Saturday, March 4, 2017

2016 African Private Equity Data Tracker

The African Private Equity and Venture Capital Association published in February 2017 its "2016 Annual Private Equity Data Tracker."

It recorded 919 private equity deals in Africa from 2011 through 2016 with a value of $22.7 billion. East Africa and the Horn received a respectable 18 percent of these deals but they accounted for only 8 percent of the dollar value of the deals. By dollar value, multi-region deals led with 36 percent, West Africa with 27 percent, southern Africa with 15 percent, North Africa with 13 percent, and Central Africa with 1 percent.