The Validity of Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average Approach to Forecast the Spread of COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa

<table class="table-group" id="tab1"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_left">Regions</td><td class="align_center">List of countries in the region</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Northern Africa (7)</td><td class="align_center">Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Sudan, and Tunisia</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Central Africa (9)</td><td class="align_center">Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, Congo Republic—Brazzaville, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and São Tomé and Principe</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Southern Africa (5)</td><td class="align_center">Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, and Swaziland</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">East Africa (18)</td><td class="align_center">Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, South Sudan, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Western Africa (16)</td><td class="align_center">Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, MAli, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="2"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="table-fn"><td><div>Source: own computation, 2021.<br/></div></td></tr></table>

<div>African regions with their respective numbers and a list of countries.</div>

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Table 1: The Validity of Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average Approach to Forecast the Spread of COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa 