Sub-Saharan Africa comprises the parts of the African continent lying south of the Sahara Desert, which has functioned as a major geographic and historical barrier separating the region from North Africa since roughly 3900 BCE. It spans Central, East, Southern and West Africa. International bodies count its membership differently: the UN Development Programme applies the sub-Saharan classification to 46 of Africa's 55 countries, while the UN, the World Health Organization and the World Bank draw the line slightly differently, producing counts that range from about 46 to 49 depending on the institution. Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia and Western Sahara are excluded, forming North Africa instead. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Which African countries are left out of Sub-Saharan Africa?
Under the UN M49 scheme the seven Northern African countries and territories are Algeria; Egypt; Libya; Morocco; Sudan; Tunisia and Western Sahara.
The United Nations geographic scheme known as M49 splits Africa into Northern Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa. It puts Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia and Western Sahara in Northern Africa and treats the rest of the continent as Sub-Saharan, grouped into Eastern, Middle, Southern and Western Africa. Note that under this scheme Sudan counts as Northern Africa.
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The END Fund (Ending Neglected Diseases) is a private non-profit organisation dedicated to combating the five most common neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) that cause up to 90% of the NTD burden in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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The campaign aims to prevent malaria infections and deaths by providing malaria education, insecticide-treated bed nets, anti-malarial drugs, diagnostics, and other interventions to vulnerable and remote communities in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
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Since the Bantu languages are spoken across most of Sub-Saharan Africa, Southern Bantoid comprises 643 languages as counted by Ethnologue, though many of these are mutually intelligible.
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Pseudaspididae is a small family of elapoid snakes, containing only two species (each in their own monotypic genus) from sub-Saharan Africa.
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Population (2021): 1,137,938,708
Introduction
Sub-Saharan Africa is the areas and regions of the continent of Africa that lie south of the Sahara.
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United Nations M49 Standard Country or Area Codes for Statistical Use (Geoscheme)
United Nations Statistics DivisionAssociated With: East Africa, Africa regional structure
Sub-Saharan Africa (202): Eastern Africa (014), Middle Africa (017), Southern Africa (018), Western Africa (011)
Associated With: Central Africa, Africa regional structure
Sub-Saharan Africa (202): Eastern Africa (014), Middle Africa (017), Southern Africa (018), Western Africa (011)
Associated With: Southern Africa, Africa regional structure
Sub-Saharan Africa (202): Eastern Africa (014), Middle Africa (017), Southern Africa (018), Western Africa (011)
Associated With: West Africa, Africa regional structure
Sub-Saharan Africa (202): Eastern Africa (014), Middle Africa (017), Southern Africa (018), Western Africa (011)
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