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Numbers of Worker deaths in Countries in Africa
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The ILO estimates that in Africa, a total of 61,237 workers died at work - 41,876 in Agricultural sector, 5,635 in the industrial sector, and 13,726 in the Service sector

The table below is ordered by the total numbers of deaths in each country

  Nos of Deaths Reported by
Government

ILO estimated
numbers of total
deaths

Agriculture Industry Service
Nigeria  - 9,631 4,644 768 4,219
Ethiopia 13 5,596 4,680 333 583
Democratic Republic of the Congo  - 4,148 2,925 512 711
Egypt 149 3,884 1,414 1,073 1,397
United Republic of Tanzania  - 3,435 2,880 256 299
Kenya  - 3,238 2,734 168 337
South Africa 581 2,643 931 552 1,160
Sudan  - 2,308 1,559 70 679
Uganda  - 2,168 1,845 80 243
Morocco 9 1,993 1,166 350 477
Mozambique
 -
1,945 1,640 86 219
Ghana
 -
1,852 1,215 216 421
Madagascar
 -
1,513 1,276 67 170
Angola
 -
1,272 986 96 191
Cameroon
 -
1,261 945 125 191
Mali  - 1,105 968 16 122
Burkina Faso 12 1,095 979 32 84
Niger  - 1,092 956 24 112
Malawi  - 1,087 923 24 140
Zimbabwe 174* 1,045 731 80 234
Burundi  - 886 828 13 45
Rwanda  - 886 837 19 30
Senegal  - 865 729 38 97
Zambia 0* 792 342 80 370
Somalia  - 791 633 47 111
Tunisia 114 654 187 195 273
Guinea 21* 644 540 48 56
Chad  - 500 428 10 62
Benin 10* 442 328 23 90
Côte d'Ivoire  - 388 271 24 93
Togo 7* 366 254 14 98
Sierra Leone
 -
287 216 31 41
Central African Republic
 -
261 224 6 31
Mauritania
 -
151 79 17 55
Liberia
 -
149 111 9 29
Lesotho
 -
131 36 37 58
Gabon  - 123 81 14 28
Guinea-Bissau  - 104 89 3 13
Namibia 7 100 53 16 31
Mauritius 8 94 16 30 48
Gambia  - 87 76 4 7
Djibouti  - 60 48 5 7
Botswana 85 44 6 8 29
Comoros  - 30 17 2 10
Cape Verde  - 24 14 4 6
Swaziland 749* 22 7 6 9
Equatorial Guinea  - 21 15 2 4
Eritrea 7* 12 10 1 1
Sao Tome and Principe  - 6 4 0 2
Seychelles 1 6 1 1 4
Congo (Brazzaville)  -  - 0 0 0

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