50 Things You Don’t Know About Africa

• South Africa has 924 mobile phones per 1000 people; Eritrea has 22 per 1000 people.
• The highest connection charge for a business phone is $366.6 in Benin; the lowest is in Ghana at $0.7.
• In Sierra Leone 3 persons per 1,000 are Internet users
• For the period 2007, Zimbabwe has the highest adult literacy rate (91.2 percent); Mali and Burkina Faso have the lowest (28.7 percent)
• Cape Verde receives the highest net ODA per capita ($438.2); Nigeria receives the lowest ($9.5).

See all 50 things you don’t know about Africa on the World Bank website.