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This paper presents an analysis of changes in elephant population estimates selected from the two most recent reports of the African Elephant Database (AED).Sites selected for analysis were restricted to surveyed areas in which successive estimates had been made using comparable methods.The resulting selection consisted of surveys conducted in eastern and southern Africa between 1994 and 2002, which together cover a large percentage of the total elephant population for which estimates are available in these two regions.The results suggest a significant overall increase (p < 0.0002) for the eastern and southern African sites combined.The overall increase in the southern African estimate was significant (p < 0.0004), but the increase in eastern African estimates was not statistically significant.It is concluded that savanna elephant populations in eastern and southern Africa are more likely to have increased than to have declined in the years leading up to the African Elephant Status Report 2002; important caveats become evident, however, when interpreting these findings. RESEARCH RsumCet article analyse les changements dans les estimations de populations d'lphants selon les plus rcents rapports de la Base de Donnes de l'Elphant africain (BDEA).Les sites choisis pour cette analyse ont t limits aux aires tudies dans lesquelles on a fait des estimations successives en utilisant des mthodes comparables.Les rsultats de la slection reprennent des tudes menes en Afrique orientale et australe entre 1994 et 2002 qui, ensemble, couvrent un grand pourcentage de la population d'lphants pour laquelle des estimations existent dans ces deux rgions.Les rsultats suggrent une augmentation gnrale significative (p < 0,0002) pour les deux sites combins.L'augmentation globale pour les estimations en Afrique australe tait significative (p < 0,0004), mais l'augmentation des estimations en Afrique orientale n'tait pas statistiquement significative.On en conclut que les populations d'lphants de savane en Afrique orientale et australe sont plus susceptibles d'avoir augment que diminu durant les annes qui ont prcd le Rapport 2002 sur le Statut de l'Elphant africain ; il reste d'importantes mises en garde, cependant, quant l'interprtation de ces dcouvertes.