declerke/East-Africa-Economic-Lens

# 🌍 East Africa Economic Lens: GDP Growth, Inflation, FDI & Trade Intelligence Dashboard for EAC-5 **East Africa Economic Lens is a production-grade Streamlit BI dashboard that ingests 15 World Bank WDI macroeconomic indicators for Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Rwanda across 25 years (2000–2024) via the World Bank REST API v2, stores the results as a typed Parquet file, and renders 9 interactive Plotly charts across 4 analysis tabs — covering GDP growth trajectories, per-capita wealth gaps, inflation dynamics, remittances vs FDI capital flows, trade balance composition, multi-country FDI comparisons, and a normalized 5-dimension competitiveness radar — all within a custom dark-theme Streamlit interface with real-time sidebar filters, auto-generated insight callouts, and a one-click Excel export; the entire pipeline and dashboard run at zero cost, sourcing exclusively from the World Bank's open API with no paid data subscriptions, no synthetic values, and no placeholder charts.** | Metric | Value | |---|---| | Countries | Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Rwanda (EAC-5 core) | | Year Range | 2000–2024 (25 years) | | Total Rows | 125 (5 countries × 25 years) | | Indicators | 15 World Bank WDI series | | Charts | 9 interactive Plotly charts | | Dashboard Tabs | Growth & Wealth · Macroeconomic Stability · Trade & Investment · Export Data | | Lines of Code | 782 | | Data Source | World Bank REST API v2 (open, free, no API key) | | Tech Stack | Python 3.11 · Streamlit 1.45 · Plotly 6.x · Pandas · PyArrow | | Cost to Run | $0 | --- ## 🎯 Project Goal East Africa is one of the fastest-growing economic regions on earth, yet per-country comparisons are typically scattered across PDF reports, spreadsheet downloads, and static World Bank portals that do not enable side-by-side interactive analysis. This project answers a single practical question: **how do Kenya and its four EAC peers compare across the macroeconomic indicators that development economists, investo …