Africa Energy Outlook, a special report of the World Energy Outlook, is the IEA’s comprehensive and detailed work on energy across the African continent, with a particular emphasis on sub-Saharan Africa. The 2019 version of the outlook includes detailed energy profiles of 11 countries - Angola, Côte d'Ivoire, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania.

The report indicates that current policy and investment plans in African countries are not enough to meet the energy needs of the continent’s growing population but would leave 530 million people on the continent still without access to electricity by 2030. With the right policies, however, Africa could become the first continent to develop its economy mainly through the use of modern energy sources. Drawing on rich natural resources and advances in technology, the continent could by 2040 meet the energy demands of an economy four times larger than today’s with only 50% more energy.