## 3 Results
### Competitiveness Evaluation Results of French-Speaking African Countries
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**Nation** & **Core Competencies** & **Basic Competitiveness** & **Auxiliary** & **Comprehensive** \\  & & & **Competitiveness** & **Competitiveness** \\ \hline Algeria & 0.5185 & 0.5330 & 0.5320 & 0.5232 \\ Benin & 0.4937 & 0.5376 & 0.5440 & 0.5089 \\ Burkina Faso & 0.4938 & 0.5141 & 0.5370 & 0.5029 \\ Burundi & 0.4884 & 0.5080 & 0.5315 & 0.4974 \\ Equatorial Guinea & 0.4954 & 0.5245 & 0.5722 & 0.5101 \\ Togo & 0.4910 & 0.5296 & 0.5449 & 0.5054 \\ Congo (Brazzaville) & 0.5146 & 0.5295 & 0.5427 & 0.5209 \\ Democratic Republic of the Congo & 0.4956 & 0.5315 & 0.5447 & 0.5088 \\ Dilbioui & 0.4947 & 0.5281 & 0.5451 & 0.5075 \\ Guinea & 0.4917 & 0.5043 & 0.5370 & 0.4993 \\ Gabon & 0.4956 & 0.5353 & 0.5466 & 0.5099 \\ Cameroon & 0.4975 & 0.5373 & 0.5402 & 0.5110 \\ Comoros & 0.4825 & 0.5115 & 0.5372 & 0.4948 \\ Ivory Coast & 0.4975 & 0.5574 & 0.5451 & 0.5160 \\ Rwanda & 0.4911 & 0.5098 & 0.5341 & 0.4999 \\ Madagascar & 0.4929 & 0.5176 & 0.5318 & 0.5025 \\ Mali & 0.4928 & 0.5109 & 0.5317 & 0.5010 \\ Mauritius & 0.5080 & 0.5279 & 0.5685 & 0.5189 \\ Mauritania & 0.4919 & 0.5162 & 0.5401 & 0.5025 \\ Morocco & 0.5199 & 0.5405 & 0.5482 & 0.5275 \\ Niger & 0.4909 & 0.4943 & 0.5335 & 0.4962 \\ Senegal & 0.4984 & 0.5294 & 0.5457 & 0.5104 \\ Seychelles & 0.5027 & 0.5227 & 0.5690 & 0.5142 \\ Tunisia & 0.5165 & 0.5348 & 0.5420 & 0.5233 \\ Chad & 0.5196 & 0.4213 & 0.5433 & 0.5000 \\ Central Africa & 0.4661 & 0.4062 & 0.5356 & 0.4600 \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 4: A summary of the evaluation values of 26 French-speaking countries in Africa. Figure 1: French francophone core competitiveness (**a**), basic competitiveness (**b**), auxiliary competitiveness (**c**), and comprehensive competitiveness (**d**) spatial distribution pattern. In terms of the spatial distribution pattern of national comprehensive competitiveness, the comprehensive competitiveness of French-speaking African countries shows the spatial pattern characteristics of \"high in the north and south, low in the east and west\", and \"high in the coastal areas, low in the inland areas\". The three French-speaking countries in North Africa all have high levels of comprehensive competitiveness. This is due to the fact that the three North African countries are separated from Europe by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, connected to the hinterland of the African continent to the south, and bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west. Morocco controls the Strait of Gibraltar, the passage between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean. Its strategic location is extremely important and is widely valued by European and American countries, making economic and trade exchanges between the three countries and European and American countries relatively convenient. Most of the population of the three countries is concentrated on the Mediterranean or Atlantic coasts, where the climate is mild, the environment is beautiful, and the tourism industry is developed. At the same time, the three countries are rich in mineral resources, have developed mining industries, and have established primary processing industries based on oil and phosphate. The export of a large amount of mineral resources has brought huge foreign exchange income and investment in related infrastructure construction to the three countries [56]. Among them, Algeria's proven oil reserves are about 1.7 billion tons, ranking 15 th in the world, and most of them are light oil with high oil quality. The proven recoverable reserves of natural gas are 4.58 trillion cubic meters, ranking 10 th in the world. The export of oil and natural gas has brought huge economic benefits to the country [57]. Morocco's phosphate reserves are 110 billion tons, ranking first in the world. It also has rich reserves of metal mines, coal mines, and oil shale resources. Tunisia's proven phosphate reserves are 2 billion tons, ranking among the top in the world [58].