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The Future of Water in African Cities

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Table A2.1  Cities and Selection Criteria

No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

Country Angola Benin Burkina Faso Cameroon Democratic Republic of Congo Republic of Congo Côte d’Ivoire Ethiopia Ghana Guinea Kenya Malawi Mozambique

Nigeria

Senegal South Africa Sudan Tanzania Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe

City Luanda Cotonou Ouagadougou Douala Yaoundé Kinshasa Lubumbashi Mbuji-Mayi Brazzaville Abidjan Addis Ababa Accra Kumasi Conakry Nairobi Blantyre Lilongwe Maputo Lagos Abuja Ibadan Kano Dakar Johannesburg Cape Town Durban Khartoum Dar es Salaam Kampala Lusaka Harare

Population (‘000 inhabitants) 4,775 841 1,324 2,108 1,787 9,052 1,544 1,489 1,505 4,175 3,453 2,332 1,826 1,645 3,363 733 866 1,655 10,572 1,994 2,835 3,393 2,856 3,618 3,357 2,839 5,185 2,498 1,597 1,421 1,663

Population growth rate 1995–2010 5.87 2.82 7.02 4.56 5.45 4.18 4.06 4.47 4.19

Selection criteria* P,G WB WB P,G,WB G,WB P,G,WB G,WB G,WB G,WB

3.29 2.06 3.27 5.04 3.30 4.08 n.a. 4.75 1.37 3.93 8.93 2.39 2.23 3.66 2.38 2.52 2.33 2.53 4.77 3.72 4.30 1.30

P,G P,WB P,G,WB G G,WB P,G,WB WB G,WB P,WB P,G,WB P,G P P P,G P P P P P,G,WB G G,WB WB

Source: World Bank. Note: Selection criteria: P = population size (> 2 million); G = growth rate (>3 percent annual growth); WB = World Bank presence. n.a. = not available.


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