metadata
license: gpl
language:
- en
tags:
- medical
- surgery
- health
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
Africa: Specialist surgical workforce (per 100,000 population)
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.
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.
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.
Use with caution for early years and countries with imputed values (see data quality notes below).
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.
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.