Africapolis Urban Agglomerations (OECD/SWAC)

Standardised geospatial database of urban agglomerations across all 54 African countries, built from censuses, electoral registers and satellite imagery. Each urban area is a polygon with population and built-up-area attributes, available in 2015 and 2020 versions. Data is downloadable as geospatial vector files from africapolis.org under CC BY 4.0.

Category

Datasets

Pricing

Free / open

Country

🌍 Pan-African

Last verified

5 Jul 2026

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  "country": "Pan-African",
  "docs_status": "LIVE",
  "licensing_required": "NONE",
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  "last_verified": "2026-07-05",
  "website": "https://africapolis.org/en/data",
  "documentation_url": "https://www.oecd.org/swac/topics/africapolis/"
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