The quality of education and training provided by African countries has worsened since 2014, leaving many of the continent's growing population of young people ill-prepared to enter the job market, an influential report by the Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG), the most comprehensive survey of its kind on the continent, said.
"This has resulted in the burgeoning youth population being faced with increasing struggles when entering the job market," researchers at the Mo Ibrahim Foundation wrote, "The current pace of progress is going to fall behind demographic needs as the majority age group in Africa now is under-15."
"African governments have on average not managed to translate GDP growth into economic opportunities for citizens," it said. "Progress since 2014 runs behind the rapidly growing working age population."
Providing affordable quality healthcare for all citizens was still far off and the rising spread of undernourishment was a major area of concern,
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