Top 10 African countries with the best roads 2022. Kenya Ranks high

Africa has over the years been a laughing stock when it comes to infrastructure development, economic performance, and social welfare.

This is slowly becoming a norm of the past since many African countries have aggressively embarked on infrastructure development as a means to steer them to upper-middle-income countries and first-class countries respectively.

Namibia has been ranked as the country with the best quality of roads in Africa for a fifth consecutive time, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report Index of 2020 on the quality of road infrastructure.

Namibia scored a ranking of 5.2 out of 7, beating South Africa and Rwanda, which both scored a ranking of 5.0. Namibia has an impressive global ranking at 23 – ranking above some of the advanced countries such as China, India, and Italy (they ranked at 42, 46, and 56 respectively).

The best ranking countries in the world are the United Arab Emirates, Singapore, and Switzerland which all had a ranking of 6.2.

Namibia’s Road Authority (RA), a state-owned entity, said that this favorable ranking can be attributed to two factors – the determined maintenance of existing road infrastructure and the construction of new road networks.

Governments of African countries with quality roads have much invested in them to contribute to sustainable development. If the roads are not good, access to essential services such as medical care or transportation of agricultural produce would be significantly affected.

It is, therefore, necessary to note that there cannot be fast growth without proper infrastructure and roads being key players.

The following are the countries that made it into the top ten list according to the Global Economy analysis.

1. Namibia (score 5.2) world ranking 23

   

2. South Africa (score 5.0) world ranking 29

   

3. Rwanda (score 5.0) world ranking 31

   

4. Cote d’Ivoire (score 4.7) world ranking 42
   

5. Mauritius (score 4.7) world ranking 44
   

6. Morocco (score 4.4) world ranking 55

   

7. Kenya (score 4.2) world ranking 61
   

8. Botswana (score 4.1) world ranking 6

   

9. Cape Verde (score 4.1) world ranking 66

   

10. Senegal (score 4.0) world ranking 71