{
  "slug": "africa-health",
  "name": "Sub-Saharan Africa Healthtech",
  "updated": "2026-11-02",
  "page": "https://godofstartups.com/atlas/markets/africa-health",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "facts": [
    {
      "metric": "Total cost of AMO Tadamon to the state budget, Morocco",
      "value": "9,4",
      "unit": "MAD billion",
      "geo": "MA",
      "period": "2024",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://www.courdescomptes.ma/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Rapport-annuel-Cour-des-comptes_2024_2025.pdf"
    },
    {
      "metric": "AMO Achamil benefit spending, Morocco",
      "value": "587,5",
      "unit": "MAD million",
      "geo": "MA",
      "period": "2024",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://www.courdescomptes.ma/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Rapport-annuel-Cour-des-comptes_2024_2025.pdf"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Private sector share of total billed AMO healthcare spending, Morocco",
      "value": "91",
      "unit": "percent",
      "geo": "MA",
      "period": "2024",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://www.courdescomptes.ma/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Rapport-annuel-Cour-des-comptes_2024_2025.pdf"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Out-of-pocket health expenditure per capita, PPP",
      "value": "91.14",
      "unit": "current international USD",
      "geo": "SN",
      "period": "2023",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://api.worldbank.org/v2/country/KE;NG;ZA;GH;EG;RW;ET;TZ;UG;SN;CI/indicator/SH.XPD.OOPC.PP.CD?format=json&per_page=5000&mrv=5"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Share of Ghanaians who are active NHIS members",
      "value": "56.3",
      "unit": "percent",
      "geo": "GH",
      "period": "2025",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://nhis.gov.gh/News/nhis-registers-over-18-million-active-members--5982"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Persons registered in AMO Achamil (people able to pay, without professional activity), Morocco",
      "value": "341",
      "unit": "thousand persons",
      "geo": "MA",
      "period": "2024",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://www.courdescomptes.ma/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Rapport-annuel-Cour-des-comptes_2024_2025.pdf"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Medicines as share of AMO spending in CNSS-managed schemes, Morocco",
      "value": "30,4",
      "unit": "percent",
      "geo": "MA",
      "period": "2024",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://www.courdescomptes.ma/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Rapport-annuel-Cour-des-comptes_2024_2025.pdf"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Member contributions to Mutuelle de Santé, Rwanda",
      "value": "31",
      "unit": "RWF billion",
      "geo": "RW",
      "period": "2024/25",
      "tier": 3,
      "status": "proxy",
      "url": "https://www.newtimes.co.rw/article/33601/news/health/mutuelle-reforms-ease-payment-burden-with-instalment-option/amp"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Mental health facility occupancy, Netcare Akeso",
      "value": "70.3",
      "unit": "percent",
      "geo": "ZA",
      "period": "2025",
      "tier": 2,
      "status": "proxy",
      "url": "https://www.netcare.co.za/NewsHub/Articles/results-for-the-year-ended-30-september-2025"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Share of insured adults paying insurance premiums via employer payment, Kenya",
      "value": "43.3",
      "unit": "percent",
      "geo": "KE",
      "period": "2024",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://www.centralbank.go.ke/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/2024-FINACCESS-HOUSEHOLD-SURVEY-MAIN-REPORT.pdf"
    },
    {
      "metric": "SHA registered members actively remitting premiums, Kenya",
      "value": "5",
      "unit": "million persons",
      "geo": "KE",
      "period": "2026-08",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/health-science/article/2001555083/sha-enrollment-hits-322-million-but-only-5-million-pay-premiums"
    },
    {
      "metric": "NHIS active membership target for end-2024, Ghana",
      "value": "20.8",
      "unit": "million persons",
      "geo": "GH",
      "period": "2024",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://nhis.gov.gh/News/nhia-membership-and-regional-operations-(mro)-directorate-targets-over-20-million-nhis-active-membership-5624"
    },
    {
      "metric": "People without any health coverage, Morocco",
      "value": "2,34",
      "unit": "million persons",
      "geo": "MA",
      "period": "2024",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://www.courdescomptes.ma/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Rapport-annuel-Cour-des-comptes_2024_2025.pdf"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Physicians per 1,000 people",
      "value": "0.29",
      "unit": "per 1",
      "geo": "KE",
      "period": "2023",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://api.worldbank.org/v2/country/KE;NG;ZA;GH;EG;RW;ET/indicator/SH.MED.PHYS.ZS?format=json&per_page=5000&mrv=3"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Odds ratio of postpartum family planning uptake with mHealth vs standard care, South Ethiopia",
      "value": "2.89",
      "unit": "odds ratio",
      "geo": "ET",
      "period": "2025",
      "tier": 2,
      "status": "proxy",
      "url": "https://europepmc.org/article/MED/41464605"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Postpartum family planning uptake, mHealth arm, South Ethiopia cluster RCT",
      "value": "85",
      "unit": "percent",
      "geo": "ET",
      "period": "2025",
      "tier": 2,
      "status": "proxy",
      "url": "https://europepmc.org/article/MED/41464605"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Borrowed for health or medical purposes, Ghana, poorest 40%",
      "value": "18.40",
      "unit": "percent",
      "geo": "GH",
      "period": "2024",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://data360api.worldbank.org/data360/data?DATABASE_ID=WB_FINDEX&REF_AREA=GHA&INDICATOR=WB_FINDEX_FIN22D&TIME_PERIOD=2024"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Share of AMO Tadamon spending going to private-sector healthcare providers, Morocco",
      "value": "79",
      "unit": "percent",
      "geo": "MA",
      "period": "2024",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://www.courdescomptes.ma/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Rapport-annuel-Cour-des-comptes_2024_2025.pdf"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Medical aid scheme membership rate, All metros metro",
      "value": "22,1",
      "unit": "percent",
      "geo": "ZA",
      "period": "2024",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://www.statssa.gov.za/publications/P0318/P03182024.pdf"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Persons registered with the Social Health Authority, Kenya",
      "value": "32.3",
      "unit": "million persons",
      "geo": "KE",
      "period": "2026-08",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://www.kenyanews.go.ke/?p=179987"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Share of funded e-health startups with a female co-founder, Africa",
      "value": "23.1",
      "unit": "percent",
      "geo": "AFRICA",
      "period": "2025",
      "tier": 3,
      "status": "proxy",
      "url": "https://disruptafrica.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/The-African-Tech-Startups-Funding-Report-2025.pdf"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Contribution collection rate in AMO-TNS (self-employed scheme), Morocco",
      "value": "37",
      "unit": "percent",
      "geo": "MA",
      "period": "2024",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://www.courdescomptes.ma/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Rapport-annuel-Cour-des-comptes_2024_2025.pdf"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Share of NHIS health insurance claims submission and vetting digitised, Ghana",
      "value": "99.9",
      "unit": "percent",
      "geo": "GH",
      "period": "2025",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://nhis.gov.gh/News/nhis-registers-over-18-million-active-members--5982"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Households first consulting a pharmacy when ill",
      "value": "1,1",
      "unit": "percent",
      "geo": "ZA",
      "period": "2024",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://www.statssa.gov.za/publications/P0318/P03182024.pdf"
    }
  ],
  "note": "status: ready = two or more independent sources or an official series; proxy = one source; context = macro background, not a validation figure."
}