Monitoring Africa's developmentprogress and aid flows requires basic empirical data thatcan be readily used by analysts. African developmentindicators 1997, a World Bank publication, provide astarting point for accomplishing that task. This revised andexpanded statistical collection provides the most detailedcollection of data on Africa available in one volume. Thisvolume, which is the fifth in a series that began withAfrican economic and financial data in 1989, and wasfollowed by African development indicators 1992, 1994-95,and 1996, presents data from 53 African countries, arrangedin 292 separate tables or matrices for more that 400development indicators. In addition, 24 charts facilitatedata interpretation and cross-country comparison. Theindicators are grouped into 15 chapters: background datanational accounts, prices and exchange rates, money andbanking, the external sector, external debt and relatedflows, government finance, agriculture, power orcommunication and transportation, labor force andemployment, public enterprises, aid flows, socialindicators, environmental indicators, and household welfareindicators. Each chapter includes a brief introduction onthe nature of the data and their limitations followed bytechnical notes that define the indicators and identifyspecific sources.
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