electricsheepafrica/africa-comoros-uneca-population-and-migration

COMOROS - Population and migration indicators, UNECA

Publisher: United Nations Economic Commission for Africa · Source: HDX · License: cc-by-igo · Updated: 2024-09-13

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Abstract

This dataset contains many indicators related to population and migration such as Average annual population growth rate, Population 15-19 , Annual rate of change of the migrant stock, International migrant stock at mid-year, etc. The whole list and their description can be find in this link https://bit.ly/2ODhFQh

Each row in this dataset represents tabular records. Data was last updated on HDX on 2024-09-13. Geographic scope: COM.

Curated into ML-ready Parquet format by Electric Sheep Africa.

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Dataset Characteristics

Domain	Demographics and population
Unit of observation	Tabular records
Rows (total)	42
Columns	51 (48 numeric, 3 categorical, 0 datetime)
Train split	33 rows
Test split	8 rows
Geographic scope	COM
Publisher	United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
HDX last updated	2024-09-13

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Variables

Identifier / Metadata — esa_source (HDX), esa_processed (2026-04-16).

Other — indicator (Average annual population growth rate - Total (%), Net reproduction rate (per woman), Life expectancy at birth - Total (years)), 1970 (range 0.2–118.5), 1971 (range 0.2–120.7), 1972 (range 0.2–123.1), 1973 (range 0.2–125.8) and 44 others.

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Quick Start

from datasets import load_dataset

ds    = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-comoros-uneca-population-and-migration")
train = ds["train"].to_pandas()
test  = ds["test"].to_pandas()

print(train.shape)
train.head()

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Schema

Column	Type	Null %	Range / Sample Values
indicator	object	0.0%	Average annual population growth rate - Total (%), Net reproduction rate (per woman), Life expectancy at birth - Total (years)
1970	float64	47.6%	0.2 – 118.5 (mean 44.1273)
1971	float64	47.6%	0.2 – 120.7 (mean 44.8273)
1972	float64	47.6%	0.2 – 123.1 (mean 45.5364)
1973	float64	47.6%	0.2 – 125.8 (mean 46.2864)
1974	float64	47.6%	0.2 – 129.0 (mean 47.2045)
1975	float64	47.6%	0.3 – 132.8 (mean 48.3591)
1976	float64	47.6%	0.3 – 137.2 (mean 49.6818)
1977	float64	47.6%	0.3 – 142.2 (mean 51.1545)
1978	float64	47.6%	0.3 – 147.7 (mean 52.7636)
1979	float64	47.6%	0.3 – 153.3 (mean 54.3682)
1980	float64	47.6%	0.3 – 158.7 (mean 55.8682)
1981	float64	47.6%	0.3 – 163.3 (mean 57.3273)
1982	float64	47.6%	0.3 – 167.6 (mean 58.7227)
1983	float64	47.6%	0.3 – 172.0 (mean 60.0909)
1984	float64	47.6%	0.3 – 176.6 (mean 61.4773)
1985	float64	47.6%	0.4 – 181.5 (mean 62.9364)
1986	float64	47.6%	0.4 – 186.2 (mean 64.4409)
1987	float64	47.6%	0.4 – 191.4 (mean 66.0182)
1988	float64	47.6%	0.4 – 197.0 (mean 67.6182)
1989	float64	47.6%	0.4 – 203.0 (mean 69.3)
1990	float64	4.8%
1991	float64	47.6%
1992	float64	47.6%
1993	float64	47.6%
1994	float64	47.6%
1995	float64	4.8%
1996	float64	47.6%
1997	float64	47.6%
1998	float64	47.6%
1999	float64	47.6%
2000	float64	2.4%
2001	float64	45.2%
2002	float64	45.2%
2003	float64	45.2%
2004	float64	45.2%
2005	float64	0.0%
2006	float64	45.2%
2007	float64	45.2%
2008	float64	45.2%
2009	float64	45.2%
2010	float64	0.0%
2011	float64	45.2%
2012	float64	45.2%
2013	float64	47.6%
2014	float64	47.6%
2015	float64	4.8%
2016	float64	50.0%
2017	float64	31.0%
esa_source	object	0.0%	HDX
esa_processed	object	0.0%	2026-04-16

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Numeric Summary

Column	Min	Max	Mean	Median
1970	0.2	118.5	44.1273	45.85
1971	0.2	120.7	44.8273	46.05
1972	0.2	123.1	45.5364	46.3
1973	0.2	125.8	46.2864	46.5
1974	0.2	129.0	47.2045	46.75
1975	0.3	132.8	48.3591	47.05
1976	0.3	137.2	49.6818	47.55
1977	0.3	142.2	51.1545	48.05
1978	0.3	147.7	52.7636	48.6
1979	0.3	153.3	54.3682	49.2
1980	0.3	158.7	55.8682	49.5
1981	0.3	163.3	57.3273	49.85
1982	0.3	167.6	58.7227	50.15
1983	0.3	172.0	60.0909	50.5
1984	0.3	176.6	61.4773	50.8

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Curation

Raw data was downloaded from HDX via the CKAN API and converted to Parquet. Column names were lowercased and standardised to snake_case. Common missing-value markers (N/A, null, none, -, unknown, no data, #N/A) were unified to NaN. The dataset was split 80/20 into train and test partitions using a fixed random seed (42) and saved as Snappy-compressed Parquet.

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Limitations

• Data originates from United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and has not been independently validated by ESA.
• Automated cleaning cannot correct for misreported values, definitional inconsistencies, or sampling bias in the original collection.
• The following columns have >20% missing values and should be treated with caution in modelling: 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977....
• Refer to the original HDX dataset page for the publisher's own methodology notes and caveats.

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Citation

@dataset{hdx_africa_comoros_uneca_population_and_migration,
  title     = {COMOROS - Population and migration indicators, UNECA},
  author    = {United Nations Economic Commission for Africa},
  year      = {2024},
  url       = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/comoros-uneca-population-and-migration},
  note      = {Repackaged for machine learning by Electric Sheep Africa (https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica)}
}

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