We can see where care is delivered better than we can see what is registered

Here is what makes Africa genuinely interesting rather than simply under-covered. The registration layer is thin, but the care-delivery layer is not: we hold well over a hundred thousand health facilities across Ethiopia and Nigeria alone — far more facility records than registration records, which is the reverse of every other region on this site.

For a manufacturer, that changes which question is answerable. "Who are my registered competitors here" is a question the registration record answers poorly. "Where is care actually delivered, at what kind of facility, at what density" is a question it answers well — and for a company weighing distribution, a donor-funded programme, or a tender-led entry, that second question is frequently the one that matters.

Africa is the region where we are most likely to tell you that data is not the binding constraint. Registration is often the simpler part; the difficult parts are import and customs handling, payment and currency terms, distributor capitalisation, and whether a market is best approached commercially at all or through a donor or ministry programme with entirely different mechanics.

None of that is visible in a register, and none of it is a software problem. We work with people who operate in these markets and can make an introduction — no fee, no arrangement. If Africa is on your list, that conversation is worth having before the data one.

The two markets here are early-stage in our coverage and should be read that way: the record counts are small enough that they describe the registry's published surface rather than the size of the market.

Both are worth watching rather than modelling. Where a route exists, it tends to lean on approvals granted elsewhere, so work done for Europe or the US carries further here than it does in Asia.