YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT RATE ACROSS REGIONS — 2025
1 🇦🇪Arab States — 26.2%
2 Northern Africa — 22.6%
3 🇪🇺Northern, Southern & Western 4 4 Europe — 15.0%
5 Eastern Asia — 14.6%
6 Southern Asia — 14.3%
7 Central & Western Asia — 13.1%
8 Latin America & the Caribbean — 11.9%
9 🇪🇺 Eastern Europe — 11.1%
10 🇺🇸 Northern America — 9.8%
11 South-Eastern Asia & the Pacific — 9.5%
12 Sub-Saharan Africa — 8.4%
Youth unemployment is not just an African problem. In 2025, the Arab States recorded the highest rate globally at 26.2%, more than three times Sub-Saharan Africa’s 8.4%.
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(ILO)
🌍 WORLD MEDIAN AGE BY CONTINENT
continent — 2026 | 2050* (projected):
🇪🇺 Europe — 44.0 years | 47.5 years
🌎 Northern America — 39.8 years | 43.1 years
🌏 Oceania — 34.9 years | 39.1 years
🌏 Asia — 33.8 years | 42.7 years
🌎 Latin America & Caribbean — 33.0 years | 41.7 years
🌍 Africa — 20.8 years | 26.1 years
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(United Nations)
🌍 WHAT NIGERIA EXPORTED IN Q1 2026 — THE OIL STORY
Product — Export value (Share of total exports)
1 Crude petroleum — ₦11.20tn (52.92%)
2 Natural gas — ₦2.01tn (9.49%)
3 Urea — ₦1.37tn (6.49%)
4 Other petroleum gases — ₦1.34tn (6.33%)
5 Kerosene-type jet fuel — ₦1.33tn (6.27%)
6 Gas oil — ₦625.45bn (2.95%)
7 Cocoa beans — ₦596.90bn (2.82%)
8 Partly refined petroleum — ₦479.36bn (2.26%)
9 Motor spirit — ₦452.48bn (2.14%)
10 Other light oils — ₦329.14bn (1.55%)
11 Sesame seeds — ₦153.78bn (0.73%)
12 Soya beans (excluding seeds) — ₦129.27bn (0.61%)
13 Cashew nuts, in shell — ₦119.76bn (0.57%)
14 Photovoltaic cells assembled in modules/panels — ₦85.79bn (0.41%)
15 Electrical energy — ₦75.16bn (0.36%)
Crude petroleum alone accounted for 52.92% of Nigeria’s total exports in Q1 2026. When other major petroleum and gas products are included, the dominance of the oil and gas sector becomes even more pronounced.
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(NBS)
🇳🇬NIGERIA ELECTRICITY: WHO PAYS THEIR LIGHT BILL? — 2026/Q1
Out of every ₦100 billed by DisCos, how much did they actually collect?
1 Ikeja — ₦90.00%
2 Eko — ₦89.64%
3 Benin — ₦85.16%
4 Port Harcourt — ₦81.22%
5 Abuja — ₦80.90%
6 Ibadan — ₦75.12%
7 Yola — ₦73.79%
8 Enugu — ₦70.49%
9 Kano — ₦62.76%
10 Jos — ₦58.41%
11 Kaduna — ₦45.81%
Kaduna had the weakest collection rate: for every ₦100 billed, only ₦45.81 was collected.
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(NERC)
🇰🇪 DID YOU KNOW?
Kenya is one of the few countries where both a father and his son became president.
Jomo Kenyatta served as Kenya’s first president from 1964 to 1978.
Uhuru Kenyatta, his son, became president in 2013, 35 years after his father’s presidency ended.
Jomo and Uhuru Kenyatta remain Kenya’s only father-son duo to have served as president.
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🇳🇬 NIGERIA vs 🇰🇷 SOUTH KOREA HEALTHCARE GAP
🩺 Doctors per 1,000 people
🇳🇬 Nigeria — 0.4
🇰🇷 South Korea — 2.7
🏥 Hospital beds per 1,000 people
🇳🇬 Nigeria — 0.5
🇰🇷 South Korea — 12.8
💰 Current health expenditure per person (2023, US$)
🇳🇬 Nigeria — US$66.8
🇰🇷 South Korea — US$3136.7
👶 Life expectancy at birth
🇳🇬 Nigeria — 55 years
🇰🇷 South Korea — 84 years
👼 Under-5 mortality (per 1,000 live births)
🇳🇬 Nigeria — 105
🇰🇷 South Korea — 3
🤱 Maternal mortality (per 100,000 live births)
🇳🇬 Nigeria — 993
🇰🇷 South Korea — 4
💉 Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Service Coverage Index
🇳🇬 Nigeria — 47/100
🇰🇷 South Korea — 88/100
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(WHO, UN, UNICEF)
🚨 MOST REPORTED INTERNET CRIMES IN THE US 🇺🇸 (2025)
Internet Crime — No Of Reported Crimes:
1 Phishing/Spoofing — 191,561
2 Extortion — 89,129
3 Investment Fraud — 72,984
4 Personal Data Breach — 67,456
5 Non-Payment/Non-Delivery — 56,478
6 Tech Support — 47,794
7 Government Impersonation — 32,424
8 Identity Theft — 31,675
9 Business Email Compromise — 24,768
10 Employment Scam — 24,688
Phishing remained the most common internet crime in 2025, attracting more than 2X as many complaints as any other cybercrime.
