Health

Africa – and sub-Saharan Africa in particular – lags far behind the rest of the world in terms of public health and access to healthcare. This point is illustrated by a number of statistics:

• In 2015, life expectancy in Africa was 60.0 years in Africa compared 76.8 years in Europe and 71.4 years in the world as a whole. (Source: WHO)
• In 2015 there were 296 million cases and 731,000 deaths from malaria; 90% of these occurred in Africa. (Source: WHO)
• 25.6 million people in Africa were living with HIV/AIDS in 2016, out of a world total of 36.7 million. (Source: WHO)