Drumming Africa Towards
Transformational Development
for All
Africa’s future begins with the dignity, health, and wellbeing of its people.
Every African deserves the opportunity to live free from preventable disease, hunger and inequality, with access to quality healthcare, nutrition, clean water and the chance to thrive. A healthy Africa is not only a moral imperative, but the foundation for prosperity, resilience, innovation and a future shaped by Africans themselves. This is the reason African citizens, governments, corporates and partners invest heavily into Africa’s health system. This is the reason the African Union keenly advances health for all.
Understanding Africa's Health Indicators
What do the dashboard figures actually represent? Select any of the four core indicator categories to reveal definitions, benchmarks, target thresholds, and continent-wide averages from WHO, IMF, and World Bank data.
Government Health Expenditure per Capita (USD)
Indicator Definition
Domestic general government health expenditure per capita (current USD). Measures government spending per person on health services; a benchmark of > $86 is recommended for basic service packages.
Quick Member State Explorer
Filter by geographic region or search instantly by name to view score sheets, budget utilization, and fiscal indicators across the 54 AU countries, including highlighted small island nations.
Profile Algeria
Northern Africa
Profile Angola
Southern Africa
Profile Benin
Western Africa
Profile Botswana
Southern Africa
Profile Burkina Faso
Western Africa
Profile Burundi
Central Africa
Profile Cabo Verde
Western Africa
Profile Cameroon
Central AfricaIf you want to know more about your country, find it on the map or select it from the list. Small island nations (Seychelles, Cabo Verde, Mauritius, Comoros, São Tomé & Príncipe) are fully interactive in the map overlay.
Analyze Map ViewThe Health Financing Lifecycle Infographic
How does health investment translate to human survival and development? Hover over each lifecycle block to explore how finances are consolidated, allocated, converted into output infrastructure, and turned into healthy, dignified lives.
1. Inputs
Financing Sources
Tax revenue, natural resources, external assistance grants, and out-of-pocket patient expenditures.
2. Allocation
Pooling & Budgeting
Consolidating cash reserves in National health insurance schemes and ministerial budgetary allocations.
3. Outputs
Service Capacity
Converting budget allocations into workforce registers, functional hospital beds, and pharmaceutical stocks.
4. Outcomes
Survival & Dignity
Realizing low infant death indexes, extended lifespans, and universal care access free from fiscal ruin.
Hover over any flow block above to analyze dynamic metrics & insights
African-led Norms, Policies & Sovereignty Agreements
Discover the African-led norms, policies and strategies underpinning this aspiration. Explore how Africans are driving Agenda 2063 forward, through the Abuja Declaration, the ALM Declaration and Africa’s health sovereignty agenda.
Abuja 15% Pledge
The landmark 2001 commitment obligating all AU states to allocate at least 15% of annual budgets exclusively to healthcare development.
ALM Initiative
The African Leadership Meeting (ALM) declaration driving domestic financing reform through rigorous visual index scorecards and accountability benchmarks.
Agenda 2063
The African Union's grand 50-year blueprint aimed at structural modernization, universal health security, and medical manufacturing sovereignty.
“Little by little grows the banana tree.”
Every achievement is shaped by countless decisions, reforms, partnerships and people working over time to create change. Explore our Exemplars spotlights.
Performance-Based Financing and a Public-Private Partnership Pilot for Universal Health Coverage in Cameroon
This exemplar examines Cameroon’s attempt to move toward universal health coverage through a public-private partnership pilot built on a longer performance-based financing experience. It considers both the promise of that approach and the constraints created by the absence of a full legal and fiscal framework.
Key Policy Deep Dives
If you want to discover the ingenuity and innovation shaping Africa’s health future, explore our Deep Dive Database. Here you will find rigorous, peer-reviewed knowledge on African health financing innovations, showcasing the ideas, policies and solutions emerging across the continent to build stronger, more resilient health systems.
Revitalising Primary Healthcare Through Local Management Reforms in Kano State, Nigeria
An evaluation of Kano State primary healthcare reforms aiming to enable facilities to meet national Minimum Service Package (MSP) standards through local resource optimisation, bottom-up budgeting, and standardised recruitment of temporary staff.
Community-Based Health Insurance in Ethiopia is Changing Health Seeking Behaviour Among the Insured
An analysis of the nationwide scale-up of community-based health insurance (CBHI) in Ethiopia, demonstrating how removing financial barriers has increased service utilisation and significantly reduced catastrophic health expenditures.
State Partnerships with Faith-Based Organisations to Offer Healthcare in Sub-Saharan Africa
Exploring how formal agreements and resource-sharing between governments and Faith-Based Organisations (FBOs) bridge critical gaps in access, affordability, and clinical outcomes for universal health coverage in sub-Saharan Africa.