sub-Saharan
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- adjective
- /sʌb səˈhɛrən/
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subsahariano
- Both under colonialism and since the first days of independence, sub-Saharan Africa has experimented with regional cooperation for development.
- sub-Saharan Africa
- sub-Saharan African
- sub-Saharan countries
And the second one, why is sub-Saharan Africa still so poor?
- And the second one, why is sub-Saharan Africa still so poor?
- And the victims of this paralysis are the people of sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
- What does it mean about consent for studies in sub-Saharan Africa and India?
- And the poorest region in the world, sub-Saharan Africa seems to have the highest prevalence rates.
- China, Indonesia, India, sub-Saharan Africa, they're hungry.
- Otherwise, all these many of these sub-saharan countries would be by far the most prosperous ones.
- Or maybe we've got legendary stories about what happens in sub-Saharan Africa or past Ethiopia.
- And so most people don't know this, but the Arctic used to be like sub-Saharan Africa, big grasslands.
Examples
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The health outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa are often worse than in other regions.
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A rich and heterogeneous associational life thrives in most of sub-Saharan Africa, encompassing diverse functional, communal, and affective groupings.
Academic text (1992) -
And the second one, why is sub-Saharan Africa still so poor?
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Time has come to stop thinking about sub-Saharan Africa as one place.
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If you add up all of the birth rate statistics, sub-Saharan Africa has about twice the birth rate of North Africa.
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Population is growing at three percent annually in the sub-Saharan countries, the fastest rate of growth in the world.
Academic text (1993) -
And what you find, and you particularly find it in places like sub-Saharan Africa, there's not enough nitrogen to grow the crops to feed the people.
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Child malnutrition is more prevalent in South Asia than in sub-Saharan Africa (51 percent versus 31 percent in 1996).
Academic text (1998) -
Many countries in sub-Saharan Africa are experiencing rapid population growth.
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Education initiatives are critical for improving life in sub-Saharan Africa.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sub-Saharan breaks into sub- meaning 'below' and Sahara, the name of a huge desert that comes from an Arabic word for 'desert'. So, sub-Saharan means the lands 'below' the Sahara Desert, the part of Africa to the south of that desert.