electricsheepafrica/africa-mali-sahel-population-movement-data-16c9f57a

Sahel Population Movement Data | Africa (Mali official open data)

169 rows - 1 Africa country - 2021 - 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: Sahel Population Movement Data
• Publisher: OCHA West and Central Africa (ROWCA)
• Resource: Sahel population movement HNRO 2021.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	169	2021	2021	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.	f53abb96-3814-482b-9eed-9ab5cec48e2f:popmvt: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.	POPMVT
year	Int64	Observation year.	2021
country	string	Source column.	Burkina Faso
2012	string	Source column.	56817
2013	string	Source column.	35859
2014	string	Source column.	35000
2015	string	Source column.	30000
2016	float64	Source column.	34322.0
2017	float64	Source column.	32227.0
2018	float64	Source column.	24202.0
2019	float64	Source column.	24202.0
2020	float64	Source column.	25922.0
march_2021	float64	Source column.	20256.0
source_period_start_year	Int64	First year inferred from source resource metadata.	2021
source_period_end_year	Int64	Last year inferred from source resource metadata.	2021
source_period_label	category	Human-readable period inferred from source resource metadata.	2021
source_provider	category	Publishing organization.	OCHA West and Central Africa (ROWCA)
source_dataset	category	Source package title.	Sahel Population Movement Data
source_resource	category	Source resource title.	Sahel population movement HNRO 2021.xlsx
source_package_id	category	CKAN package UUID.	370b28e6-5c76-4c69-992e-8d2bb126a598
source_resource_id	category	CKAN resource UUID.	f53abb96-3814-482b-9eed-9ab5cec48e2f
source_url	category	Original source resource URL.	https://data.humdata.org/dataset/370b28e6-5c76-4c69-992e-8d2bb126a598/re
license_id	category	Source license identifier.	cc-by
retrieved_at	category	UTC retrieval timestamp.	2026-08-13T10:40:31Z
admin1	string	Source column.	``
category	string	Source column.	``
region	string	Source column.	``
data	float64	Source column.	``
comments	string	Source column.	``

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-mali-sahel-population-movement-data-16c9f57a")
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_sahel_population_movement_data_16c9f57a_2021,
  title        = {Sahel Population Movement Data | Africa (Mali official open data)},
  author       = {OCHA West and Central Africa (ROWCA)},
  year         = {2021},
  url          = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/sahel-population-movement},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-mali-sahel-population-movement-data-16c9f57a}}
}

License

Released under CC BY 4.0.

Original data (c) OCHA West and Central Africa (ROWCA). 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/370b28e6-5c76-4c69-992e-8d2bb126a598/resource/f53abb96-3814-482b-9eed-9ab5cec48e2f/download/sahel-population-mvt-hnro-2021.xlsx