Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Youth and Employment in Africa - The Potential, the Problem, the Promise -- Introduction -- Stylized facts about youth and labor markets in Africa -- Policy response requires an integrated, multi-sector approach and close monitoring -- Past interventions to support young workers in Sub-Saharan Africa: What do we know? -- Expanding rural job opportunities -- Improving the investment and macroeconomic environments -- Encouraging and supporting entrepreneurship -- Improving access to education and skills -- Addressing demographic issues -- Addressing youth in violent and post conflict settings -- Improving the labor market conditions -- Conclusions -- Essay references -- Data references -- Notes -- Indicator tables -- Users Guide -- Tables -- Aggregate measure for region and sub-classifications -- Statistics -- Data consistency, reliability and comparability -- Classification of economies -- Alternative conversion factors -- Symbols -- Data presentation conventions -- Technical notes -- 1. Basic indicators -- Table 1.1 Basic Indicators -- 2. National accounts -- Table 2.1. Gross Domestic Product, Nominal -- Table 2.2. Gross Domestic Product, Real -- Table 2.3. Gross Domestic Product Growth -- Table 2.4. Gross Domestic Product Per Capita, Real -- Table 2.5. Gross Domestic Product Per Capita Growth -- Table 2.6. Gross National Income, Nominal -- Table 2.7. Gross National Income, Atlas Method -- Table 2.8. Gross National Income Per Capita -- Table 2.9. Gross Domestic Product Deflator (Local Currency Series) -- Table 2.10. Gross Domestic Product Deflator (U.S. Dollar Series) -- Table 2.11. Inflation, Consumer Price Index -- Table 2.12. Price Indices -- Table 2.13. Gross Domestic Savings -- Table 2.14. Gross National Savings -- Table 2.15. General Government Final Consumption Expenditure.

Table 2.16. Household Final Consumption Expenditure -- Table 2.17. Final Consumption Expenditure Plus Discrepancy -- Table 2.18. Final Consumption Expenditure Plus Discrepancy Per Capita -- Table 2.19. Agriculture Value Added -- Table 2.20. Industry Value Added -- Table 2.21. Services Plus Discrepancy Value Added -- Table 2.22. Gross Fixed Capital Formation -- Table 2.23. General Government Fixed Capital Formation -- Table 2.24. Private Sector Fixed Capital Formation -- Table 2.25. Resource Balance (Exports Minus Imports) -- Tables 2.26 and 2.27. Exports and Imports of Goods and Services, Nominal -- Tables 2.28 and 2.29. Exports and Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP) -- Table 2.30. Balance of Payment and Current Account -- Table 2.31. Structure of Demand -- Table 2.32. Exchange Rates and Purchasing Power Parity -- 3. Millennium Development Goals -- Table 3.1. Millennium Development Goal 1: Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger -- Table 3.2. Millennium Development Goal 2: Achieve Universal Primary Education -- Table 3.3. Millennium Development Goal 3: Promote Gender Equity and Empower Women -- Table 3.4. Millennium Development Goal 4: Reduce Child Mortality -- Table 3.5. Millennium Development Goal 5: Improve Maternal Health -- Table 3.6. Millennium Development Goal 6: Combat Hiv/Aids, Malaria, And Other Diseases -- Table 3.7. Millennium Development Goal 7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability -- Table 3.8. Millennium Development Goal 8: Develop a Global Partnership for Development -- 4. Paris Declaration indicators -- Table 4.1. Status of Paris Declaration Indicators -- 5. Private sector development -- Table 5.2. Investment Climate -- 6. Trade -- Table 6.1. International Trade and Tariff Barriers -- Table 6.2 Top Three Exports and Share in Total Exports, 2006 -- Table 6.3 Regional Integration, Trade Blocs -- 7. Infrastructure.

Table 7.1. Water and Sanitation -- Table 7.2. Transportation -- Table 7.3. Information and Communication Technology -- Table 7.4. Energy -- Table 7.5. Financial Sector Infrastructure -- 8. Human development -- Table 8.1. Education -- Table 8.2. Health -- 9. Agriculture, rural development, and environment -- Table 9.1. Rural Development -- Table 9.2. Agriculture -- Table 9.3. Environment -- Table 9.4. Climate Change -- 10. Labor, migration, and population -- Table 10.1. Labor Force Participation -- Table 10.2. Labor Force Composition -- Table 10.3. Unemployment -- Table 10.4. Migration and Population -- 11. HIV/AIDS -- Table 11.1. HIV/AIDS -- 12. Malaria -- Table 12.1. Malaria -- 13. Capable states and partnership -- Table 13.1. Aid and Debt Relief -- Table 13.2. Capable States -- Table 13.3. Governance and Anticorruption Indicators -- Table 13.4. Country Policy and Institutional Assessment Ratings -- Table 13.5. Polity Indicators -- 14. Household welfare -- Table 14.1. Burkina Faso Household Survey, 2003 -- Table 14.2. Cameroon Household Survey, 2001 -- Table 14.3. Ethiopia Household Survey, 1999/00 -- Table 14.4. Liberia Household Survey, 2007 -- Table 14.5. Malawi Household Survey, 2003/04 -- Table 14.6. Niger Household Survey, 2005 -- Table 14.7. Nigeria Household Survey, 2003/4 -- Table 14.8. São Tomé and Principe Household Survey, 2000/01 -- Table 14.9. Sierra Leone Household Survey, 2002/03 -- Table 14.10. Tanzania Household Survey, 2000/01 -- Table 14.11. Uganda Household Survey, 2005/06 -- Technical notes references -- User's Guide: Africa Development Indicators 2008/09 CD-ROM -- Introduction -- A note about the data -- Help -- Installation -- Operation -- Features and instructions -- Home -- Query -- Result -- Map -- License agreement -- Back Cover.