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Highest unemployment rate

The development: Highest unemployment rate: Cabo Verde 11.9% (2025).

What the evidence says: One figure, one country, one year. Source: World Bank WDI.

Question to watch: Which of these gaps matters most for your country?

Unemployment 2025

The development: Unemployment 2025: where does your country sit?

What the evidence says: Five classed ranges, with the number of countries in each. Lowest Niger 0.4% · highest Cabo Verde 11.9%.

Question to watch: Which of these gaps matters most for your country?

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• Meridian Maps · Unemployment trends · Highest unemployment rate
• Highest unemployment rate
• Unemployment 2025

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Unemployment · regional finding

The development: Lowest unemployment rate: Niger 0.4% (2025).

What the evidence says: A single national observation does not explain causes or household experience.

Question to watch: What local evidence would explain this national pattern?

Unemployment · 2025

The development: Compare available West African country observations.

What the evidence says: National values do not show differences within countries.

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• Unemployment · regional finding
• Unemployment · 2025

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Lowest electricity access

The development: Lowest electricity access: Niger 21% (2024).

What the evidence says: One figure, one country, one year. Source: World Bank WDI.

Question to watch: Which of these gaps matters most for your country?

Access to electricity 2024

The development: Access to electricity 2024: where does your country sit?

What the evidence says: Five classed ranges, with the number of countries in each. Lowest Niger 21% · highest Cabo Verde 98%.

Question to watch: Which of these gaps matters most for your country?

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• Lowest electricity access
• Access to electricity 2024

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How countries compare with the regional mean

The development: current US$ · 2025 · Fixed class edges, so years can be compared directly.

What the evidence says: The median and mean answer different questions.

Question to watch: Why do the mean and median differ here?

Reading the GDP per capita map

The development: A national average cannot show income distribution within a country.

What the evidence says: Values are current US dollars per person for 2025. Fixed class edges support comparison across years; they do not measure household income or purchasing power.

Question to watch: Which country would you examine first?

GDP per capita

The development: current US$ · 2025 · Fixed class edges, so years can be compared directly.

What the evidence says: Cabo Verde leads at $5,796; Niger is lowest at $775 — a 7.5× gap.

Question to watch: Which contrast on the map deserves an explanation?

What GDP per capita leaves out

The development: current US$ · 2025 · Fixed class edges, so years can be compared directly.

What the evidence says: The 16-country mean is not population-weighted.

Question to watch: What does this comparison leave out?

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• West Africa GDP per capita · 2025
• How countries compare with the regional mean
• Reading the GDP per capita map
• GDP per capita
• What GDP per capita leaves out

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Unemployment by country · 2025

The development: Equal-count classes make relative positions easier to compare.

What the evidence says: National estimate; not a measure of job quality or informal employment.

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• Unemployment across West Africa
• Unemployment by country · 2025

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Electricity access varies.

The development: 16 / 16 countries · 2024

What the evidence says: Color encodes access rate, not policy success or cause.

Question to watch: Which countries share an access band?

Electricity access: two extremes.

The development: Niger 21.3% · Cabo Verde 98.4%

What the evidence says: 77.1 percentage-point range · 2024

Question to watch: What might explain the range without assuming a cause?

A national rate is not a local map.

The development: This figure describes the share of people with electricity access nationally. It cannot show which neighborhood or household is left out.

What the evidence says: Color encodes access rate, not policy success or cause.

Question to watch: What local evidence would test this national pattern?

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• Where electricity reaches
• Electricity access varies.
• Electricity access: two extremes.
• A national rate is not a local map.