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African Union 2026

非洲联盟

The African Union enters 2027 with a growing and young population, an economy that grew 4.1% in 2025 on the World Bank Sub-Saharan Africa measure, and large gaps in the services that tie water, energy, food and health together. In 2024, 55.1% of people in Sub-Saharan Africa had electricity, 22.9% had clean cooking, 32.4% had safely managed drinking water and 25.9% had safely managed sanitation.

Read the edition危害暴露
发现
12
each with its status and source
Sectors with findings
5 of 6
Infrastructure not assessed
Risk objects
4
order carries no rank
来源
51
Evidence close 30 September 2026

01 · Readings

African Union in six readings.

Six readings that frame the African Union baseline, and the eight questions this edition answers, each with its status and source.

  • 1.32billionpeople, Sub-Saharan Africa, 2025 [4]
  • 40.4%aged under 15, 2025 [6]
  • 3.2%aged 65 or over, 2025 [7]
  • 44.7%urban population, 2025 [8]
  • 2.21USD trillionGDP, current prices, 2025 [11]
  • 55member statesin the Union at evidence close [1]

02 · Sectors

Six sectors, one hexagon.

Water first, then Energy, Infrastructure, Food, Health and Biodiversity. Each count is the findings of this edition in that sector: coverage of the evidence, never a score. Infrastructure is not assessed: the edition holds no Infrastructure finding and its coupling matrix does not assess it.

  1. WAT水1 finding

    32.4% People using safely managed drinking water, 2024. 报告值

    32.4% safely managed drinking water; 25.9% safely managed sanitation (2024).

  2. ENE能源3 findings

    55.1% People with access to electricity, 2024. 报告值

    55.1% with electricity; 22.9% with clean cooking (2024).

  3. INF基础设施not assessed

    Infrastructure programme is set out in PIDA; asset condition is not assessed here.

  4. FOO食品2 findings

    22.3% Prevalence of undernourishment, 2024. 报告值

    22.3% undernourished; 49.8% of employment in agriculture.

  5. HLT卫生1 finding

    71.2 per 1,000 Under-5 mortality, per 1,000 live births, 2024. 报告值

    Under-5 mortality 71.2 per 1,000; life expectancy 62.8 years (2024).

  6. BIO生物多样性1 finding

    17.3% Land in terrestrial protected areas, 2025. 报告值

    Protected land 17.3% and sea 7.1% (2025); forest 25.7% of land (2023).

Outside the six sectors: Climate forcing 1, Development 1, Finance 1, Systemic 1.

03 · Hazard exposure

The hazards this edition reads.

The edition’s own risk objects, in its order, each read across driver, exposure, vulnerability, capacity, cascade and horizon. The hexagon marks the sectors the cascade reaches; the domain beside each is an editorial reading of its hazard words.

  • RSK-AU-CLI-001

    Drought across several member states in one season

    InferredEQL 3

    驱动因素
    failed rains and heat in several regions at once
    风险暴露
    farming households and rain-fed 系统; 49.8% of employment [15]
    脆弱性
    undernourishment 22.3% [16]
    能力
    AU climate strategy [30]; 早期预警 not assessed here
    级联
    CLI → FOO, WAT, HLT
    地平线
    seasonal

    水系统大气与天气

  • RSK-AU-ENE-002

    Household and clinic power and cooking gaps persist

    报告值EQL 3

    驱动因素
    slow pace of access gains
    风险暴露
    households without electricity or clean cooking
    脆弱性
    55.1% with electricity; 22.9% with clean cooking [17] [18]
    能力
    Mission 300 declaration [36]
    级联
    ENE → HLT, WAT, FOO
    地平线
    1 to 5 years

    No domain reading

  • RSK-AU-HLT-003

    Outbreaks cross borders faster than response

    InferredEQL 3

    驱动因素
    cholera, mpox and other pathogens
    风险暴露
    dense settlements and mobile populations
    脆弱性
    safely managed water 32.4%; sanitation 25.9% [22] [23]
    能力
    Africa CDC communiqués in operation [3]
    级联
    WAT → HLT → FOO, FIN
    地平线
    seasonal

    No domain reading

  • RSK-AU-FIN-004

    Uninsured disaster losses reach public budgets

    Expert inputEQL 2

    驱动因素
    floods, drought, storms and cyclones
    风险暴露
    households and public infrastructure
    脆弱性
    loss and insured-share data not read in this edition
    能力
    national schemes; not assessed
    级联
    CLI → FIN → public budgets
    地平线
    年度

    水系统大气与天气

Scenario · SCN-AU-CLI-01

Compound drought, price and outbreak year

Under this scenario, results describe a conditional season under stated assumptions. It is not a forecast, and no intervention described here has been carried out.

1 of 12 findings name a hazard in their text. Show them

  1. 1CLI → FOOdrought and heat cut crop and livestock output
  2. 2FOO → HLTprices rise and undernourishment grows
  3. 3CLI → WATlow flows cut safe water supply
  4. 4WAT → HLTunsafe water and weak sanitation raise outbreak risk
  5. 5ENE → HLTpower and cooking gaps limit clinic and household response
  6. 6HLT → FINpublic budgets absorb relief and response costs

04 · Couplings

How the sectors carry risk into each other.

The African Union matrix types the twenty couplings between the five core 系统. Strengths are Nexus estimates from the cited evidence and analogue events; they set the starting graph that the Q1 2027 Foundry cut will test.

