Statistics: people

The data we used to make these figures were gathered by querying NASA’s Astrophysics Data System (ADS) [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/] for peer-reviewed astronomy articles in which any of the authors had affiliations that linked to one of the 54 countries in Africa. The search was further restricted by including only publications between 2013 and 2018.

If an article included authors from more than one African country, the publication was counted for each of those countries. 

The datasets, along with the Jupyter notebooks we used to generate the data, can be found in this GitHub repository 

Published astronomers per country, 2013-2018

Published astronomers per million inhabitants, 2013-2018

Published astronomers per country, 2013-2018

Published astronomers per million inhabitants, 2013-2018