Useful sources about Africa

A study that evaluates the quality of nationally representative data on older Africans. It examines the accuracy of age data collected from different sources.

The World Bank's gender data portal provides labour force and income level data by gender.

The World Religion Database provides demographic statistics and data sources on international religious information, including for the African continent.

A UN database that provides country data on population by religion, sex and urban/rural residence. It only includes data from available population and housing censuses reported to the UN Statistics Division.

A World Bank population databank that includes graphs, maps and comparisons between population indicators in sub-Saharan Africa.

World Population Prospects, a database from the UN Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, is often used for population calculations and forecasts.