Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people.

In sub-Saharan Africa, fewer than 1 in 5 girls make it to secondary school.

Half of the hospital beds in sub-Saharan Africa are filled with people suffering from what are generally known as water-related diseases.

In India there are more poor people in three states... than there are in the whole of sub-Saharan Africa.

One in four sub-Saharan Africans is Nigerian, and it has 140 million dynamic people - chaotic people - but very interesting people.

One of the challenges for sub-Saharan Africa is that markets are of modest size. This makes regional integration important.