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Data from the UN’s World Economic Situation and Prospects (2015) report shows that 13 of the top 20 countries by annual growth rate of real GDP in 2014 are from Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), with Sierra Leone (10.4%) and Zambia (8.3%) leading the world. Projections for 2015 reveal similar trends with 12 countries from SSA poised to be in the top 20. At the regional level, SSA (5.4%) was the second fastest growing major world region by real GDP – second only to East and South Asia’s 6.1% and quadruple Europe’s 1.4%. Read more here…