Statistics on the African Economically Active Population

Statistics on the African Economically Active Population (EAP) and its components, have both economic and social uses.


They are used to describe and analyse the supply of labour (a) towards the formulation, implementation and monitoring of macro-economic and micro-economic policies and programmes and (b) in human resource development planning.

Statistics provide measures of the supply side of the labour market such as the size and characteristics of the EAP, of labour input into production, of the structure and conditions of employment, and of the extent of utilisation of available labour resources (volume and persons).