Table 3:
Economic impact of cancer in Africa, 2019
| Gross domestic product per capita (current US$) in 2019 | Disability-adjusted life-years in 2019 due to cancer | Annual economic loss due to cancer (US$) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Algeria | 3974 | 675 351·37 | 2 683 822 080 |
| Angola | 2791 | 437 545·22 | 1 221 069 091 |
| Benin | 1219 | 171 621·13 | 209 280 413 |
| Botswana | 7961 | 62 882·26 | 500 626 120 |
| Burkina Faso | 787 | 343 883·48 | 270 600 408 |
| Burundi | 261 | 188 907·83 | 49 351 693 |
| Cape Verde | 3604 | 16 979·39 | 61 190 017 |
| Cameroon | 1507 | 453 127·92 | 683 067 776 |
| Central African Republic | 468 | 94 601·62 | 44 264 802 |
| Chad | 710 | 208 617·20 | 148 022 313 |
| Comoros | 1370 | 15 931·59 | 21 828 639 |
| Congo (Brazzaville) | 2280 | 105 770·32 | 241 153 065 |
| Côte d’Ivoire | 2276 | 376 763·46 | 857 639 202 |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | 581 | 1 208 556·80 | 701 829 319 |
| Djibouti | 3415 | 25 421·09 | 86 811 112 |
| Egypt | 3019 | 1 818 126·39 | 5 489 297 794 |
| Equatorial Guinea | 8132 | 18 561·13 | 150 937 696 |
| Eritrea | ND | 131 667·07 | ND |
| Eswatini | 3895 | 30 153·20 | 117 437 059 |
| Ethiopia | 856 | 1 423 557·95 | 1 218 225 179 |
| Gabon | 7767 | 41 312·16 | 320 872 100 |
| The Gambia | 778 | 34 268·37 | 26 654 347 |
| Ghana | 2202 | 574 756·78 | 1 265 680 853 |
| Guinea | 963 | 263 870·29 | 254 064 846 |
| Guinea-Bissau | 697 | 32 812·12 | 22 879 725 |
| Kenya | 1817 | 742 113·02 | 1 348 083 118 |
| Lesotho | 1118 | 66 160·64 | 73 976 281 |
| Liberia | 622 | 63 944·21 | 39 766 454 |
| Libya | 7686 | 161 532·13 | 1 241 527 756 |
| Madagascar | 523 | 391 962·21 | 205 136 976 |
| Malawi | 412 | 369 334·08 | 152 000 305 |
| Mali | 879 | 302 825·46 | 266 186 005 |
| Mauritania | 1679 | 55 823·58 | 93 752 625 |
| Mauritius | 11 099 | 39 180·43 | 434 873 007 |
| Morocco | 3204 | 810 571·00 | 2 597 146 491 |
| Mozambique | 504 | 496 392·69 | 249 968 850 |
| Namibia | 4957 | 46 717·80 | 231 601 542 |
| Niger | 554 | 241 094·49 | 133 541 045 |
| Nigeria | 2230 | 2 526 342·71 | 5 633 387 262 |
| Rwanda | 820 | 236 562·22 | 193 986 992 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 1947 | 4 472·55 | 8 706 461 |
| Senegal | 1447 | 238 943·94 | 345 711 491 |
| Sierra Leone | 528 | 123 650·14 | 65 229 608 |
| Somalia | 320 | 307 111·93 | 98 287 540 |
| South Africa | 6001 | 1 467 214·84 | 8 805 344 786 |
| South Sudan | ND | 143 777·59 | ND |
| Sudan | 442 | 563 088·34 | 248 606 657 |
| Tanzania | 1122 | 1 076 035·85 | 1 207 443 296 |
| Togo | 679 | 121 649·41 | 82 635 258 |
| Tunisia | 3317 | 260 511·13 | 864 233 584 |
| Uganda | 794 | 742 524·84 | 589 817 982 |
| Zambia | 1305 | 346 869·74 | 452 686 951 |
| Zimbabwe | 1464 | 376 787·79 | 551 612 016 |
The economic loss due to loss of productivity and death due to cancer was calculated based on a method employed by the WHO Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, which valued one disability-adjusted life year at one year per-capita gross domestic product.26 ND=no data.