Useful sources about Africa

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.

Transparency International’s Global Corruption Index scores 180 countries on how corrupt their public sectors are perceived to be. The index allows users to view results in a colour-coded map and contains results tables, research analysis, regional analysis and other resources.

The International Monetary Fund’s Fiscal Prudence and Profligacy database allows users to download raw data on government spending and other government fiscal policy decisions. Users can explore the database with interactive maps, and drill down to deficits and debts in each country.

The Access, Bottlenecks, Costs and Equity (ABCE) research project is a multi-country study of the drivers of health system performance and costs of care in sub-Saharan Africa.

African Health Observatory and the World Health Organisation research on the current state of health financing in the WHO African region. The paper responds to current challenges in measuring, observing and analysing data on health financing.

A review article of the prevalence of child mental health problems in Sub-Saharan Africa using data sources from MEDLINE, EMBASE and PsychInfo.

A research report by the Harvard University Effective Altruism Student Group on mental health systems in sub-Saharan Africa. It relies on data from the Global Burden of Disease Study.

A consolidated databank of statistics from the World Health Organisation, UNICEF, the World Bank and others that provides a modelled estimate of maternal mortality ratios from 1990 to 2015.