electricsheepafrica/africa-world-bank-urban-development-indicators-for-central-african-republic

Central African Republic - Urban Development

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.

Cities can be tremendously efficient. It is easier to provide water and sanitation to people living closer together, while access to health, education, and other social and cultural services is also much more readily available. However, as cities grow, the cost of meeting basic needs increases, as does the strain on the environment and natural resources. Data on urbanization, traffic and congestion, and air pollution are from the United Nations Population Division, World Health Organization, International Road Federation, World Resources Institute, and other sources.

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)	508
Columns	8 (2 numeric, 6 categorical, 0 datetime)
Train split	406 rows
Test split	101 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 -0.4158–2352133.0).

Identifier / Metadata — indicator_name (Population in largest city, Population in the largest city (% of urban population), Urban population (% of total population)), indicator_code (EN.URB.LCTY, EN.URB.LCTY.UR.ZS, SP.URB.TOTL.IN.ZS), 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-urban-development-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 1995.7953)
indicator_name	object	0.0%	Population in largest city, Population in the largest city (% of urban population), Urban population (% of total population)
indicator_code	object	0.0%	EN.URB.LCTY, EN.URB.LCTY.UR.ZS, SP.URB.TOTL.IN.ZS
value	float64	0.0%	-0.4158 – 2352133.0 (mean 222340.3699)
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	1995.7953	1999.0
value	-0.4158	2352133.0	222340.3699	36.3876

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

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