemBaseline stateCoupling to watchCoverage
Watersafely managed water 32.4%drought into farming and healthPARTIAL
Energyelectricity 55.1%; clean cooking 22.9%access gaps into healthPARTIAL
Foodundernourishment 22.3%price and drought shocksPARTIAL
Healthunder-5 mortality 71.2 per 1,000outbreak loadPARTIAL
Biodiversityprotected land 17.3%forest loss and land usePARTIAL

Context

Archetype
union of 55 member states with shared basins, grids and disease pathways
Population
1.32 billion, Sub-Saharan Africa group, 20254
Economy
GDP USD 2.21 trillion, current prices, 202511
Hazard
warmest decade on record for Africa2

African Union’s card sits beside its neighbours’; shared basins, grids, corridors and supply chains are read as one regional system.

AFRICA REGIONAL EDITION

One regional system

African Union evidence enters the water, energy, food, finance and climate sector reports through the same finding identifiers, so a correction travels everywhere at once.

GLOBAL SECTOR SERIES

Same findings, same IDs

In the global edition the African Union is read against peer distributions and thresholds, never placed in a league table.

GLOBAL FLAGSHIP

Peers, not ranks

B.6Licences

Table B.6Licences of each kind of material
MaterialLicence
TextCC BY 4.0
Dataon the licence of each source; Nexus tables CC BY 4.0
FiguresNexus figures CC BY 4.0; third-party as credited
Mapsboundary source and licence printed on each plate
MetadataCC0 1.0, as Zenodo publishes it
Third-party data, figures and textThe source’s own licence, credited where it is used; never relicensed
Nexus-authored text, tables and figures: CC BY 4.0 (SPDX CC-BY-4.0). Map plates print their boundary source and licence.

B.7Formats and provenance

Table B.7This edition in every format
FormatKindStateWhat it isIdentifier
Web editionHTMLOn this siteDraft in stewardship review; every value resolves to its source.NR-COUNTRY-AU-2026-BASELINE-v1.0.0
Print editionPDFAt releaseA4 portrait · screen, print and archival PDF, signed with the web edition at release.NR-COUNTRY-AU-2026-BASELINE-v1.0.0
Indicator dataCSV · JSONOn this site24 indicators with unit, year, status and source; the machine-readable copy ships with the evidence bundle at release.NR-COUNTRY-AU-2026-BASELINE data release v1
FiguresSVG · PNGOn this site4 on the web edition: headline figure, figure 1.3, coupling instrument, capability ladder.FIG-COUNTRY-AU-2026-BASELINE-*
SlidesPDFNot recordedNo slide deck is recorded for this edition.
Evidence briefHTML · PDFNot recordedNo evidence brief is recorded for this edition.
Dataset with DOIDataCiteAt releaseConcept and version DOI are minted at deposit; none is recorded yet.

Provenance

Edition pack
The edition’s content pack (JSON), from which the print and web editions are built
Evidence cut
NQ-AU-2026-Q0-1, closed 30 September 2026
Reproducibility
sourced values cited; analytical values reproducible from stated parameters
Self-check
14 of 23 at evidence close; a fail on any item blocks release
Review
five passes scheduled before release (in Annex C)
Publisher of record
The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) for the Nexus Consortium
Corrections
Registry correction pathway; upheld corrections are published as notices with a new version

Notes

Numbers are the edition’s reference numbers, so a note reads the same in every chapter. The full list, with every source and its licence, is in Annex C. Annex C, references

