Regional profile
Sub-Saharan Africa
Guinea-Bissau is part of Sub-Saharan Africa. Our editors write about the region as a whole — its story, topics and sources below cover all its countries.
View the whole region →The world's youngest region and the one that will supply most of the next generation of workers. Sub-Saharan Africa spans forty-nine countries with little in common beyond that label: stable middle-income democracies, fast-urbanising giants, and a Sahel belt where state authority is retreating. Mobile-first economies, a continental free-trade area and a scramble over critical minerals are rewriting how the region connects to the world.
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