electricsheepafrica/africa-mali-africa-total-migrants-56ade39f

Africa Total Migrants | Africa (Mali official open data)

67 rows - 1 Africa country - 2006-2014 - Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset packages one official XLSX resource from Mali as ML-ready Parquet. The source file is the provenance boundary; all usable indicators or tabular columns from the resource stay together in this repo.

About the source

• Source: Africa Total Migrants
• Publisher: United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
• Resource: POPULATION-migration.xlsx
• Format: XLSX
• License: CC BY 4.0
• Packaging mode: indicator_long

Geographic coverage

1 Africa country:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
MLI	67	2006	2014	Mali

Indicators or Resource Contents

• africa-total-migrants-56ade39f - Africa Total Migrants

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
indicator_id	string	Stable indicator identifier.	africa-total-migrants-56ade39f
indicator_name	string	Human-readable indicator name.	Africa Total Migrants
country_iso3	string	ISO3 country code.	MLI
source_sheet	string	Workbook sheet name, when the source is a spreadsheet.	Sheet1
country_name	string	Country name.	Mali
year	Int64	Observation year.	2006
value	float64	Numeric observation value.	613662.0
unit	string	Measurement unit, when available.	source_units_unspecified
dimension_country	string	Source dimension.	Burkina Faso
dimension_pays	string	Source dimension.	Burkina Faso
source_period_start_year	Int64	First year inferred from source resource metadata.	``
source_period_end_year	Int64	Last year inferred from source resource metadata.	``
source_period_label	string	Human-readable period inferred from source resource metadata.	``
source_provider	category	Publishing organization.	United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
source_dataset	category	Source package title.	Africa Total Migrants
source_resource	category	Source resource title.	POPULATION-migration.xlsx
source_package_id	category	CKAN package UUID.	c8463852-56d5-4e7e-8fba-85bf97370a31
source_resource_id	category	CKAN resource UUID.	582e2c94-d2f0-44d1-873e-3c72f98167af
source_url	category	Original source resource URL.	https://data.humdata.org/dataset/c8463852-56d5-4e7e-8fba-85bf97370a31/re
license_id	category	Source license identifier.	cc-by
retrieved_at	category	UTC retrieval timestamp.	2026-08-13T10:40:31Z

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-mali-africa-total-migrants-56ade39f")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

sample_country = df[df["country_iso3"] == "MLI"]

Work with indicators

if "indicator_id" in df.columns:
    print(df["indicator_id"].value_counts().head())
    sample = df.sort_values([c for c in ["indicator_id", "year"] if c in df.columns])

Citation

@misc{electric_sheep_africa_africa_mali_africa_total_migrants_56ade39f_2014,
  title        = {Africa Total Migrants | Africa (Mali official open data)},
  author       = {United Nations Economic Commission for Africa},
  year         = {2014},
  url          = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/total-migrants-total-migrants},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-mali-africa-total-migrants-56ade39f}}
}

License

Released under CC BY 4.0.

Original data (c) United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. When using this dataset, please cite both the original source above and the Electric Sheep Africa repackaging.

About Electric Sheep

Electric Sheep Africa is part of the Electric Sheep mission: a unified, ML-ready data layer for Africa on Hugging Face. We pull data from authoritative open sources, normalize the schemas, package as Parquet, and publish with consistent dataset cards so researchers and developers can use load_dataset() to start working in seconds.

Browse the full collection: huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica

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Provenance: ingested 2026-08-13 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://data.humdata.org/dataset/c8463852-56d5-4e7e-8fba-85bf97370a31/resource/582e2c94-d2f0-44d1-873e-3c72f98167af/download/population-migration.xlsx