Between 2010 and 2015, Africa's gross domestic product (GDP) grew at 3.3 percent a year as a whole, compared with an average of 5.4 percent between 2000 and 2010. This decline has mainly been in two groups of countries that generate about 60 percent of African GDP: a sharp fall in the oil price has undermined growth in oil-exporting countries, and the political turmoil of the Arab Spring has badly affected northern economies.
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