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All Datasets across Africa

Best Datasets in Africa

71 datasets ranked by a fully public scoring formula — docs status, SDK ecosystem, measured uptime, verification freshness and the verified badge. No editorial picks, no pay-to-rank. See exactly how the score is calculated.

  1. 1

    ACLED conflict data

    Docs live
    0 SDKs100% uptime
    69
    score
  2. 2

    AfriQA

    Docs live
    0 SDKs100% uptime
    69
    score
  3. 3

    AfriSpeech-200

    Docs live
    0 SDKs100% uptime
    69
    score
  4. 4

    AfriSpeech-Dialog

    Docs live
    0 SDKs100% uptime
    69
    score
  5. 5

    BuyLetLive Price Index 2024

    Docs live
    0 SDKs100% uptime
    69
    score
  6. 6

    Central Bank of Nigeria Statistics Database

    Docs live
    0 SDKs100% uptime
    69
    score
  7. 7

    Education stats (UNESCO UIS API)

    Docs live
    0 SDKs100% uptime
    69
    score
  8. 8

    FEWS NET Nigeria Staple Food Prices

    Docs live
    0 SDKs100% uptime
    69
    score
  9. 9

    GDP/CPI time-series (World Bank API)

    Docs live
    0 SDKs100% uptimeFeatured
    69
    score
  10. 10

    Ghana Statistical Service Microdata Catalog

    Docs live
    0 SDKs100% uptime
    69
    score
  11. 11

    GRID3 Health Facilities v2.0

    Docs live
    0 SDKs100% uptime
    69
    score
  12. 12

    Hausa Visual Genome (HausaVG)

    Docs live
    0 SDKs100% uptime
    69
    score
  13. 13

    LGA Boundaries (GRID3)

    Docs live
    0 SDKs100% uptimeFeatured
    69
    score
  14. 14

    MasakhaNER 2.0

    Docs live
    0 SDKs100% uptime
    69
    score
  15. 15

    MasakhaNEWS

    Docs live
    0 SDKs100% uptime
    69
    score
  16. 16

    MasakhaPOS

    Docs live
    0 SDKs100% uptime
    69
    score
  17. 17

    NaijaSenti / AfriSenti

    Docs live
    0 SDKs100% uptime
    69
    score
  18. 18

    NaijaVoices

    Docs live
    0 SDKs100% uptime
    69
    score
  19. 19

    NBS Nigeria Consumer Price Index & Inflation

    Docs live
    0 SDKs100% uptime
    69
    score
  20. 20

    NERC quarterly reports

    Docs live
    0 SDKs100% uptime
    69
    score
  21. 21

    Nigeria Real-Time Monthly Food Prices (World Bank)

    Docs live
    0 SDKs100% uptime
    69
    score
  22. 22

    Nigerian Pidgin ASR (nigerian-pidgin-1.0)

    Docs live
    0 SDKs100% uptime
    69
    score
  23. 23

    Nigerian Supreme Court cases

    Docs live
    0 SDKs100% uptime
    69
    score
  24. 24

    OpenCelliD Nigeria

    Docs live
    0 SDKs100% uptime
    69
    score
  25. 25

    Population estimates (GRID3 v3.0)

    Docs live
    0 SDKs100% uptime
    69
    score
  26. 26

    States/LGAs JSON

    Docs live
    0 SDKs100% uptime
    69
    score
  27. 27

    Ward Boundaries (GRID3)

    Docs live
    0 SDKs100% uptime
    69
    score
  28. 28

    WorldPop Nigeria Population Counts 2020

    Docs live
    0 SDKs100% uptime
    69
    score
  29. 29

    Yoruba Speech-Text Parallel Corpus

    Docs live
    0 SDKs100% uptime
    69
    score
  30. 30

    NCC telecom stats

    Docs live
    0 SDKs94% uptime
    68
    score
  31. 31

    Energy time-series (World Bank + EIA)

    Docs live
    0 SDKs92% uptime
    67
    score
  32. 32

    OpenStreetMap Nigeria Extract (Geofabrik)

    Docs live
    0 SDKs89% uptime
    67
    score
  33. 33

    Kenya — Subnational Population Statistics (HDX/UNFPA)

    Docs live
    0 SDKs86% uptime
    66
    score
  34. 34

    Kenya Subnational Administrative Boundaries (OCHA COD)

    Docs live
    0 SDKs86% uptime
    66
    score
  35. 35

    Health Facility Registry (HUMDATA)