Coupling matrix, from row to column
从WATENEFOOHLTBIO
WAT·StrongStrong中等Strong
ENE中等·StrongStrong中等
FOO中等Weak·StrongStrong
HLTWeakWeak中等·Weak
BIOStrong中等Strong中等·

Water: 4 couplings out, 4 in; Energy: 4 couplings out, 4 in; Food: 4 couplings out, 4 in; Health: 4 couplings out, 4 in; Biodiversity: 4 couplings out, 4 in. Infrastructure is not in the coupling matrix: none of the edition matrices types it, so it carries no value.

Cascade paths, in the edition’s order

  1. CLI → FOOdrought and heat cut crop and livestock outputInferred
  2. CLI → WAT → HLTlow flows and heat reduce safe water and raise disease riskInferred
  3. ENE → HLTno power or clean fuel raises household health and clinic riskInferred
  4. FOO → HLTprice and income shocks raise undernourishment报告值
  5. BIO → WAT, FOOforest loss changes water regulation and land useInferred

05 · Findings

Every finding of African Union.

Search, filter by sector, system or status, and sort. The address bar keeps the view, so a filtered list can be shared. Every row opens the finding at its source.

All 12 findings

Findings of African Union
ID版本Sector or system状态Statement
DEV-001非洲联盟DEV 发展 报告值Sub-Saharan Africa had 1.32 billion people in 2025, growing 2.4% a year, and 40.4% of them were under 15.
ENE-002非洲联盟ENE 能源 报告值In 2024, 55.1% of people in Sub-Saharan Africa had electricity, up from 46.4% in 2018; about 579 million had none (derived).
ENE-003非洲联盟ENE 能源 报告值Only 22.9% of people had access to clean fuels and technologies for cooking in 2024; about 994 million did not (derived).
ENE-004非洲联盟ENE 能源 报告值Renewables supplied 32.6% of electricity output in 2021, the latest year published, and 70.3% of final energy consumption in 2020.
FOO-005非洲联盟FOO 食品 报告值The prevalence of undernourishment was 22.3% in 2024, up from 19.3% in 2018; about 288 million people (derived).
FOO-006非洲联盟FOO 食品 报告值Agriculture employed 49.8% of workers in 2024 and produced 18.0% of GDP, so farm shocks reach half the labour force.
WAT-007非洲联盟WAT 水 报告值In 2024, 32.4% of people used safely managed drinking water and 25.9% used safely managed sanitation; withdrawals were 3.4% of internal resources in 2022 on average.
HLT-008非洲联盟HLT 卫生 报告值Under-5 mortality fell from 79.0 to 71.2 per 1,000 live births between 2018 and 2024, and life expectancy reached 62.8 years.
FIN-009非洲联盟FIN 金融 报告值GDP was USD 2.21 trillion in 2025 and grew 4.1%, with GDP per person of USD 1,673 in current terms.
BIO-010非洲联盟BIO 生物多样性 报告值Protected areas covered 17.3% of land and 7.1% of territorial waters in 2025, and forest fell from 27.1% to 25.7% of land between 2015 and 2023.
CLI-011非洲联盟CLI Climate forcing 报告值WMO reported 2024 as one of the warmest years on record for Africa, and the warmest decade; CO2 emissions were 0.70 tonnes per person in 2024.
SYS-012非洲联盟SYS 系统性 Expert inputThe leading compound pathway for 2027 testing is a drought year across several member states, met by high food prices and a disease outbreak.
The full ledger, without scripts

06 · Editions and calendar

The desks’ editions for African Union.

The desks’ editions for African Union
办事处版本状态标识符
GCRI Systems EvidenceAfrican Union 2026Drafted, in stewardship reviewNR-COUNTRY-AU-2026-BASELINE-v1.0.0
GRF Public DeliberationPublic Deliberation: African Union 2026筹备中
GRA Capital ReadinessCapital Readiness: African Union 2026筹备中
Standards ProgressNo edition in the 2026 Baseline cycleNot in this cycle
Academy CapabilityNo edition in the 2026 Baseline cycleNot in this cycle
Index MeasurementMeasurement: African Union 2026筹备中

Calendar · 2026 Baseline

  1. 01Call opensset by the editor
  2. 02Contribution closeset by the editor
  3. 03证据截止30 September 2026
  4. 04Desk review and releaseset by the editor
  5. 05Collection compilationset by the editor
  6. 06Collection releaseset by the editor
  7. 07更正after release, as needed

Evidence cut NQ-AU-2026-Q0-1. Next cycles: Q1 2027, Q2 2027, Q3 2027, Q4 2027; their dates are set by the editor.

07 · Take part

Read it, improve it, cite it.

更正记录

Versions and corrections
版本日期状态变化通知
NR-COUNTRY-AU-2026-BASELINE-v1.0.0October 2026DRAFTBaseline Edition 2026, inaugural annual edition,无
Data gaps3What the repository does not hold yet, and the source proposed for each
Data gaps and proposed sources
差距Shown here asProposed source
Exposure values per hazard (people, assets, hectares)the edition’s own risk objects, without valuesthe Index country profile once the Index releases values, risksindex.com/au/
The NHS-1 hazard types and their assignment to this edition’s risk objectsan editorial reading of the hazard wordsthe NHS-1 type assignment through the Registry
Infrastructure in the coupling matrixInfrastructure marked not assessedan Infrastructure row and column in the edition matrix at the next cut
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