Assessing the Synergistic Relationship between Clean Energy Access and Inclusive Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

This dataset supports the study titled “Assessing the Synergistic Relationship between Clean Energy Access and Inclusive Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa”, which investigates how clean energy access contributes to inclusive growth across 46 Sub-Saharan African countries between 2000 and 2023. The analysis constructs two composite indices: the Inclusive Growth Index (IGI) and the Human Capital Index (HCI). The Inclusive Growth Index is generated using three key normalized indicators: GDP per capita (constant 2015 US$), employment-to-population ratio (percent), and inverted Gini index (1 minus the normalized Gini coefficient)—capturing economic performance, labor market inclusion, and income distribution respectively. The IGI is scaled between 0 and 1, where higher values indicate more inclusive growth. The Human Capital Index comprises normalized values of primary school enrollment, life expectancy at birth, and DPT immunization coverage. It reflects the combined strength of education and health systems across countries and years. Additional variables include clean energy access (access to electricity and clean cooking fuels), FDI inflows, inflation rate, population growth, and trade openness. The panel structure enables cross-country and temporal comparison and is suitable for use in econometric analysis (e.g., panel ARDL, GMM, FMOLS). Researchers can use this dataset for replication, robustness checks, or to expand upon the findings relating to clean energy transitions, inclusive growth, and sustainable development goals in Sub-Saharan Africa. the weight of 0.3 was assigned to the normalized values before aggregation Response Rates: Secondary data 46 countries and in 24 years None. Smallest Geographic Unit: 1 Inclusive Growth index and Human Capital Index were constructed using Min-Max Normalization and weighting process