Nearly 50 million Africans could be driven into extreme poverty in the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, the African Development Bank (AfDB) said Tuesday.
Roughly a third of the continent — 425 million people — was already expected to live below the international poverty line of $1.90 per day in 2020, the AfDB said in its African Economic Outlook, forecasting that the situation would further deteriorate.
But the health crisis and ensuing lockdowns have destroyed jobs, crippled incomes and devastated economies continent-wide. The Abidjan-based institution, one of the world’s five largest multilateral development lenders, expects Africa to suffer a major recession, with GDP forecast to contract between 1.7 percent to 3.4 percent this year. Late last month the International Monetary Fund forecasted that sub-Saharan Africa’s GDP would shrink by 3.2 percent, and that incomes would drop to levels last seen in 2010.Nigeria, the continent’s most populous country, would see the greatest rise in poverty, it said.
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