Namibia leads the continent with a road‑quality score of 5.3 out of 7, the highest rating among African nations according to the World Economic Forum’s Executive Opinion Survey republished in the 2025‑26 VizAtlas edition.

Egypt follows in second place with a score of 5.1, while Rwanda holds the third slot at 4.8, both figures drawn from the same VizAtlas data set.

Statista’s 2024 Africa index independently confirms Namibia and Egypt as the top two, assigning them scores of 5.57 and 5.53 respectively.

Kenya appears at seventh place, tied with Senegal and Tanzania at 4.1, making it the highest‑ranked of the three‑way tie in the VizAtlas ordering.

The ranking reflects perceived road condition and extensiveness, not direct pavement measurements, and is based on business executives’ ratings rather than physical surveys.

The underlying survey vintage is 2019; the 2025‑26 VizAtlas edition republishes those scores with the year of the edition noted, not the survey year.

Small, well‑funded networks tend to outperform larger economies; Namibia, Rwanda, Mauritius, Cabo Verde and Seychelles rank high partly because their road networks are compact enough for consistent maintenance.

South Africa, despite having Africa’s longest road network, ranks sixth on quality with a score of 4.5, illustrating the distinction between network length and perceived quality.

Benin is excluded from the top ten because the single‑vintage series used scores it at 3.2, whereas Statista’s 2024 index lists it at 5.0; the ranking avoids mixing vintages to maintain consistency.