Afrobarometer is based on face-to-face interviews with more
than 52,700 citizens in 33 countries in 2014-2015.
Poverty remains widespread in Africa. Almost half of all
respondents say they went without enough food (46 percent), clean water (46
percent) or needed medical care (49 percent) at least once or twice during the
previous year. And many of them did so “many times” or “always.”
But Africa
isn’t uniformly poor; countries differ enormously in their levels of lived
poverty. People in Gabon and Togo went without basic necessities at about 18
times the rate of those in Mauritius, and four times as frequently as residents
of Cape Verde and Algeria.
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