Useful sources about Africa

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).

The website of global policy and research organisation Human Rights Watch details human rights abuses in Africa in the form of research reports, videos and maps.

A 2011 World Bank reports that includes aggregated data and trends for public spending on water and sanitation in sub-Saharan Africa.

A combined databank from the World Health Organisation, UNICEF and the World Bank on child malnutrition across the world.

World Bank data on government healthcare expenditure by country.

In 2017, the WHO launched the Global Dementia Observatory (GDO) to track progress on the provision of services to people with dementia.

World Health Organisation data on mortality rates of children under five, per 1,000 live births.