Africa: Digital Entrepreneurship Will Re-Write Africa's Path to Gender Economic Parity - Report

The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), in its new report, themed: 'Financing Women's Digital Entrepreneurship: A Pathway to Closing Africa's Economic Gender Gap' has revealed that women's economic participation in Africa has fallen 0.6 percentage points below 2022 levels, extending the region's timeline to reach economic parity from 120 years to approximately 170 years.

The report draws on BCG's Africa Women's Voices Survey 2025, which surveyed around 3,000 women and men across six major African economies - South Africa, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Kenya, Morocco and Egypt - alongside data from the WEF Global Gender Gap Report 2025 and Africa's startup funding landscape.