Useful sources about Africa

The UNHCR refugee agency's Population Statistics Database provides data, up to 2014, on global populations of concern, as defined by the UN, such as refugees and asylum seekers. Interactive country data is visualised in map format.

Refugee agency UNHCR Africa's website provides news and other resources on emergency zones across the continent. A country filter allows users to search refugee information by African country, including policy documents and statistics from Refworld, a UNHCR documentation initiative.

A World Bank affiliated project, the Africa Power Mining database shows existing and planned mines across the continent by mineral, ore grade and project size. It synthesises existing data from annual reports, mining news sites, the US Geological Survey and others.

The State of Mining in Africa is a synthesised desktop-based report looking at investment trends and challenges on the continent. It includes royalty tax rates by country.

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.