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

Central African Republic - Environment

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. There is also a consolidated country dataset on HDX.

Natural and man-made environmental resources – fresh water, clean air, forests, grasslands, marine resources, and agro-ecosystems – provide sustenance and a foundation for social and economic development. The need to safeguard these resources crosses all borders. Today, the World Bank is one of the key promoters and financiers of environmental upgrading in the developing world. Data here cover forests, biodiversity, emissions, and pollution. Other indicators relevant to the environment are found under data pages for Agriculture & Rural Development, Energy & Mining, Infrastructure, and Urban Development.

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	Water, sanitation and hygiene (wash)
Unit of observation	Country-level aggregates
Rows (total)	4,726
Columns	8 (2 numeric, 6 categorical, 0 datetime)
Train split	3,780 rows
Test split	945 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 1960.0–2024.0).

Outcome / Measurement — value (range -113319962.6639–539258953.7341).

Identifier / Metadata — indicator_name (Aquaculture production (metric tons), Capture fisheries production (metric tons), Total fisheries production (metric tons)), indicator_code (ER.FSH.AQUA.MT, ER.FSH.CAPT.MT, ER.FSH.PROD.MT), esa_source (HDX), esa_processed (2026-04-17).

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Quick Start

from datasets import load_dataset

ds    = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-world-bank-environment-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 – 2024.0 (mean 2000.4312)
indicator_name	object	0.0%	Aquaculture production (metric tons), Capture fisheries production (metric tons), Total fisheries production (metric tons)
indicator_code	object	0.0%	ER.FSH.AQUA.MT, ER.FSH.CAPT.MT, ER.FSH.PROD.MT
value	float64	0.0%	-113319962.6639 – 539258953.7341 (mean 2119526.8685)
esa_source	object	0.0%	HDX
esa_processed	object	0.0%	2026-04-17

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Numeric Summary

Column	Min	Max	Mean	Median
year	1960.0	2024.0	2000.4312	2003.0
value	-113319962.6639	539258953.7341	2119526.8685	1.9773

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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 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_environment_indicators_for_central_african_republic,
  title     = {Central African Republic - Environment},
  author    = {World Bank Group},
  year      = {2026},
  url       = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/world-bank-environment-indicators-for-central-african-republic},
  note      = {Repackaged for machine learning by Electric Sheep Africa (https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica)}
}

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