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After COVID-19, Africa is Poorer Today –World Bank

Africa Faces Make-Or-Break Decade
MUHAMMAD JJUMBABy MUHAMMAD JJUMBAJanuary 23, 2026No Comments2 Mins Read
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KAMPALA – At first glance, the global economy looks like it has pulled off a quiet miracle.

After years of pandemic scars, war-driven shocks, and inflation fears, the world managed to grow by 2.7 percent in 2025. Inflation is easing. Capital markets have steadied. Artificial intelligence is drawing fresh investment. By the World Bank’s own measure, global income per person is now about 10 percent higher than it was before COVID-19.

But step away from the averages, and a more troubling picture comes into focus.

The World Bank’s Global Economic Prospects report describes a recovery that has split the world in two. Advanced economies and parts of Asia are moving forward—slowly, unevenly, but still forward. Much of Sub-Saharan Africa, by contrast, is treading water in a rising tide.

More than a third of low-income countries are poorer today than they were five years ago. One in four developing economies has yet to recover its pre-pandemic income levels. This is not a temporary lag; it is a widening fault line.

For Africa, the numbers are especially sobering. Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa reached about 4 percent in 2025 and is expected to rise modestly to 4.3 percent in 2026. On paper, that sounds respectable. In reality, it barely keeps pace with population growth, leaving millions stuck where they were—or worse.

Uganda sits squarely inside this story. While the World Bank does not single it out in headline tables, its profile is familiar: a low-income, frontier-market economy with strong demographic momentum and fragile economic buffers. Growth alone will not be enough. Without faster job creation, especially for young people, the country risks spending the next decade running just to stand still.

The danger, the report suggests, is complacency. Global resilience can be misleading. It hides the fact that Africa’s recovery is not a rebound—it is a pause.

And in economics, pauses have consequences.

 

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