    Docs live
    0 SDKs83% uptime
    65
    score
  36. 36

    GRID3 Nigeria Settlement Extents v4.0

    Docs live
    0 SDKs100% uptime
    56
    score
  37. 37

    Africa Wfp Food Prices For Central African Republic

    Docs live
    0 SDKs100% uptime
    49
    score
  38. 38

    Africa World Bank Climate Change Indicators For Cameroon

    Docs live
    0 SDKs100% uptime
    49
    score
  39. 39

    AfriHate Hate Speech Datasets

    Docs live
    0 SDKs100% uptime
    49
    score
  40. 40

    AfriMMLU (IrokoBench)

    Docs live
    0 SDKs100% uptime
    49
    score
  41. 41

    Afrobarometer Survey Data

    Docs live
    0 SDKs100% uptime
    49
    score
  42. 42

    AfroBench

    Docs live
    0 SDKs97% uptime
    49
    score
  43. 43

    AfTerFibre African Fibre Optic Network Map

    Docs live
    0 SDKs100% uptime
    49
    score
  44. 44

    Amharic Asr Benchmark

    Docs live
    0 SDKs100% uptime
    49
    score
  45. 45

    Amharic Speech

    Docs live
    0 SDKs100% uptime
    49
    score
  46. 46

    DataFirst Open Data Portal (UCT)

    Docs live
    0 SDKs97% uptime
    49
    score
  47. 47

    Digital Earth Africa Analysis-Ready EO Data

    Docs live
    0 SDKs100% uptime
    49
    score
  48. 48

    EgyTech.fyi — Egyptian Tech Salary & Compensation API

    Docs live
    0 SDKs97% uptime
    49
    score
  49. 49

    FAO WaPOR (Water Productivity)

    Docs live
    0 SDKs100% uptime
    49
    score
  50. 50

    Google Open Buildings (Africa)

    Docs live
    0 SDKs100% uptime
    49
    score
  51. 51

    HarvestStat Africa

    Docs live
    0 SDKs97% uptime
    49
    score
  52. 52

    Kencorpus Kenyan Language Corpus

    Docs live
    0 SDKs100% uptime
    49
    score
  53. 53

    Leyu Amharic Addis Ababa Dialect

    Docs live
    0 SDKs100% uptime
    49
    score
  54. 54

    Leyu Amharic Gojjam Dialect

    Docs live
    0 SDKs100% uptime
    49
    score
  55. 55

    Leyu Amharic Gonder Dialect

    Docs live
    0 SDKs100% uptime
    49
    score
  56. 56

    Leyu Amharic Wello Dialect

    Docs live
    0 SDKs100% uptime
    49
    score
  57. 57

    MAFAND-MT (masakhane/mafand)

    Docs live
    0 SDKs100% uptime
    49
    score
  58. 58

    nigeria-state-lga-data

    Docs live
    0 SDKs97% uptime
    49
    score
  59. 59

    SAHARA Benchmark

    Docs live
    0 SDKs100% uptime
    49
    score
  60. 60

    Statistics South Africa Economic Time Series

    Docs live
    0 SDKs100% uptime
    49
    score
  61. 61

    Sub-Saharan Africa Public Health Facilities Database

    Docs live
    0 SDKs100% uptime
    49
    score
  62. 62

    Swivuriso — ZA African Next Voices

    Docs live
    0 SDKs100% uptime
    49
    score
  63. 63

    WURA

    Docs live
    0 SDKs100% uptime
    49
    score
  64. 64

    iSDAsoil Africa Soil Properties (30m)

    Docs live
    0 SDKs94% uptime
    48
    score
  65. 65

    Africa Electricity Transmission & Distribution Grid Map

    Docs live
    0 SDKs
    46
    score
  66. 66

    Ghana Subnational Administrative Boundaries (OCHA COD)

    Docs live
    0 SDKs0% uptime
    44
    score
  67. 67

    OSM school locations (HDX)

    Docs live
    0 SDKs0% uptime
    44
    score
  68. 68

    TAHMO Weather Station Network

    Docs live
    0 SDKs72% uptime
    43
    score
  69. 69

    Africapolis Urban Agglomerations (OECD/SWAC)

    Docs live
    0 SDKs100% uptime
    37
    score
  70. 70

    KeNADA — Kenya National Data Archive (KNBS)

    Docs gated
    0 SDKs0% uptime
    0
    score
  71. 71

    Nigeria General Household Survey (GHS-Panel) Wave 5

    Docs broken
    0 SDKs100% uptime
    0
    score

Scores are recomputed from live registry data on every load and range 0–100. A resource whose documentation is broken or shut down scores zero regardless of everything else — it is disqualified from "best". Read the full formula on the methodology page.