GAMBIA BURKINA FASO RWANDA MOZAMBIQUEMALAWI

KENYAUGANDASENEGAL

The Global Innovation Index 2014

www.globalinnovationindex.org

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA PUNCHING ABOVE ITS WEIGHT

Countries performing over 10% higher than expected for their level of gross domestic product. Of the 7 new innovation learners this year, 5 are from Sub-Saharan Africa.

42%

26%

16 %

11 % 5%

Sub-Saharan AfricaSouth East Asiaand Oceania

NorthernAfrica andWestern Asia

Europe Central andSouthern Asia

SHARE OF INNOVATION LEARNERS PER REGIONS

In 2014, five new countries join Kenya, Uganda and Senegal as “innovation learners”. They all show rising levels of innovation, particularly in the areas of human capital and research and market sophistication:

Sub-Saharan Africa now accounts for almost 50% of countries with the status of “innovation learner”– more than any other region:

INNOVATION LEARNERS