Food Prices in Africa

Dennis van den Berg
November 22 2015

From Open Data to Visualization

  country      location           indicator measure      Unit       Date
1 Algeria All Locations Loaf of white bread     USD USD/450 g 2014-08-25
2 Algeria All Locations Loaf of white bread     USD USD/450 g 2014-08-25
      Value
1 0.1141835
2 0.1141835

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Data: African Development Bank

To Interactive Web Application

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Check web-app at: https://dljvandenberg.shinyapps.io/africafoodprices

Functionalities

Historical prices of commodities in African countries

  • 55 commodities (mostly food): beef with bones, bream fish, cooking salt, ..
  • 25 countries: Algeria, Angola, Benin, ..
  • Multiple measuring locations per country
  • Historical trendlines per location, including confidence intervals
  • Currency: USD

It's open and free, so use it!

Questions, comments or contributions?

Acknowledgements