Africans Want Age Limits for Govt Heads (But Don't Reject Retirement-Age Leaders): Africa
On average across 34 countries, three-quarters of Africans are in favour of a maximum age limit for heads of government. About the same percentage support minimum age limits for these chief public servants.
Maximum age limits have majority support in all surveyed countries, exceeding nine out of 10 citizens in Mali , Benin , and Senegal .For a minimum age limit, the mean across 34 countries is 39 years, ranging from a low of 34 years in Morocco to a high of 42 years in Ghana, Guinea, Namibia, and Tanzania. The modal proposed minimum across 34 countries is 40 years, ranging from 30 years in the Gambia and Morocco to 40 years in 29 out of the 34 countries.
For a maximum age limit, the mean across 34 countries is 66 years, ranging from 58 years in Morocco to 72 years in Zimbabwe. The modal maximum age is 70 across the 34 countries. Over the years, some policy actors have blamed aspects of African countries' development challenges on the advanced ages of their leaders, though no theory or empirical evidence establishes such a relationship .
In all but one of the 28 African countries that chose presidents or prime ministers during the period 2018-2021, the winners were more than 50 years old (see Table A.2 in theGet the latest in African news delivered straight to your inbox
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