{"id":8156,"slug":"african-chart-coverage-connected-leave-one-out-2026","title":"Does chart coverage still look wider in internet users than in people? Recomputed eight ways, 2025\/2026","source":"Computed from this desk african-chart-coverage-connected-2026 dataset","source_url":"https:\/\/api.worldbank.org\/v2\/country\/all\/indicator\/SP.POP.TOTL?format=json","source_type":"computed","method":"The charted share of internet users and the charted share of population were both recomputed from scratch after dropping the named markets from the 25-market panel entirely, from numerator and denominator alike. Scenarios were chosen to attack the finding from both directions: dropping each of the four charted markets one at a time, dropping the single largest uncharted market by internet users, dropping the three largest uncharted markets by internet users, and dropping the three largest charted markets so that Morocco is the only charted market left. gap_pp is connected_share_pct minus population_share_pct in percentage points, so a positive value means chart coverage looks wider when measured in people who are online than when measured in people. The finding fails if any scenario returns a negative gap_pp.","unit":"","license":"Afrobeats Wire's compilation and analysis are licensed CC BY 4.0. Rights in the underlying source data remain with the source named above.","confidence":"high","retrieved":"2026-10-25 13:46:26","n":8,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"scenario","label":"Scenario","type":"text"},{"key":"markets","label":"Markets in the panel","type":"number"},{"key":"connected_share_pct","label":"Charted share of internet users, %","type":"number"},{"key":"population_share_pct","label":"Charted share of population, %","type":"number"},{"key":"gap_pp","label":"Gap, percentage points","type":"number"}],"rows":[{"scenario":"All 25 tracked markets, as published","markets":25,"connected_share_pct":52.03,"population_share_pct":39.94,"gap_pp":12.09},{"scenario":"Drop Nigeria, the largest charted market by internet users","markets":24,"connected_share_pct":40.98,"population_share_pct":24.29,"gap_pp":16.69},{"scenario":"Drop Egypt","markets":24,"connected_share_pct":42.28,"population_share_pct":33.04,"gap_pp":9.23},{"scenario":"Drop South Africa","markets":24,"connected_share_pct":46.88,"population_share_pct":36.35,"gap_pp":10.52},{"scenario":"Drop Morocco","markets":24,"connected_share_pct":48.58,"population_share_pct":37.86,"gap_pp":10.72},{"scenario":"Drop Algeria, the largest uncharted market by internet users","markets":24,"connected_share_pct":55.96,"population_share_pct":41.66,"gap_pp":14.31},{"scenario":"Drop the three largest uncharted markets by internet users","markets":22,"connected_share_pct":63.11,"population_share_pct":49.28,"gap_pp":13.82},{"scenario":"Drop the three largest charted markets, leaving Morocco alone charted","markets":22,"connected_share_pct":12.26,"population_share_pct":5.27,"gap_pp":6.99}]}