North Africa consists of 7 countries which include Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia, Western Sahara. The population in North Africa is set to grow by 15% by 2030 and reach 286 million from 246 million. This increase in population will result in more school-going children in the coming years. Using our forecasting tool, ABiQ is able to predict that the number of both primary and secondary school going students will grow by 25.7% and cross over 11 million by 2030.
Infrastructure Investment required
An increase in the number of students will require more classrooms. As per the standards set by UNICEF, a classroom should only accommodate 40 students. Based on this benchmark a total of 285,535 new classrooms will be required to accommodate the new students.
As the construction costs vary across the North African region, we used an average of $37,500 per classroom as the cost of construction. Based on this, the region will require $10.7 billion to build 285,535 classrooms over the next 10 years.
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Primary school enrolment (%)
| Algeria | 97.63517 |
| Egypt, Arab Rep. | 97.03257 |
| Libya | N/A |
| Morocco | 99.09904 |
| Tunisia | 97.80391 |
Source: World Bank