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(FBI)
☕ COUNTRIES WITH THE BEST COFFEE — 2026
Top 10 countries — COFFEE QUALITY INSTITUTE RATING:
🇪🇹 Ethiopia — 84.88
🇰🇪 Kenya — 84.31
🇺🇬 Uganda — 84.05
🇨🇴 Colombia — 83.11
🇸🇻 El Salvador — 83.05
🇨🇷 Costa Rica — 82.79
🇮🇩 Indonesia — 82.57
🇹🇭 Thailand — 82.57
🇧🇷 Brazil — 82.41
🇹🇿 Tanzania — 82.37
📌 East Africa claims 3 of the top 4 spots — Ethiopia, Kenya, and Uganda all outscore Colombia, long seen as the coffee benchmark.
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(WPR)
TOP FOREIGN COUNTRIES FILING FRAUD REPORTS WITH THE FBI — 2025
Country — Number of fraud reports:
1 🇨🇦 Canada — 7,479
2 🇮🇳 India — 5,879
3 🇯🇵 Japan — 5,764
4 🇬🇧 United Kingdom — 4,106
5 🇩🇪 Germany — 3,056
6 🇵🇭 Philippines — 2,725
7 🇧🇷 Brazil — 2,686
8 🇫🇷 France — 2,326
9 🇨🇴 Colombia — 2,222
10 🇦🇺 Australia — 2,069
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14 🇳🇬 Nigeria — 1,219
📌 Nigeria ranked 14th out of more than 200 countries that reported fraud to the FBI's IC3 in 2025.
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(FBI IC3 2025 Report)
📱SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA DOMINATES GLOBAL MOBILE MONEY.
(Global | Sub-Saharan Africa)
•Registered Accounts — 2.3bn | 1.2bn
•Active 30-Day Accounts — 593m | 341m
•Transaction Volume — 125bn | 92bn
•Transaction Value — US$2.1tn | US$1.4tn
•Live Services — 347 | 174
Sub-Saharan Africa accounted for over half of the world’s registered mobile money accounts, 58% of active accounts, 74% of transaction volume and 67% of transaction value worldwide.
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(GSMA, 2026)
🚨 MOST COMMON MOBILE MONEY FRAUD TYPES — 2024
Fraud Type | Incidence
•Identity Fraud — 90%
•Social Engineering Schemes — 88%
•Insider Fraud — 87%
•SIM Swap Fraud — 79%
•Cyber Fraud — 60%
Identity fraud was the most prevalent form of mobile money fraud in 2024, while social engineering and insider fraud were also reported by nearly nine in ten mobile money providers.
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(GSMA)
📱MOBILE MONEY ACCOUNT OWNERSHIP
(% of adult population)
🇰🇪Kenya — 97% | 96% (Male | Female)
🇬🇭Ghana — 94% | 92%
🇺🇬Uganda — 93% | 88%
🇳🇬Nigeria — 61% | 46%
🇧🇩Bangladesh — 48% | 24%
🇵🇰Pakistan — 35% | 13%
🇪🇹Ethiopia — 29% | 13%
🇪🇬Egypt — 28% | 17%
🇮🇳India — 24% | 10%
🇱🇰Sri Lanka — 8% | 4%
Kenya had the highest mobile money account ownership among the countries surveyed, with 97% of adult men and 96% of adult women owning a mobile money account. Nigeria ranked fourth but showed one of the widest gender gaps, with ownership at 61% for men compared with 46% for women.
(GSMA, 2026)
TOTAL LOSSES (ONLINE SCAM) REPORTED TO THE FBI — 2025
Years — Amount reported loss:
2021 — $6.9 billion
2022 — $10.3 billion
2023 — $12.5 billion
2024 — $16.6 billion
2025 — $20.877 billion
Losses have grown every single year for 5 years straight, up 26% from 2024 alone and almost 3X in 4 years.
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(FBI)
🇺🇸ADULTS (60+) IN THE US LOST BILLIONS TO ONLINE SCAMS — 2025
Complaints — 201,266 (+37% YoY)
Losses — $7.748 billion (+59% YoY)
Average loss per person — $38,500
People who lost over $100K — 12,444
Top 5 loss categories:
Investment scams — $3.52 billion
Tech support scams — $1.04 billion
Business Email Compromise — $568.05 million
Government Impersonation — $413.21 million
📌 Investment fraud alone took a bigger proportion of all the money adults (60+) lost to online scam in 2025.
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(FBI)