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| license: gpl |
| language: |
| - en |
| tags: |
| - medical |
| - surgery |
| - health |
| size_categories: |
| - 1K<n<10K |
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| # Africa: Specialist surgical workforce (per 100,000 population) |
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| ## Dataset summary |
| - This dataset provides the density of specialist surgical workforce (per 100,000 population) across African countries, standardized and made ML-ready. |
| - Geographic scope: 54 African countries. |
| - Temporal coverage: 1960–2024 (annual). |
| - Units: Specialists per 100,000 population. |
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| ## Source & licensing |
| - Source: World Bank – World Development Indicators (WDI), Indicator code: `SH.MED.SAOP.P5`. |
| - License: World Bank Open Data terms. Users are responsible for compliance with the World Bank Data Terms of Use. |
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| ## Intended uses |
| - Cross-country analyses and visualization of health system capacity. |
| - As an input feature for ML models on health outcomes, access to care, and system readiness. |
| - Educational and exploratory data analysis. |
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| Use with caution for early years and countries with imputed values (see data quality notes below). |
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| ## Processing summary |
| Missing values in the pivot were handled via: |
| - Linear interpolation along years (`limit_direction="both"`) |
| - Forward fill |
| - Backward fill |
| Countries with no observations across all years remain entirely NaN. |
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| ## Coverage and data quality notes |
| - Earliest non-missing observation (across all countries): 2008. |
| - Countries with no observations (all NaN in pivot): |
| - Angola, Comoros, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Libya, Mauritania, Sao Tome and Principe. |
