Portal of Public Use Datasets on Sub-Saharan Africa
A service provided by the NBER Africa Project
Co-Chairs: Sebastian Edwards, Simon Johnson, and David N. Weil
The NBER Africa Project, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is a 5-year grant to study economic success stories in Sub-Saharan Africa. One goal of the project is to systematize available data about the continent. There are hundreds of datasets available on the web but no easy way to find them, or to know at a glance what they contain.
This portal is designed to facilitate research on Sub-Saharan Africa by categorizing datasets with tags. For example, if you enter the tags "+Botswana+governance" in the search bar, all the datasets that are tagged with both of those words will appear in the search results. You may enter as many tags prefaced by "+" as you wish. For convenience, tags are sorted by type, source, country, and keyword below.
By Type •  By Country •  Demographic •  Development •  Institutions and Governance •  Macroeconomics •  Social Indicators
By Source •  Government •  Multilateral •  NGO •  Other •  Think tank
By Countries •  Angola •  Benin •  Botswana •  Burkina Faso •  Burundi •  Cameroon •  Cape Verde •  Central African Republic •  Chad •  Comoros •  Congo, Dem. Rep. •  Congo, Rep. •  Cote d'Ivoire •  Djibouti •  Eritrea •  Ethiopia •  Gabon •  Gambia •  Ghana •  Guinea-Bissau •  Guinea •  Kenya •  Lesotho •  Liberia •  Madagascar •  Malawi •  Mali •  Mauritania •  Mauritius •  Mayotte •  Morocco •  Mozambique •  Namibia •  Niger •  Nigeria •  Rwanda •  Sao Tome and Principe •  Senegal •  Seychelles •  Sierra Leone •  Somalia •  South Africa •  South Sudan •  Sudan •  Swaziland •  Tanzania •  Togo •  Uganda •  Yemen •  Zambia •  Zimbabwe
By Keywords •  accountability •  agricultural technology •  agriculture •  aid •  capacity building •  child labor •  chlorine •  civil society •  commodities •  conditional cash transfer •  culture •  currency •  debt •  decentralization •  democracy •  demographic •  development •  deworming •  direct investment •  disability •  diseases •  drugs •  economics •  education •  effectiveness •  efficiency •  elections •  emissions •  employment •  empowerment •  energy •  entrepreneurship •  environment •  exchange rate •  expenditures •  external •  family •  farming •  fertility •  fertilizer •  filter •  finance •  financial markets •  fiscal •  food security •  foreign exchange •  fuel •  G-20 •  gas •  GDP •  gender •  governance •  government finances •  harmonization •  harvesting •  health •  housing •  income •  industry •  inequality •  infrastructure •  innovation •  institutions •  insurance •  interest rate •  irrigation •  journal •  labor force •  labor •  life expectancy •  literacy •  loans •  macroeconomics •  malaria •  manufacturing •  market •  MDGs •  microfinance •  migration •  mining •  mobile •  money supply •  mortality •  national accounts •  national statistics •  natural resources •  Non-profit •  nutrition •  oil •  political economy •  population •  poverty •  PPP •  prevention •  prices •  private sector •  provision •  public goods •  public sector •  reserves •  risks •  rule of law •  sanitation •  savings •  science •  service delivery •  settlements •  SME •  social change •  social indicators •  social protection •  social security •  springs •  Sub-Saharan Africa •  Sub-Saharan •  surveillance •  sustainable development •  tariff •  technology •  trade •  transparency •  transportation •  urbanization •  vital statistics •  vocational education •  water •  worker productivity
This portal is a continuous work in progress. Suggestions of datasets to add are welcome and encouraged. Please email Elisa Pepe at epepe@nber.org.