Portal of Public Use Datasets on Sub-Saharan Africa
This data portal was created by the NBER Africa Project, co-directed by Sebastian Edwards, Simon Johnson, and David N. Weil, as a way to systematize public-use data on Sub-Saharan Africa. There are hundreds of datasets available on the internet but no easy way to find them, or to know at a glance what they contain.
This portal categorizes datasets with tags for easy searching. For example, if you select "Botswana" and "governance" then click search, datasets with both of those tags will appear in the results. For convenience, tags are sorted by type, source, keyword, and country.
By type: Demographic • Development • Governance/institutions • Macroeconomics • National • Social indicators
By source: Government • Multilateral • Non-profit • Other • Think tank
By keyword: G-20 • GDP • HIV/AIDS • MDGs • National Statistical Office • PPP • SME • accountability • agricultural technology • agriculture • aid • birth rate • capacity building • child labor • children • citizenship • civil liberties • civil society • colonial • commodities • communication • conditional cash transfer • conflict • corruption • credit • crisis • culture • currency • debt • decentralization • democracy • deworming • direct investment • disability • diseases • drugs • economic • economics • effectiveness • efficiency • elections • emissions • employment • empowerment • energy • enforcement • entrepreneurship • environment • equality • ethnicity • exchange • exchange rate • expenditures • external • family • farming • fertility • fertilizer • finance • financial markets • fiscal • food security • foreign exchange • freedom • fuel • gas • gender • government finances • growth • harmonization • harvesting • health • housing • human development • human rights • immigration • income • indicators • inequality • informality • information • infrastructure • innovation • institution • insurance • interest rate • international investment position • investment climate • irrigation • journal • knowledge • labor • labor force • land • law • life expectancy • literacy • loans • malaria • management • manufacturing • market • microfinance • migration • mining • mobile • monetary • money supply • mortality • national accounts • natural resources • nutrition • oil • peace • policy • political • political economy • political theory • population • poverty • prevention • prices • property • prosperity • provision • public • public awareness • public goods • public sector • remittances • reserves • resource • rights • risks • rule of law • sanitation • savings • science • securities • security • service delivery • settlements • sexual behavior • social change • social protection • social security • society • surveillance • sustainable development • tariff • technology • trade • transparency • transportation • tuberculosis • urbanization • vocational education • water • worker productivity
By country: Angola • Benin • Botswana • Burkina Faso • Burundi • Cameroon • Cape Verde • Central African Republic • Chad • Comoros • Congo, Dem. Rep. • Congo, Rep. • Cote d'Ivoire • Djibouti • Egypt • Eritrea • Ethiopia • Gabon • Gambia, The • Ghana • Guinea • Guinea-Bissau • Kenya • Lesotho • Liberia • Madagascar • Malawi • Mali • Mauritania • Mauritius • Mayotte • Mozambique • Namibia • Niger • Nigeria • Rwanda • Sao Tome and Principe • Senegal • Seychelles • Sierra Leone • Somalia • South Africa • South Sudan • Sudan • Swaziland • Tanzania • Togo • Uganda • Zambia • Zimbabwe
This portal is a continuous work in progress. Suggestions of datasets to
add are welcome and encouraged. Please email africa@nber.org.
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