Wealth Map of Africa
Tap anywhere on the map to view the time-series of IWI for that location.
IWI Distribution
Distribution of International Wealth Index values for the selected time period.
Note: Areas without human settlements are excluded.Time Series at Tapped Location
Tap on the map to see the IWI time-series (1990–2019) for that location.
How It Works
These wealth-index predictions are AI-generated by a sequence-aware neural network trained on 30 years of Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) ground-truth data.
- 🔍 57,100+ geo-referenced survey points from DHS
- ⚙️ Multi-spectral satellite bands & raster-to-vector feature extraction
- 🎯 Calibrated & validated with held-out DHS clusters (1990–2019)
Poverty Improvement by State
This table shows the estimated improvement in mean IWI between 1990–1992 and 2017–2019 for each province in Africa.
Average Wealth Index Over Time
Mean IWI across Africa over the ten time periods, showing how wealth has changed over time.