Fertilizer prices in Sub-Saharan Africa

We compiled fertilizer price data for eighteen countries in West and East Africa from two data sources: (1) Africa Fertilizer (Africa Fertilizer, 2018) and (2) the Living Standards Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (henceforth LSMS-ISA) (World Bank, 2018). Africa Fertilizer reports prices over time for major towns in different countries. Prices are for 25 kg or 50 kg bags and expressed in the national currency. We compiled 7823 observations for 878 locations in seventeen countries: Benin, Burundi, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Malawi, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Togo, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia from 2010-2018. We used the town name to assign geographic coordinates to each location. Africa Fertilizer reported non-subsidized and subsidized prices for several countries. LSMS-ISA is a nationally representative multi-topic household survey implemented in eight countries in SSA: Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda (World Bank, 2018).