The gendered open data report 2018 evaluated currently available data from 19 Anglophone African countries; Botswana, Cameroon, The Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mauritius, Namibia, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The purpose of this study is to explore the state of gendered open data in these countries which it addresses by looking at three domains; data availability, sex disaggregation and data openness all of which are central to gendered data being an effective tool in the push for gender equality.