The Role of Exports for Income and Job Creation in Sub-Saharan African Countries: New Evidence using the Africa Supply and Use Tables Database

Using input-output techniques, we document five key stylized facts: i) African economies face increased international competition, during a period in which the production process has been further fragmented; ii) An increasing share of domestic value-added exports (income content of exports) comes from manufacturing and services; iii) The income content of exports is becoming increasingly diversified, especially between 1990 and 2007, but continuing albeit at a slower pace from 2007 to 2019; iv) A rising number of manufacturing jobs are sustained by exports, increasing from 4.1 million workers in 1990 to 8.6 million workers by 2019; v) Inter-industry linkages are expanding, where the rising linkages are particularly observed in services sectors.

The dataset is hosted separately on Dataverse and can be accessed through: Africa Supply and Use Tables (ASUT) Database DOI: 10.34894/IMKXNT