West Africa's mobile ecosystem generated more than $50 billion in economic value in 2018, equivalent to 8.7 per cent of the region's Gross Domestic Product (GDP), according to the Global System Mobile Communications Association (GSMA).
This statistics, released yesterday at the on-going 'Mobile 360 - West Africa' event, in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, was contained in the GSMA's Mobile Economy report.
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