# AI-workload affordability: country coverage and limits

**Retrieved:** 2026-09-26
**Geographic scope:** all 54 countries in the Observatory's African scope.
**Source:** World Bank World Development Indicators API, NY.GNP.PCAP.CD; API metadata last updated 2026-07-13.

For each country, the register keeps the latest non-empty GNI-per-capita value returned by the World Bank API and its observation year. The comparison uses that value only when the observation year is within the latest five calendar years (2021 or newer for this capture). Older observations remain visible in the source register but are not used to calculate a current affordability percentage.

This release has a recent GNI observation for 52 of 54 countries. Eritrea's latest non-empty observation is from 2011; South Sudan's is from 2015. Their AI-workload share of monthly GNI is therefore published as **No information**. No values are interpolated or carried forward as current.

The monthly comparison uses 20 standard workloads at the median frontier rate card. GNI per capita is a national-average economic indicator, not median earnings, household disposable income, or a typical worker's wage. It is a consistent comparison base, not a claim about what any person can afford. Minimum-wage hours are a separate calculation and appear only where the Observatory has both a comparable statutory wage and an official exchange-rate input. Missing inputs remain blank.

The World Bank identifies the GNI-per-capita series as country statistics, national accounts, OECD data and/or World Bank staff estimates, and licenses its data under CC BY 4.0.