  1. 4World Bank (ed.), “Population, total, Sub-Saharan Africa,” World Development Indicators, SP.POP.TOTL. World Bank, Washington DC, observation 2025, retrieved 2026-11-03.back
  2. 5World Bank (ed.), “Population growth (annual %), Sub-Saharan Africa,” World Development Indicators, SP.POP.GROW. World Bank, Washington DC, observation 2025, retrieved 2026-11-03.back
  3. 6World Bank (ed.), “Population ages 0-14 (% of total population), Sub-Saharan Africa,” World Development Indicators, SP.POP.0014.TO.ZS. World Bank, Washington DC, observation 2025, retrieved 2026-11-03.back
  4. 7World Bank (ed.), “Population ages 65 and above (% of total population), Sub-Saharan Africa,” World Development Indicators, SP.POP.65UP.TO.ZS. World Bank, Washington DC, observation 2025, retrieved 2026-11-03.back
  5. 8World Bank (ed.), “Urban population (% of total population), Sub-Saharan Africa,” World Development Indicators, SP.URB.TOTL.IN.ZS. World Bank, Washington DC, observation 2025, retrieved 2026-11-03.back
  6. 9World Bank (ed.), “Life expectancy at birth, total (years), Sub-Saharan Africa,” World Development Indicators, SP.DYN.LE00.IN. World Bank, Washington DC, observation 2024, retrieved 2026-11-03.back
  7. 10World Bank (ed.), “Mortality rate, under-5 (per 1,000 live births), Sub-Saharan Africa,” World Development Indicators, SH.DYN.MORT, series compiled by the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation. World Bank, Washington DC, observation 2024, retrieved 2026-11-03.back
  8. 11World Bank (ed.), “GDP (current US$), Sub-Saharan Africa,” World Development Indicators, NY.GDP.MKTP.CD. World Bank, Washington DC, observation 2025, retrieved 2026-11-03.back
  9. 12World Bank (ed.), “GDP per capita (current US$), Sub-Saharan Africa,” World Development Indicators, NY.GDP.PCAP.CD. World Bank, Washington DC, observation 2025, retrieved 2026-11-03.back
  10. 13World Bank (ed.), “GDP growth (annual %), Sub-Saharan Africa,” World Development Indicators, NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG. World Bank, Washington DC, observation 2025, retrieved 2026-11-03.back
  11. 14World Bank (ed.), “Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (% of GDP), Sub-Saharan Africa,” World Development Indicators, NV.AGR.TOTL.ZS. World Bank, Washington DC, observation 2025, retrieved 2026-11-03.back
  12. 15World Bank (ed.), “Employment in agriculture (% of total employment) (modelled ILO estimate), Sub-Saharan Africa,” World Development Indicators, SL.AGR.EMPL.ZS. World Bank, Washington DC, observation 2024, retrieved 2026-11-03.back
  13. 16World Bank (ed.), “Prevalence of undernourishment (% of population), Sub-Saharan Africa,” World Development Indicators, SN.ITK.DEFC.ZS, series compiled by the Food and Agriculture Organization. World Bank, Washington DC, observation 2024, retrieved 2026-11-03.back
  14. 17World Bank (ed.), “Access to electricity (% of population), Sub-Saharan Africa,” World Development Indicators, EG.ELC.ACCS.ZS. World Bank, Washington DC, observation 2024, data updated 8 October 2026, retrieved 2026-11-03.back
  15. 18World Bank (ed.), “Access to clean fuels and technologies for cooking (% of population), Sub-Saharan Africa,” World Development Indicators, EG.CFT.ACCS.ZS. World Bank, Washington DC, observation 2024, retrieved 2026-11-03.back
  16. 19World Bank (ed.), “Renewable electricity output (% of total electricity output), Sub-Saharan Africa,” World Development Indicators, EG.ELC.RNEW.ZS. World Bank, Washington DC, latest observation 2021, retrieved 2026-11-03.back
  17. 20World Bank (ed.), “Renewable energy consumption (% of total final energy consumption), Sub-Saharan Africa,” World Development Indicators, EG.FEC.RNEW.ZS. World Bank, Washington DC, latest observation 2020, retrieved 2026-11-03.back
  18. 21World Bank (ed.), “Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions excluding LULUCF per capita, Sub-Saharan Africa,” World Development Indicators, EN.GHG.CO2.PC.CE.AR5. World Bank, Washington DC, observation 2024, retrieved 2026-11-03.back
  19. 22World Bank (ed.), “People using safely managed drinking water services (% of population), Sub-Saharan Africa,” World Development Indicators, SH.H2O.SMDW.ZS, series compiled by the WHO and UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme. World Bank, Washington DC, observation 2024, retrieved 2026-11-03.back
  20. 23World Bank (ed.), “People using safely managed sanitation services (% of population), Sub-Saharan Africa,” World Development Indicators, SH.STA.SMSS.ZS, series compiled by the WHO and UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme. World Bank, Washington DC, observation 2024, retrieved 2026-11-03.back
  21. 24World Bank (ed.), “Annual freshwater withdrawals, total (% of internal resources), Sub-Saharan Africa,” World Development Indicators, ER.H2O.FWTL.ZS. World Bank, Washington DC, latest observation 2022, retrieved 2026-11-03.back
  22. 25World Bank (ed.), “Terrestrial protected areas (% of total land area), Sub-Saharan Africa,” World Development Indicators, ER.LND.PTLD.ZS. World Bank, Washington DC, observation 2025, retrieved 2026-11-03.back
  23. 26World Bank (ed.), “Marine protected areas (% of territorial waters), Sub-Saharan Africa,” World Development Indicators, ER.MRN.PTMR.ZS. World Bank, Washington DC, observation 2025, retrieved 2026-11-03.back
  24. 27World Bank (ed.), “Forest area (% of land area), Sub-Saharan Africa,” World Development Indicators, AG.LND.FRST.ZS. World Bank, Washington DC, latest observation 2023, retrieved 2026-11-03.back
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  29. 39E. Archer, L. Dziba, K. J. Mulongoy et al. (eds.), The Regional Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services for Africa. IPBES secretariat, Bonn, 2018.back
  30. 30African Union Commission (ed.), African Union Climate Change and Resilient Development Strategy and Action Plan (2022 to 2032). African Union, Addis Ababa, 2022.back

Cite this annex

Valadbaygi, S. (Ed.). (2026). Annex B: Data appendix. In African Union Systems Risk and Resilience Report 2026: The State of the African Union’s Interdependent Systems (Baseline Edition 2026, Report No. NR-COUNTRY-AU-2026-BASELINE) [Draft under review]. The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI).

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