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African business leaders expect start-up boom
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Start-ups across the continent are currently valued at around $7.6 billion – around 0.2% of the total $3.8 trillion value of start-ups globally.
African business leaders are predicting a boom in start-up businesses across the continent as the number of working-age people launching new firms expands, new research for blockchain-based mobile network operator World Mobile shows.
Start-ups across the continent are currently valued at around $7.6 billion – around 0.2% of the total $3.8 trillion value of start-ups globally - but nearly seven out of 10 (69%) of senior African business executives believe that will more than double in the next five years.
The rise in the predicted value of start-ups will be driven by growth in the numbers of people starting companies, the study with African business leaders from companies with combined annual revenues of more than $6.75 billion found.
Before the pandemic, around 22% of working-age adults on the African continent started new businesses. But the research among senior executives based in Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, and Tanzania found they expect that number to grow.
Business leaders worry new business creation could be blocked by cumbersome regulations and a lack of digital skills due to poor internet connectivity seen as the biggest issues ahead of limited funding and fragmented markets.
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