electricsheepafrica/africa-mali-health-facilities-in-sub-saharan-africa-852769b7

Health Facilities in Sub-Saharan Africa | Africa (Mali official open data)

98,745 rows - 1 Africa country - not-applicable - 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: Health Facilities in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Publisher: HDX
• Resource: Sub-Saharan_health_facilities.xlsx
• Format: XLSX
• License: CC BY 4.0
• Packaging mode: tabular_resource

Geographic coverage

1 Africa country:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
MLI	98,745	n/a	n/a	Mali

Indicators or Resource Contents

• This source file is packaged as a normalized tabular resource.

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
source_record_id	string	Stable row identifier for tabular resources.	758d5c17-88f4-42b2-9d4b-4bfe32d4acf7:subsaharan-health-facilities:0
country_iso3	category	ISO3 country code.	MLI
country_name	category	Country name.	Mali
source_sheet	string	Workbook sheet name, when the source is a spreadsheet.	Subsaharan_health_facilities
country	string	Source column.	Angola
admin1	string	Source column.	Bengo
facility_n	string	Source column.	Hospital Barra Do Dande
facility_t	string	Source column.	Hospital
ownership	string	Source column.	Govt.
lat	float64	Source column.	-8.656
long	float64	Source column.	13.4918999999999
ll_source	string	Source column.	Google Earth
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.	HDX
source_dataset	category	Source package title.	Health Facilities in Sub-Saharan Africa
source_resource	category	Source resource title.	Sub-Saharan_health_facilities.xlsx
source_package_id	category	CKAN package UUID.	eb1ba830-9464-43c8-9370-28cee0c99f5d
source_resource_id	category	CKAN resource UUID.	758d5c17-88f4-42b2-9d4b-4bfe32d4acf7
source_url	category	Original source resource URL.	https://data.humdata.org/dataset/eb1ba830-9464-43c8-9370-28cee0c99f5d/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-health-facilities-in-sub-saharan-africa-852769b7")
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_health_facilities_in_sub_saharan_africa_852769b7_2026,
  title        = {Health Facilities in Sub-Saharan Africa | Africa (Mali official open data)},
  author       = {HDX},
  year         = {2026},
  url          = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/health-facilities-in-sub-saharan-africa},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-mali-health-facilities-in-sub-saharan-africa-852769b7}}
}

License

Released under CC BY 4.0.

Original data (c) HDX. 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/eb1ba830-9464-43c8-9370-28cee0c99f5d/resource/758d5c17-88f4-42b2-9d4b-4bfe32d4acf7/download/sub-saharan_health_facilities.xlsx