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Editorial direction, concept and publication: Jean-Axel Désiré Tohougbé · ADG Lab.

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1. Meridian GDP Report · West Africa · Highest GDP per capita
2. Highest GDP per capita
3. GDP per capita 2025
4. GDP per capita · key figures

Visual asset credits

• Highest GDP per capita — Boundaries: Natural Earth; flags: authentic national flags
• GDP per capita 2025 — Boundaries: Natural Earth
• GDP per capita · key figures — Original ADG data-led typography and visualization; no external image asset.
• GDP per person, mapped — Original ADG map-led cover using the series map; detailed data and asset sources are on the separate credit page.

Editorial references

• World Development Indicators · NY.GDP.PCAP.CD

Editorial direction, concept and publication: Jean-Axel Désiré Tohougbé · ADG Lab.

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Cards in this edition

1. ADG Insight Maps · West Africa · Lowest electricity access
2. Lowest electricity access
3. Access to electricity 2024

Visual asset credits

• Lowest electricity access — Photo: TheNyxx, CC BY, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence credit retained in caption metadata and on the separate edition credits page.
• Access to electricity 2024 — Boundaries: Natural Earth
• Where electricity reaches — Original ADG map-led cover using the series map; detailed data and asset sources are on the separate credit page.

Editorial references

• World Development Indicators · EG.ELC.ACCS.ZS

Editorial direction, concept and publication: Jean-Axel Désiré Tohougbé · ADG Lab.

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Cards in this edition

1. Meridian Maps · Ten-year regional trends · Highest inflation in the region
2. Access to electricity: ten years of change
3. Consumer price inflation: ten years of change
4. Real GDP growth: ten years of change
5. GDP per person: ten years of change
6. Unemployment: ten years of change
7. Highest inflation in the region
8. GDP growth 2025
9. Inflation 2025
10. Unemployment 2025

Visual asset credits

• Highest inflation in the region — Boundaries: Natural Earth; flags: authentic national flags
• GDP growth 2025 — Boundaries: Natural Earth
• Inflation 2025 — Boundaries: Natural Earth
• Unemployment 2025 — Boundaries: Natural Earth
• Ten years. Five signals. — Original ADG chart-led cover using the published decade series; data sources and limitations are on the separate credit page.
• GDP per person: ten years of change — Chart generated by Axel Dev Lab from World Bank WDI national observations; no external imagery.
• Real GDP growth: ten years of change — Chart generated by Axel Dev Lab from World Bank WDI national observations; no external imagery.
• Unemployment: ten years of change — Chart generated by Axel Dev Lab from World Bank WDI national observations; no external imagery.
• Consumer price inflation: ten years of change — Chart generated by Axel Dev Lab from World Bank WDI national observations; no external imagery.
• Access to electricity: ten years of change — Chart generated by Axel Dev Lab from World Bank WDI national observations; no external imagery.

Editorial references

• World Development Indicators · FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG
• World Development Indicators · NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG
• World Development Indicators · SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS
• World Development Indicators · NY.GDP.PCAP.KD · 2015:2025
• World Development Indicators · NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG · 2015:2025
• World Development Indicators · SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS · 2015:2025
• World Development Indicators · FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG · 2015:2025
• World Development Indicators · EG.ELC.ACCS.ZS · 2015:2024

Editorial direction, concept and publication: Jean-Axel Désiré Tohougbé · ADG Lab.

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Cards in this edition

1. West Africa GDP per capita · 2025
2. How countries compare with the regional mean
3. Reading the GDP per capita map
4. GDP per capita
5. What GDP per capita leaves out

Visual asset credits

• West Africa GDP per capita · 2025 — Original ADG map-led cover using the series map; detailed data and asset sources are on the separate credit page.
• How countries compare with the regional mean — data: World Bank
• Reading the GDP per capita map — Natural Earth 1:10m Admin 0 · data: World Bank
• GDP per capita — Natural Earth 1:10m Admin 0 · data: World Bank
• What GDP per capita leaves out — data: World Bank

Editorial references

• World Development Indicators · NY.GDP.PCAP.CD · 2025

Editorial direction, concept and publication: Jean-Axel Désiré Tohougbé · ADG Lab.

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Cards in this edition

1. Unemployment across West Africa
2. Unemployment by country · 2025

Visual asset credits

• Unemployment across West Africa — Original ADG map-led cover using the series map; detailed data and asset sources are on the separate credit page.
• Unemployment by country · 2025 — Natural Earth boundary geometry · data: world_bank_api_v2

Editorial references

• World Development Indicators · SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS

Editorial direction, concept and publication: Jean-Axel Désiré Tohougbé · ADG Lab.

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Cards in this edition

1. Where electricity reaches
2. Electricity access varies.
3. Electricity access: two extremes.
4. A national rate is not a local map.

Visual asset credits

• Where electricity reaches — Original ADG map-led cover using the series map; detailed data and asset sources are on the separate credit page.
• Electricity access varies. — Natural Earth 1:50m · public domain
• Electricity access: two extremes. — Authentic flags: flag-icons v7.3.2 · MIT
• A national rate is not a local map. — TheNyxx · A power line in Ibadan · CC BY 4.0 · cropped · Check source and rights

Editorial references

• World Development Indicators · EG.ELC.ACCS.ZS

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Consumer price inflation · 2025

Compare available West African country observations.

National values do not show differences within countries.

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Consumer price inflation · regional finding

Lowest inflation (deflation): Niger -4.5% (2025).

A single national observation does not explain causes or household experience.

What local evidence would explain this national pattern?

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Inflation across West Africa

A country comparison of annual consumer-price changes in 2025.

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Unemployment · 2025

Compare available West African country observations.

National values do not show differences within countries.

Read this data brief: https://library.axeldevlab.com/node/281

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