Benin

Burkina Faso

Cabo Verde

Côte d'Ivoire

Gambia

Ghana

Guinea

Guinea-Bissau

Liberia

Mali

Niger

Nigeria

Senegal

Sierra Leone

Togo

Sub-Saharan Africa

A map highlights E C O W A S members highlighted in blue. Some of the Countries are Mali, Niger, Senegal, Nigeria, Guinea, and Côte d'Ivoire.

Member states of the Economic Community of West African States, an organization founded in 1975 to promote economic integration among its members

Countries

ECOWAS

Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Members

Australia

Fiji

Kiribati

Marshall Is.

Micronesia

Nauru

Papua New Guinea

Samoa

Solomon Is.

Tuvalu

Australia & Oceania

Dominican Republic

Haiti

Jamaica

Seychelles

St. Lucia

Trinidad and Tobago

Caribbean

Kazakhstan

Kyrgyzstan

Tajikistan

Turkmenistan

Uzbekistan

Central Asia

China

Japan

Mongolia

Nepal

South Korea

East Asia

Armenia

Azerbaijan

Georgia

Russia

Eurasia

Albania

Austria

Belarus

Belgium

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bulgaria

Croatia

Cyprus

Czechia

Denmark

Estonia

Finland

France

Germany

Greece

Hungary

Iceland

Ireland

Italy

Kosovo

Latvia

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Malta

Moldova

Montenegro

Netherlands

Northern Macedonia

Norway

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Serbia

Slovakia

Slovenia

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

Ukraine

United Kingdom

Europe

Argentina

Belize

Bolivia

Brazil

Chile

Colombia

Costa Rica

Ecuador

El Salvador

Guatemala

Guyana

Honduras

Nicaragua

Panama

Paraguay

Peru

Suriname

Uruguay

Venezuela

Latin America

Mauritania

Mauritius

São Tomé and Príncipe

Tonga

Vanuatu

None

Canada

Mexico

United States

North America

Bangladesh

Bhutan

India

Maldives

Pakistan

Sri Lanka

South Asia

Indonesia

Laos

Malaysia

Myanmar

Philippines

Thailand

Timor-Leste

Vietnam

Southeast Asia

Algeria

Egypt

Iran

Iraq

Israel

Jordan

Lebanon

Morocco

Palestine

Syria

Tunisia

Turkey

United Arab Emirates

Yemen

Southwest Asia and North Africa

Angola

Botswana

Burundi

Cameroon

Central African Republic

Chad

Comoros

Democratic Republic of Congo

Djibouti

eSwatini

Ethiopia

Gabon

Kenya

Lesotho

Madagascar

Malawi

Mozambique

Namibia

Republic of the Congo

Rwanda

South Africa

South Sudan

Sudan

Tanzania

Uganda

Zambia

Zimbabwe

Global income inequality by the G I N I index. Dark blue for the highest inequality (over 50 percent), seen in Brazil, South Africa, and Namibia. Light blue shows the lowest (below 30 percent), seen in central Europe, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, and Algeria.

Income inequality by country measured by the GINI Index. A higher number indicates greater inequality.

World

The World Bank

Income Inequality

GINI index percentage

Brunei

Kuwait

Libya

Oman

Qatar

Saudi Arabia

Equatorial Guinea

A map highlights the percent of the proven oil reserves by country with darker being the highest. Dark blue in Canada, Saudi Arabia, and Iran. Medium blue in Russia. Light blue in the U S A and China. Very light blue in India and Australia.

Petroleum reserves as a percentage of known world reserves by country

Proven Oil Reserves

Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Members	Income Inequality			Proven Oil Reserves			Households Headed by Single Mothers with Children Younger than 18 (U.S.)
Value	Class	Rank	GINI index percentage	Class	Rank	Percent of world reserves	Class	Rank	Percent