AMU: Arab Maghreb Union With only five countries, AMU has the smallest number of member states of any regional economic community in Africa. Because of this, the scores of the region’s outliers…
SADC: Southern African Development Community SADC’s average score for regional integration is quite low. Nine of SADC’s 16 members perform around the mid-point. SADC has three high performers,…
IGAD: Intergovernmental Authority on Development IGAD assembles eight countries that range from the economically small Somalia to Kenya, a continental powerhouse. On overall regional…
ECOWAS: Economic Community of West African States ECOWAS scores moderately well on regional integration, but its low score on the productive dimension suggests that vast improvements could be…
ECCAS: Economic Community of Central African States With an overall score of 0.442, ECCAS member countries are moderately integrated in their region. Unlike most regional economic communities,…
EAC: East African Community EAC is relatively well integrated. It performs most strongly on the free movement of people dimension, but macroeconomic integration is not far behind. No EAC member…
COMESA: Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa On overall regional integration, COMESA’s average is low. Its top performer scores moderately. COMESA’s best performance is in trade…
CEN-SAD: Community of Sahel–Saharan States ARII records a low level of integration in CEN-SAD, whose highest achiever reaches only a little above the mid-point. Similar to ECOWAS and SADC, CEN-SAD…
The most integrated countries in Africa tend to perform well on at least three dimensions of regional integration. The least integrated countries tend to have poor performance on all…
