By Oluchi Chibuzor
Countries in Africa have been urged to strive for improvement in the areas of data aggregation, developmental techniques and empowerment of people to enable them meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.
Partner at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Tolu Oyekan, made the call while highlighting challenges hindering development in the region and proffering possible solutions to address the numerous problems in the continent.
Oyekan said: “The UN has set a target of 2030 to reach the SDGs and in effect eliminate the developmental obstacles to growth and minimum livelihoods that hold back Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and other countries around the world. For SSA, that is an ambitious deadline.”
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I was born in Nigeria in the early 1980s. Based on forecasts at the time, I should be starting the final decade of my life now.
But my odds have improved quite a bit. Indeed, it is a testament to the advances over these past 40 years in healthcare and standards of living – in the overall quality of life for at least some people – that the average life expectancy for a person born today in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has increased by 10 years.
In some countries, like Rwanda, which was beset by a devastating civil war in the 1990s, the life expectancy gains are even more dramatic. Part of the reason for the rise in average life expectancy is the fall in early childhood mortality. Death rates among SSA children under five have declined to fewer than 80 per 1000 live births in 2018 from more than double that figure in 1990. This progress is laudable.
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