Datasets

Nationally representative public-attitude surveys on democracy, governance, the economy and society across roughly 39 African countries and nine survey rounds. Country-level and merged multi-country datasets are provided with codebooks in SPSS, Stata and CSV. Data is free to use; the most recent Round 9 covers 2021 to 2023.

HuggingFace datasets: snapwre/amharic-asr-benchmark (245 dl). amharic, ethiopia, benchmark, evaluation, low-resource

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

HuggingFace datasets: snapwre/amharic-speech (750 dl). speech, ethiopia, low-resource, crowdsourced

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

Research data service cataloguing African household, labour and census microdata, centred on South Africa but including other African countries, with full survey documentation and questionnaires. Microdata downloads (Stata, SPSS, CSV) require a free account and agreement to terms, while the catalog itself is openly browsable. Maintained by the University of Cape Town.

Continental analysis-ready satellite data platform providing cropland extent, Water Observations from Space, coastline change, fractional cover and GeoMAD products for all of Africa. Data is served as Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF via a STAC API (explorer.digitalearth.africa/stac), OGC Web Services (ows.digitalearth.africa), an AWS S3 open bucket and a JupyterHub Sandbox. Products are derived from Landsat and Sentinel and are continuously updated.

[ingest-scout] Live community-driven API (api.egytech.fyi, powered by Cloudflare Workers) exposing compensation and job-market data for Egypt's tech sector: job titles, seniority levels, salary distributions, and technology-stack splits from ~2,600 Egyptian tech professionals. Queried as recently as July 2026. 153 GitHub stars, 51+ commits, React/TypeScript frontend at egytech.fyi. Fetched and confirmed the repo and live dashboard are active. Practical AI agent resource for Egypt hiring/workforce data.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

Near-real-time remote-sensing database of evapotranspiration, biomass production and water productivity covering Africa and the Near East. Data is provided from continental to field scale (300m, 100m and 30m) as GeoTIFF and through an API, refreshed on a dekadal (10-day) cadence. Free and open access from FAO.

Machine-learning building footprint dataset first released for Africa and now covering 1.8 billion detections, each with a polygon, confidence score and Plus Code. Africa is served both as the original continent-wide product and as per-country GeoParquet/GeoJSON extracts on HDX. Data downloads as CSV by S2 cell, via gsutil, Google Earth Engine or the web explorer; latest v3 is May 2023.

[ingest-scout] Open-access harmonized subnational crop statistics for 33 Sub-Saharan African countries from 1980–2022, containing 574,204 records across 94 crop types at Admin-1 and Admin-2 levels (area, production, yield). Published in Scientific Data 2025 (doi:10.1038/s41597-025-05001-z), GitHub repo confirmed live at v1.2. Critical food-security and agriculture dataset not yet in the registry.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

Text and speech corpus for three Kenyan languages, Swahili, Dholuo and Luhya, containing 4,442 texts (5.6 million words) and 1,152 speech files (177 hours). It also ships derived NLP sets: POS-tagged Dholuo/Luhya, 7,537 Swahili question-answer pairs and 13,400 translated sentences. Downloadable from Harvard Dataverse; released 2022.

HuggingFace datasets: leyu-amharic/leyu-amharic-addis-ababa-dialect (321 dl). amharic, africa, ethiopia, dialect, speech, asr, tts

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

HuggingFace datasets: hadamard-2/leyu-amharic-gojjam-dialect (202 dl). amharic, africa, ethiopia, dialect, speech, asr, tts

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

HuggingFace datasets: hadamard-2/leyu-amharic-gonder-dialect (207 dl). amharic, africa, ethiopia, dialect, speech, asr, tts

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

HuggingFace datasets: leyu-amharic/leyu-amharic-wello-dialect (362 dl). amharic, africa, ethiopia, dialect, speech, asr, tts

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

Largest news-domain machine translation benchmark for African languages, covering 21 languages with English or French as source. It contains 142,909 parallel sentences in parquet with train, dev and test splits, hosted on HuggingFace. Licensed CC BY-NC 4.0.

[ingest-scout] The most comprehensive African NLP evaluation benchmark to date — 517 African languages and varieties, 16 tasks (classification, NER, QA, reasoning, generation), published at ACL 2025. Created by UBC-NLP to systematically assess LLM performance on African languages and expose policy-induced data inequities. HuggingFace dataset card was fetched and confirmed active. Distinct from all existing registry datasets (MasakhaNER, AfriSenti, etc.) in its continent-wide scale and multi-task scope.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

Official downloadable economic time-series from South Africa's national statistics office, including CPI, GDP, PPI, employment and trade indicators. Series are provided as Excel and ASCII flat files and refreshed on monthly and quarterly release schedules. Free public access with no login.

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.

[ingest-scout] 3,000+ hours of ASR-ready speech across 7 South African languages: isiZulu, isiXhosa, Sesotho, Setswana, Xitsonga, isiNdebele, and Tshivenda (the latter two are critically under-resourced). Fetched the HuggingFace page; dataset is fully released (100% complete for all languages), 831 GB, 2,630 monthly downloads, published December 2025 by the DSFSI group at University of Pretoria. South Africa has almost no speech dataset representation in the registry despite having 11 official languages; this directly addresses that gap.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

Network of automatic weather stations across sub-Saharan Africa recording rainfall, temperature, humidity, wind and radiation at sub-daily intervals. Observations are accessed through an API and web portal under a data-sharing agreement, free for education and research. The station data itself is real but sits behind account credentials rather than an open download.

[ingest-scout] 49 GB document-level pretraining corpus spanning 16 African languages (Yoruba, Amharic, Egyptian Arabic, Hausa, and others) plus English/French/Arabic/Portuguese, built by auditing mC4 and crawling verified news sources; fetched HuggingFace page and confirmed 239 monthly downloads, Apache 2.0 license, collection updated June 2025, and use as the training corpus for AfriTeVa V2. High-quality complement to Wycord's existing NLP datasets.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

First continent-scale predictive soil property maps for Africa at 30m resolution, covering organic carbon, pH, texture class, sand, clay, stone content and nutrients at 0-20cm and 20-50cm depths. Each property is published as Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF (mean and model error layers) on Zenodo under CC BY 4.0. Released 2021 by iSDA with ISRIC.

npm: nigeria-state-lga-data (409 dl/wk). Dataset of Nigerian states, LGAs, and towns for developers

Imported from a community submission, needs review.