InferenceAfrica
Tracking AI’s impact across Africa.
Understand AI’s impact on jobs, infrastructure and access across Africa. Explore how work is changing, where the infrastructure is developing, and who can access and afford AI. Every figure carries its source, date and evidence status.
54 country profiles · 53 with AI-specific indicator data · 10 AI-specific measures
Signals are monitored daily; evidence registers are released monthly. Latest published data compiled: 2026-10-05 · Release v2026.10.
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The three pillars
Selected figures from each pillar, with their limitations. Every figure carries its unit, its geography, its date, its evidence status and its source, or it does not appear.
Jobs
24.6%of tasks economically exposed to AI
modelled Academic research · Tier 2
Garg, Crosta and Baier, Global Automation Atlas (2026)
South Africa 51.0% to South Sudan 3.3%
The evidence →Access
187%of a monthly minimum wage, for an illustrative AI workload
derived Derived from academic and official inputs · Tier 2
Computed from the median frontier rate card and statutory minimum wages. The cheapest card in the band puts the same month at 75%, the dearest at 375%.
Ghana 440% to Morocco 55%
The evidence →Infrastructure
0.6%Africa’s share of global data-centre capacity
derived External industry estimate
Africa Data Centres Association, continental estimate. Share of capacity, not a count of facilities or AI-only infrastructure.
The evidence →Terms: modelled means computed by a third party from published inputs; derived means calculated from published inputs, with the calculation or reporting source identified; measured means observed and in service. Announced capacity is never counted as operational. How the record decides.
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What changed?
Generated on every build from the record’s own logs. Nothing here is written by hand, and “nothing changed” is printed like any other result.
Added to the registers
- No register rows added in the latest build.
0 rows added in the latest build · revision log has 120 builds
Signals recorded
- Access 35 in the last seven days
- Infrastructure 41 in the last seven days
- Jobs 26 in the last seven days
102 signals in the last seven days
Values changed or corrected
- Nigeria cloud and AI investment target status evidence detail
No information→ Government mobilization target, not committed capital or project capex. - Nigeria cloud and AI investment target energised date
2028-08→ No information - Nigeria cloud and AI investment target source
https://iafrica.com/nigeria-targets-750m-in-cloud-and-ai-infrastructure-investment-within-24-months-under-new-→ https://fmcide.gov.ng/federal-government-unveils-national-digital-cloud-policy-to-drive-investment-digital-sovereignty-and-government-transformation/ - 21 values changed
- 8 rows removed
- 0 papers added in the last seven days
Every change is logged with its prior value. How the record is revised
Latest signals
Headlines from the daily monitoring feed. Signals point to sources; they are not evidence-register entries until separately checked and recorded.
Infrastructure
- FG targets 6 months to fund community-owned telecom towers in rural NigeriaInfrastructure and compute
- NCC, stakeholders seek Right of Way cost cuts to advance Nigeria's digital connectivityInvestment and funding
- MTN Ghana to deploy new spectrum to accelerate 5G expansionConnectivity and bandwidthSource review: evidence added — Open page read in full. The awarded spectrum price and band allocations are recorded; no capacity, coverage or capex figure is claimed from them.
Access
- Banks top AI spending as telcos struggle to show returnsAccess and affordability
- NITDA warns organisations, staff against sharing sensitive data with public AI toolsAccess and affordability
- REDMI Note 17 Series: Xiaomi launches smartphone that can last for 3 days in LagosDevices and hardware
Jobs
- Vesti enters its next phase, expanding from global talent mobility into AI-native legal servicesSkills and talent
- ‘Cannot Wait Another Five Years’: TUT Dialogue Presses for AI Implementation Against 62.8% Youth UnemploymentEmployment and outsourcing
- Economists expect AI to weigh on college grads' wages: IndeedEmployment and outsourcing
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