While Africa remains the world’s most climate-vulnerable continent, the inaugural Resilient Economies Index – Africa shows that an average of 87.1% of economic activity across the continent is already resilient to climate risks (2025-2050), underscoring a powerful, often overlooked reality: adaptation is taking root at scale.

The Index assesses 54 African countries across three pillars—Economy, Policy and Finance—to create a comprehensive picture of national and regional resilience and introduces a new metric, Gross Resilient Product (GRP), which estimates the share of GDP not exposed to climate shocks. In this first edition, the best performers have already reduced GDP exposure to roughly 5%—a GRP of about 95%—providing a concrete benchmark for what “best in class” looks like as countries seek to de-risk growth. Ten African economies have achieved the highest assessed resilience performance, classified as “pioneering,” while another ten economies across all sub-regions of the continent—including Central, East, North, West, Southern Africa, and small island states—are assessed at the entry-level “foundational” stage. The top performers include Burundi, Kenya, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, and Uganda in Tier 1, followed by the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, and Tanzania in Tier 2.