{"id":1912,"slug":"sa-chart-wealth-gap","title":"Income, connectivity and African chart share across Spotify’s four African markets, 17 August 2026","source":"World Bank open data (GNI per capita Atlas method, individuals using the internet) merged with this desk's spotify-african-share-by-market dataset; Nigeria's GNI per capita and South Africa's internet-penetration figure were queried directly from the World Bank API because both are absent from this desk's own africa-gni-per-capita and africa-internet-penetration collections","source_url":"https:\/\/api.worldbank.org\/v2\/country\/all\/indicator\/NY.GNP.PCAP.CD?format=json","source_type":"computed","method":"For the four African countries Spotify publishes a daily Top 200 chart for (Nigeria, Egypt, Morocco, South Africa), population and GNI-per-capita (Atlas method, current US$) come from this desk's africa-population and africa-gni-per-capita datasets where present. Nigeria carries no value in africa-gni-per-capita, so its 2025 figure ($1,360) was queried directly from https:\/\/api.worldbank.org\/v2\/country\/NGA\/indicator\/NY.GNP.PCAP.CD?format=json. South Africa carries no value in africa-internet-penetration, so its 2024 figure (78.36%) was queried directly from https:\/\/api.worldbank.org\/v2\/country\/ZAF\/indicator\/IT.NET.USER.ZS?format=json. All other GNI-per-capita and internet-penetration figures are this desk's existing collected values, unedited. total_gni_usd is population multiplied by gni_per_capita_usd. connected_population is population multiplied by internet_pct. chart_streams, african_streams and african_share_pct are this desk's spotify-african-share-by-market dataset for the 2026-08-17 snapshot, unedited.","unit":"usd","license":"Afrobeats Wire's compilation and analysis are licensed CC BY 4.0. Rights in the underlying source data remain with the source named above.","confidence":"medium","retrieved":"2026-08-20 13:48:26","n":4,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"country","label":"Country","type":"text"},{"key":"iso","label":"ISO","type":"text"},{"key":"population","label":"Population, 2025","type":"number"},{"key":"gni_per_capita_usd","label":"GNI per capita, Atlas method, current US$","type":"number"},{"key":"total_gni_usd","label":"Total GNI, current US$","type":"number"},{"key":"internet_pct","label":"Individuals using the internet, %","type":"number"},{"key":"connected_population","label":"Estimated internet users","type":"number"},{"key":"chart_streams","label":"Total daily chart streams, home market","type":"number"},{"key":"african_streams","label":"Chart streams to African artists, home market","type":"number"},{"key":"african_share_pct","label":"African share of home chart, %","type":"number"}],"rows":[{"country":"Nigeria","iso":"NG","population":237527782,"gni_per_capita_usd":1360,"total_gni_usd":323037783520,"internet_pct":41.21,"connected_population":97885199,"chart_streams":14452007,"african_streams":11708777,"african_share_pct":81.02},{"country":"Egypt","iso":"EG","population":118365995,"gni_per_capita_usd":3260,"total_gni_usd":385873143700,"internet_pct":74.65,"connected_population":88360215,"chart_streams":6349658,"african_streams":3121442,"african_share_pct":49.16},{"country":"Morocco","iso":"MA","population":38430770,"gni_per_capita_usd":4360,"total_gni_usd":167558157200,"internet_pct":91.2,"connected_population":35048862,"chart_streams":2139649,"african_streams":863118,"african_share_pct":40.34},{"country":"South Africa","iso":"ZA","population":64747319,"gni_per_capita_usd":6270,"total_gni_usd":405965690130,"internet_pct":78.36,"connected_population":50735999,"chart_streams":6542146,"african_streams":734349,"african_share_pct":11.22}]}