Sub-Saharan Africa Public Health Facilities Database

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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.

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Category: Datasets
Pricing: Free / open
Country: 🌍 Pan-African
Last verified: 25 Aug 2026

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  "docs_status": "LIVE",
  "licensing_required": "NONE",
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  "last_verified": "2026-08-25",
  "website": "https://springernature.figshare.com/collections/A_spatial_database_of_health_facilities_managed_by_the_public_health_sector_in_sub_Saharan_Africa/4399445",
  "documentation_url": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-019-0142-2"
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