Panel Dataset on Energy Transition, Digitalisation, Governance and Greenhouse Gas Emission Nexus in Sub-Saharan Africa (2000-2023)

This dataset contains a country-year panel for Sub-Saharan Africa covering 2000-2023, assembled for research on the nexus between energy transition, digitalisation, governance, and greenhouse gas emissions. It includes indicators of energy intensity, electricity access, renewable energy use, digital connectivity, economic development, urbanisation, and GHG emissions in formats suitable for panel-data analysis, replication, and visualisation. The main analytical file, SSA_energy_digital_emissions_panel_data_2000_2023.csv, can be used to run the empirical analysis. The companion documentation file, SSA_energy_digital_governance_emissions_panel_codebook.xlsx, provides the variable codebook, dataset structure, and relevant processing notes, including missingness and related data-handling information.

A key feature of the dataset is its alignment with the study’s empirical design. The panel file supports the baseline, moderation, heterogeneity, and forward-looking analyses, while the z-score file, SSA_energy_digital_emissions_zscore_data_mean _2000_2023.csv, is used to generate the country heat map of variable patterns. The separate Africa-wide file, GHG Mean by Country in Africa 2020_2023.csv, is used for the African GHG choropleth map. Together, these files support both the main econometric analysis and the study’s descriptive visualisations.

Files included:
SSA_energy_digital_emissions_panel_data_2000_2023.csv
SSA_energy_digital_governance_emissions_panel_codebook.xlsx
SSA_energy_digital_emissions_zscore_data_mean _2000_2023.csv
GHG Mean by Country in Africa 2020_2023.csv

Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators (WDI).