Data Sources and Citations
data_sources.Rmd🇺🇳 | UN
UNWPP1
Dataset: Historical population estimates
Dataset name:
WPP2022_Population1JanuaryBySingleAgeSex_Medium_1950-2021
Accessed via: Webpage
Last accessed: 30/08/2023 Data range:
1950-2021
Dataset: Future population projections
Dataset name:
WPP2022_Population1JanuaryBySingleAgeSex_Medium_2022-2100
Accessed via: Webpage
Last accessed: 30/08/2023 Data range:
2022-2100
UNWUP2
Dataset: Urban population estimates
Dataset name: WUP2018-F02-Proportion_Urban
Accessed via: Webpage
Last accessed: 30/08/2023
👥 | WorldPop
Population spatial distribution3
Dataset: Individual countries 2015-2030 ( 1km
resolution ) R2025A v1
Dataset name: G2_CN_POP_R25A_1km
Accessed via: API
Last accessed: 06/01/2026 Data range:
2015-2030 (2015-2026 used)
🌍 | MAP
Prevalence estimates4
Dataset: Plasmodium falciparum prevalence in 2 to 10
year olds
Dataset name:
Malaria_202508_Global_Pf_Parasite_Rate
Accessed via: R-package
Last accessed: 06/01/2026 Data range:
2000-2024
Dataset: Plasmodium vivax prevalence in 1 to 99 year
olds
Dataset name:
Malaria__202508_Global_Pv_Parasite_Rate
Accessed via: R-package
Last accessed: 06/01/2026 Data range:
2000-2024
Intervention coverage estimates4
Dataset: ITN use in Africa
Dataset name:
Interventions__202508_Africa_Insecticide_Treated_Net_Use
Accessed via: R-package
Last accessed: 06/01/2026 Data range:
2000-2024
Dataset: IRS coverage in Africa
Dataset name:
Interventions__202508_Africa_IRS_Coverage
Accessed via: R-package
Last accessed: 06/01/2026 Data range:
2000-2024
Dataset: Effective treatment coverage
Dataset name:
Interventions__202508_Global_Antimalarial_Effective_Treatment
Accessed via: R-package
Last accessed: 06/01/2026 Data range:
2000-2024
Access and travel time4
Dataset: Travel time to cities Dataset
name: 201501_Global_Travel_Time_to_Cities_2015
Accessed via: R-package
Last accessed: 30/11/2023 Data range:
2015
Dataset: Motorised travel time to healthcare
Dataset name:
202001_Global_Motorized_Travel_Time_to_Healthcare_2019
Accessed via: R-package
Last accessed: 30/11/2023 Data range:
2019
Dataset: Walking travel time to healthcare
Dataset name:
202001_Global_Walking_Only_Travel_Time_To_Healthcare_2019
Accessed via: R-package
Last accessed: 30/11/2023 Data range:
2019
Blood disorders4
Dataset: HbC Allele frequency Dataset
name: 201201_Africa_HbC_Allele_Frequency_2010
Accessed via: R-package
Last accessed: 30/11/2023 Data range:
2010
Dataset: Duffy negativity phenotype frequency
Dataset name:
201201_Global_Duffy_Negativity_Phenotype_Frequency_2010
Accessed via: R-package
Last accessed: 30/11/2023 Data range:
2010
Dataset: G6PD Allele frequency Dataset
name: 201201_Global_G6PDd_Allele_Frequency_2010
Accessed via: R-package
Last accessed: 30/11/2023 Data range:
2010
Dataset: HbS Allele frequency Dataset
name:
201201_Global_Sickle_Haemoglobin_HbS_Allele_Frequency_2010
Accessed via: R-package
Last accessed: 30/11/2023 Data range:
2010
☔️ | CHIRPS
Rainfall estimates5
Dataset: CHIRPS: rainfall estimates from rain gauge
and satellite observations Dataset name: Monthly global
raster dataset
Accessed via: Website
Last accessed: 06/01/2026 Data range:
2000:2025
⚕️ | WHO
Burden6
Dataset: Cases and deaths Dataset
name: Annex 4h
Accessed via: Website
Last accessed: 06/01/2026 Data range:
2022-2024
Intervention commodities
Dataset: Commodities distribution and coverage
Dataset name: Annex 4g
Accessed via: Website
Last accessed: 06/01/2026 Data range:
2022-2024
MVIP7
Dataset: MVIP vaccine trial Dataset
name:
WHO_Malaria_Vaccine_Implementation_Program_Briefing_2021
Accessed via: Online report
Last accessed: 01/10/2022
Vaccine dashboard8
Dataset: Malaria vaccine introduction status
Dataset name: Malaria vaccine introduction status
Accessed via: Online dashboard
Last accessed: 06/01/2026
MagicAPP9
Dataset: WHO malaria guidelines
Dataset name: MAGICapp Accessed via:
Online resource
Last accessed: 06/01/2026
🦟 | Vectors
Vector relative abundance10
Dataset: Relative abundance of malaria vectors
Dataset name: Modelling the relative abundance of the
primary African vectors of malaria before and after the implementation
of indoor, insecticide-based vector control
Accessed via: Website/Paper Last
accessed: 06/01/2026
Vector occurrence11
Dataset: Dominant malaria vectors
Dataset name: A global map of dominant malaria vectors
Accessed via: Website/Paper Last
accessed: 06/01/2026
Vector bionomics
Dataset: Vector bionomics Dataset
name: A review of malaria vector bionomics Accessed
via: Personal correspondence with Arran Hamlet
Last accessed: 30/08/2023
Pyrethroid resistance
Dataset: Pyrethroid resistance Dataset
name: Country level historical and future pyrethroid resistance
projections
Accessed via: Personal correspondence with Thom
Churcher
Last accessed: 30/08/2023
Vector control parameters12 13
Dataset: Vector control efficacy parameters
Dataset name: ITN and IRS efficacy parameters for
multiple products in the presence of resistance
Accessed via: Papers
Last accessed: 30/08/2023
Net type14
Dataset: Bed net product introduction dates
Dataset name:
itn-dashboards/mass-campaign-tracker/?_sfm_mc_date_of_import=20221201
Accessed via: Webpage
Last accessed: 04/01/2024
Net retention15
Dataset: Bed net retention half-life Dataset
name: Bed net retention half-life Accessed
via: Paper
Last accessed: 05/03/2024
📍 | GADM
Spatial boundaries16
Dataset: Country and sub-national spatial
boundaries
Dataset name: GADM version 4.1.0
Accessed via: Website
Last accessed: 22/11/2023
📋 | DHS
Proportion ACT17
Dataset: ACT use
Dataset name: Children who took any ACT (ID:
ML_AMLD_C_ACT)
Accessed via: Website/StatCompiler
Last accessed: 19/07/2022
Proportion public17
Dataset: Public sector treatment coverage
Dataset name: Children with fever for whom advice or
treatment was sought, the source was a public sector facility (ID:
ML_FEVA_C_PUB)
Accessed via: Website/StatCompiler
Last accessed: 19/07/2022
🧑🧒🧒 | UNICEF
Vaccine deliveries20
Dataset: Malaria vaccine deliveries
Dataset name: Malaria vaccine deliveries
Accessed via: Website/dashboard
Last accessed: 06/01/2026