United Nations Economic Commission for Africa

Annex IV COUNTRY GROUPINGS

FAO uses the M49 country and regional groupings, available at https://unstats.un.org/unsd/methodology/m49.

In this report, Central Africa refers to the M49 Middle Africa grouping.

The groupings are:

  • Central Africa: Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Sao Tome and Principe;
  • Eastern Africa: Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, South Sudan, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe;
  • Northern Africa: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia;
  • Southern Africa: Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa;
  • Western Africa: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo.