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Table 4 Summary of estimated costs by country

From: Towards estimating the economic cost of invasive alien species to African crop and livestock production

Country

Annual weeding costs

Reduced livestock derived income

Spodoptera frugiperda

Prostephanus truncatus

Chilo partellus

Phenacoccus manihoti

Phthorimaea absoluta

BBTV

Bactrocera dorsalis

Total

Algeria

608

2

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

611

Angola

1066

1

368

–

–

–

2

96

185

1717

Benin

452

0

376

–

–

–

36

0

18

883

Botswana

26

0

1

–

1

–

2

–

0

31

Burkina Faso

874

1

186

–

–

–

12

–

2

1075

Burundi

6

0

11

–

–

192

5

92

204

510

Côte d'Ivoire

1212

1

211

–

–

495

–

–

64

1984

Cameroon

725

0

2237

–

363

79

24

17

1

3446

Central African Republic

125

1

137

–

–

21

–

1

18

304

Chad

1052

2

51

–

–

–

–

–

21

1126

Congo, Republic of

272

0

12

–

–

1163

1

24

100

1573

Congo, Democratic Republic of

3166

0

418

–

–

0

–

16

451

4053

Djibouti

–

0

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

0

Egypt

520

9

–

–

–

–

967

–

–

1496

Equatorial Guinea

–

–

–

–

–

–

0

2

14

16

Eritrea

32

3

16

–

10

–

–

–

16

78

Ethiopia

442

22

209

–

427

–

17

–

80

1197

Gabon

148

0

9

–

–

0

–

0

1

159

Gambia, The

21

1

4

–

–

0

–

–

13

40

Ghana

703

0

277

14

–

0

–

–

94

1088

Guinea

427

0

37

–

–

0

–

–

35

500

Guinea–Bissau

0

0

4

1

–

3

–

–

24

33

Kenya

917

33

719

41

304

155

222

–

184

2576

Lesotho

69

–

–

–

8

–

8

–

–

85

Liberia

12

–

–

–

–

0

–

–

21

34

Libya

178

0

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

178

Malawi

457

1

31

59

127

1231

119

204

–

2288

Mali

1099

3

252

–

–

2

–

–

421

1776

Mauritania

5

0

–

–

–

–

–

–

13

18

Morocco

1442

5

–

–

–

–

211

–

–

1658

Mozambique

868

3

421

30

71

1587

58

36

107

3212

Namibia

365

1

9

–

–

–

5

–

13

392

Niger

2477

1

5

–

–

5

–

–

34

2522

Nigeria

10194

2

500

–

–

238

1854

79

2202

15069

Rwanda

13

1

17

6

–

59

–

0

47

143

South Sudan

174

15

26

–

–

–

–

–

–

214

Senegal

589

0

25

3

–

7

284

–

42

950

Sierra Leone

115

0

0

–

–

0

–

–

94

210

Somalia

16

5

16

–

9

–

–

–

–

46

South Africa

2275

33

1082

–

599

–

–

–

–

3989

Sudan

542

7

5

–

7

–

–

–

256

816

Eswatini

9

1

–

–

7

–

–

–

54

70

Tanzania

1268

4

644

64

144

613

175

–

526

3438

Togo

303

0

13

13

–

3

–

–

1

334

Tunisia

228

1

–

–

–

–

118

–

–

348

Uganda

391

5

609

30

233

0

1

–

371

1639

Zambia

375

4

307

9

217

399

29

0

10

1350

Zimbabwe

89

1

144

11

65

0

–

–

80

390

Total

36,342

173

9394

382

2592

6254

4149

568

5820

65,573

  1. In millions USD. For the yield losses by individual species, the values are the middle estimates, based on literature and survey responses. A dash indicates that no estimate was made, whereas a zero indicates a small estimate