{"id":8155,"slug":"african-chart-coverage-three-denominators-2026","title":"What Spotify four African daily charts cover, under three denominators, 2025\/2026","source":"Computed from this desk african-chart-coverage-connected-2026 dataset, itself built on World Bank open data","source_url":"https:\/\/api.worldbank.org\/v2\/country\/all\/indicator\/SP.POP.TOTL?format=json","source_type":"computed","method":"Column sums of this desk african-chart-coverage-connected-2026 dataset, split by chart_status. charted is the sum for Nigeria, Egypt, South Africa and Morocco, the four African countries Spotify publishes a daily Top 200 for. no_chart is the sum for the other 21 markets in this desk 25-country tracked panel. charted_share_pct and no_chart_share_pct are each side as a percentage of the 25-market total shown in the same row. The three denominators are not alternative estimates of the same quantity: they are three different questions, how many people, how many people online, and how much national income, asked of the same 25 markets. The panel is 25 of Africa 54 countries, so every no_chart figure here is a floor.","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 13:46:24","n":3,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"denominator","label":"Denominator","type":"text"},{"key":"charted","label":"In the 4 charted markets","type":"number"},{"key":"no_chart","label":"In the 21 markets with no chart","type":"number"},{"key":"total","label":"25-market total","type":"number"},{"key":"charted_share_pct","label":"Charted share, %","type":"number"},{"key":"no_chart_share_pct","label":"No-chart share, %","type":"number"}],"rows":[{"denominator":"People (population, 2025)","charted":459071866,"no_chart":690398552,"total":1149470418,"charted_share_pct":39.94,"no_chart_share_pct":60.06},{"denominator":"Internet users (population x penetration, 2024\/2025)","charted":272030275,"no_chart":250792435,"total":522822710,"charted_share_pct":52.03,"no_chart_share_pct":47.97},{"denominator":"Total GNI, US$ (population x GNI per capita, 2025)","charted":1282434774550,"no_chart":1372559822440,"total":2654994596990,"charted_share_pct":48.3,"no_chart_share_pct":51.7}]}