Useful sources about Africa

UNICEF’s database on child marriage in Africa provides statistics, reports, brochures, videos and journal articles on marriage before the age of 18.

This scorecard, developed in 2016 by AIDS Accountability International, gives a brief assessment of child marriage in Africa. The scorecard examines data on reported child marriage prevalence, the minimum age of sexual consent, policies on legal marital age and education budgets across the continent.

UNICEF published the Profile of Child Marriage in Africa report in 2015 shedding light on the realities of child marriage on the continent with well-visualised data.

A gender pay gap calculator for the continent, developed by Code for Africa. The tool uses data from the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2017.

The Global Gender Gap Report compares 144 countries in their quest towards gender parity. It is published annually by the World Economic Forum. The 2018 report used contextualised data through a collaboration with LinkedIn.

UN Women’s global database on violence against women contains African country level information such as the prevalence of data in different forms, countries’ rankings on gender equality indexes and various reports submitted by UN human rights associations.

A World Bank report that aims to reframe fallacies related to African agriculture, specifically misquoted data on women working in the agriculture sector. It uses data from the Living Standards Measurement Study (Integrated Surveys on Agriculture Initiative) (LSMS-ISA).

Constituting the fifth part of the Global Study on Homicide 2019, this booklet gives an overview of the scope of gender-related killing of women and girls. It provides in-depth analysis of killings perpetrated within the family sphere and examines forms of gender-related killings perpetrated outside the family sphere, such as the killing of women in conflict and the killing of female sex workers. The booklet explores the scale of intimate partner/family-related killings of women and girls, and describes different forms of gender-related killings of women. It also looks at the characteristics of the perpetrators of intimate partner killings, the link between lethal and non-lethal violence against women, and the criminal justice response.