electricsheepafrica/africa-world-bank-combined-indicators-for-central-african-republic

Central African Republic - Economic, Social, Environmental, Health, Education, Development and Energy

Publisher: World Bank Group · Source: HDX · License: cc-by · Updated: 2026-03-27

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Abstract

Contains data from the World Bank's data portal covering the following topics which also exist as individual datasets on HDX: Agriculture and Rural Development, Aid Effectiveness, Economy and Growth, Education, Energy and Mining, Environment, Financial Sector, Health, Infrastructure, Social Protection and Labor, Poverty, Private Sector, Public Sector, Science and Technology, Social Development, Urban Development, Gender, Millenium development goals, Climate Change, External Debt, Trade.

Each row in this dataset represents country-level aggregates. Data was last updated on HDX on 2026-03-27. Geographic scope: CAF.

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

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Dataset Characteristics

Domain	Public health
Unit of observation	Country-level aggregates
Rows (total)	50,570
Columns	8 (2 numeric, 6 categorical, 0 datetime)
Train split	40,456 rows
Test split	10,114 rows
Geographic scope	CAF
Publisher	World Bank Group
HDX last updated	2026-03-27

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Variables

Geographic — country_name (Central African Republic), country_iso3 (CAF), year (range 1960.0–2025.0).

Outcome / Measurement — value (range -976372767200.0–2179425036600.0).

Identifier / Metadata — indicator_name (Domestic credit to private sector (% of GDP), Population in largest city, Population in the largest city (% of urban population)), indicator_code (EN.URB.LCTY, EN.URB.LCTY.UR.ZS, SM.POP.NETM), esa_source (HDX), esa_processed (2026-04-16).

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Quick Start

from datasets import load_dataset

ds    = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-world-bank-combined-indicators-for-central-african-republic")
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
country_name	object	0.0%	Central African Republic
country_iso3	object	0.0%	CAF
year	int64	0.0%	1960.0 – 2025.0 (mean 1997.7763)
indicator_name	object	0.0%	Domestic credit to private sector (% of GDP), Population in largest city, Population in the largest city (% of urban population)
indicator_code	object	0.0%	EN.URB.LCTY, EN.URB.LCTY.UR.ZS, SM.POP.NETM
value	float64	0.0%	-976372767200.0 – 2179425036600.0 (mean 10680595814.9028)
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
year	1960.0	2025.0	1997.7763	2000.0
value	-976372767200.0	2179425036600.0	10680595814.9028	46.989

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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. 14,867 exact duplicate rows were removed. 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 World Bank Group and has not been independently validated by ESA.
• Automated cleaning cannot correct for misreported values, definitional inconsistencies, or sampling bias in the original collection.
• Refer to the original HDX dataset page for the publisher's own methodology notes and caveats.

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Citation

@dataset{hdx_africa_world_bank_combined_indicators_for_central_african_republic,
  title     = {Central African Republic - Economic, Social, Environmental, Health, Education, Development and Energy},
  author    = {World Bank Group},
  year      = {2026},
  url       = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/world-bank-combined-indicators-for-central-african-republic},
  note      = {Repackaged for machine learning by Electric Sheep Africa (https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica)}
}

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