The International Social Security Association (ISSA) is pleased to announce the release of updated country profiles for Africa. The profiles summarize policy data on the parameters, financing, and administration of mandatory statutory programmes in 50 African countries in a new, more structured, format.
Covering the nine branches of social security, the ISSA country profiles include details on scheme type, relevant laws, legal coverage, financing, supervisory and administrative institutions, benefits, and qualifying conditions. The new country profiles are currently available in PDF format and reflect the situation as of 1 July 2022.
Following the new country profiles for Asia and the Pacific earlier this year, this release is part of ISSA’s ongoing transformation of the country profile data, which will provide members, researchers, experts and policymakers with a unique resource on social security systems around the world. Updated country profiles will gradually be published for all other regions in 2024.