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GRID3 Health Facilities v2.0 vs Sub-Saharan Africa Public Health Facilities Database

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GRID3 Health Facilities v2.0Sub-Saharan Africa Public Health Facilities Database
Category
Datasets
Datasets
Type
Health
Health
Country
🇳🇬 Nigeria
🌍 Pan-African
Docs status
Docs live
Docs live
Licensing
Pricing
Free
Free / open
Verified
Verified
Unverified
Last verified
10 Oct 2026
10 Oct 2026
Tags
health, gis, facilities
health, facilities, geocoded, csv, public-health
Links
Website
Website Docs
Summary
Geo-located health facility data published Nov 2024 on the GRID3 Data Hub in SHP/GeoJSON, no auth.
Geocoded inventory of 98,745 public-sector health facilities assembled from national master facility lists across 50 sub-Saharan African countries and islands. Records include names, facility types, admin locations and coordinates, distributed as CSV via figshare and Harvard Dataverse. Published in Nature Scientific Data (2019) under CC BY 4.0.

GRID3 Health Facilities v2.0 vs Sub-Saharan Africa Public Health Facilities Database at a glance

GRID3 Health Facilities v2.0 and Sub-Saharan Africa Public Health Facilities Database are both listed under Health in Wycord's Datasets index.

GRID3 Health Facilities v2.0 is based in Nigeria and Sub-Saharan Africa Public Health Facilities Database in Pan-African.

Both currently show the status "Docs live".

On access, both are marked "No approval needed".

Over the last 30 days Wycord's probes measured 100% uptime for GRID3 Health Facilities v2.0 (36 checks) and 100% for Sub-Saharan Africa Public Health Facilities Database (36 checks).

Average response time on live probes was 474 ms for GRID3 Health Facilities v2.0 and 85 ms for Sub-Saharan Africa Public Health Facilities Database.

Uptime and latency come from Wycord's own probes of each resource's website, documentation and repository, run every six hours.

How they differ

  • Pricing: GRID3 Health Facilities v2.0, Free; Sub-Saharan Africa Public Health Facilities Database, Free / open.
  • Country: GRID3 Health Facilities v2.0, Nigeria; Sub-Saharan Africa Public Health Facilities Database, Pan-African.
  • Verification: GRID3 Health Facilities v2.0, Verified; Sub-Saharan Africa Public Health Facilities Database, Unverified.
  • Average latency: GRID3 Health Facilities v2.0, 474 ms; Sub-Saharan Africa Public Health Facilities Database, 85 ms.

Topics

Both are tagged: health, facilities.

Only GRID3 Health Facilities v2.0: gis.

Only Sub-Saharan Africa Public Health Facilities Database: geocoded, csv, public-health.

Common questions

Which has better uptime, GRID3 Health Facilities v2.0 or Sub-Saharan Africa Public Health Facilities Database?
They are level at 100% over the last 30 days.
Do GRID3 Health Facilities v2.0 or Sub-Saharan Africa Public Health Facilities Database need approval before use?
Both are marked "No approval needed".
Is the documentation for GRID3 Health Facilities v2.0 and Sub-Saharan Africa Public Health Facilities Database working?
Both show "Docs live" at the last check.
Where are GRID3 Health Facilities v2.0 and Sub-Saharan Africa Public Health Facilities Database based?
GRID3 Health Facilities v2.0 is based in Nigeria; Sub-Saharan Africa Public Health Facilities Database is based in Pan-African.

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