ABSTRACT
This chapter assesses, to the extent data allow it, the process of green industrialisation in SSA countries between 2000 and 2017 using international databases. The chapter starts with a critique of the quality of databases in terms of completeness, relevance, accuracy, timeliness, and coherence with the most attention paid to completeness, which hindered progress in meeting the targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and is now hindering monitoring progress in meeting industry-related SDG targets. The data quality issues are least severe for two out of the five conventional economic indicators but extremely severe for the other three economic indicators, moderately severe for the one employment indicator, and extremely severe for the six environmental indicators except for energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions. The chapter then assesses the feasibility of meeting conventional economic, employment, and energy targets by the year 2030, and finds that they are overly optimistic for most SSA countries.
