The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), the African Union Commission (AUC) and the African Development Bank resolved in 2007, among others, to set up a joint data collection mechanism for socioeconomic data from African countries; the development of a common harmonized database; and the production of a joint African Statistical Yearbook (ASYB).
The African Charter on Statistics aims at serving as a policy framework for statistics development in Africa, especially the production, management and dissemination of statistical data and information at national, regional and continental levels.
The Strategy for the Harmonization of Statistics in Africa (SHaSA) is built around the importance of having harmonized and standardized definitions and concepts, adapting international statistical norms to African realities and specificities; and using common methodologies for the production, management and dissemination of statistics by all African countries.
The UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) is the official and trusted source of internationally-comparable data on education, science, culture and communication.
Reliable statistical information – statistics and indicators used in the analysis of international trade, investment, and development...
The World bank open data platform provides free and open access to global development data.
The Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) database consists of organizations working in Africa...
UNAIDS leads the world’s most extensive data collection on HIV epidemiology, programme coverage and finance and publishes the most authoritative and up-to-date information on the HIV epidemic.