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Table 4 Summary of estimated costs by country (in millions USD). For the yield losses by individual species, the values are the middle estimates, based on the literature and survey responses. A dash indicate that no estimate was made, whereas a zero indicates a small estimated value

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

Country

Annual-weeding-costs (million USD)

Reduced-grazing-potential

Damage caused (in millions USD) by

Total (million USD)

Spodoptera-frugiperda

Prostephanus-truncatus

Chilo-partellus

Phenacoccus-manihoti

Tuta-absoluta

BBTV

Bactrocera-dorsalis

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-the

272

0

12

1163

1

24

100

1573

Congo,-Democratic-Republic-of-the

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

10,194

2

500

238

1854

79

2202

15,069

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

8

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

282

2592

6254

4149

568

5820

65,573