{"id":1891,"slug":"african-population-chart-coverage-summary","title":"How much of the tracked African population Spotify’s chart panel covers, 2025\/2026-08-17","source":"World Bank open data (SP.POP.TOTL) cross-referenced against spotify-african-share-by-market","source_url":"https:\/\/api.worldbank.org\/v2\/country\/all\/indicator\/SP.POP.TOTL?format=json","source_type":"computed","method":"Sums derived from african-population-chart-coverage. Charted population is the 2025 World Bank population total for the four African countries Spotify publishes a daily Top 200 chart for: Nigeria, South Africa, Egypt, Morocco. No-chart population is the sum for the other 21 countries in this desk's 25-country tracked panel. This 25-country panel is not all of Africa: it is the set this desk maintains World Bank context data for, chosen for population size and market relevance, not a complete list of the continent's 54 countries. The true uncovered share across all of Africa is at least as large as reported here.","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":"2026-08-20 07:59:07","n":8,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"measure","label":"Measure","type":"text"},{"key":"value","label":"Value","type":"number"}],"rows":[{"measure":"Countries in this tracked panel","value":25},{"measure":"Countries with a published Spotify daily chart","value":4},{"measure":"Countries with no published chart","value":21},{"measure":"Combined population of the tracked panel","value":1149470418},{"measure":"Population in charted countries","value":459071866},{"measure":"Population in no-chart countries","value":690398552},{"measure":"Share of tracked population in a charted country, per cent","value":39.94},{"measure":"Share of tracked population with no published chart, per cent","value":60.06}]}