African Nations Dominate Top 10 Economic Growth Spots in 2024

  • IMF sees African nations filling six of top 10 growth spots
  • Heavyweights South Africa and Nigeria also forecast to pick up
Customers at a stall at the Adjame market in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.Photographer: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Bloomberg
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Africa faces economic headwinds this year, but some of the continent’s brightest sparks are shading it in a more hopeful light.

Six of the top-10 performing economies in the world are forecast to come from Sub-Saharan Africa in 2024, according to the International Monetary Fund.