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

Central African Republic - Infrastructure

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.

Infrastructure helps determine the success of manufacturing and agricultural activities. Investments in water, sanitation, energy, housing, and transport also improve lives and help reduce poverty. And new information and communication technologies promote growth, improve delivery of health and other services, expand the reach of education, and support social and cultural advances. Data here are compiled from such sources as the International Road Federation, Containerisation International, the International Civil Aviation Organization, the International Energy Association, and the International Telecommunications Union.

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)	992
Columns	8 (2 numeric, 6 categorical, 0 datetime)
Train split	793 rows
Test split	198 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 0.0–30000902087.0).

Identifier / Metadata — indicator_name (Renewable internal freshwater resources per capita (cubic meters), Renewable internal freshwater resources, total (billion cubic meters), Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people)), indicator_code (ER.H2O.INTR.PC, ER.H2O.INTR.K3, IT.CEL.SETS.P2), 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-infrastructure-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 1999.7661)
indicator_name	object	0.0%	Renewable internal freshwater resources per capita (cubic meters), Renewable internal freshwater resources, total (billion cubic meters), Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people)
indicator_code	object	0.0%	ER.H2O.INTR.PC, ER.H2O.INTR.K3, IT.CEL.SETS.P2
value	float64	0.0%	0.0 – 30000902087.0 (mean 224039692.5224)
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	2024.0	1999.7661	2001.0
value	0.0	30000902087.0	224039692.5224	12.7514

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

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