electricsheepafrica/africa-worldbank-end-month-of-the-academic-school-year-tertiary-education-uis-yr-end-mon-6t8

End month of the academic school year (tertiary education) | Africa (World Bank — Education Statistics)

🌍 688 observations · 37 Africa countries · 1997–2019 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 688 observations of Education Statistics data across 37 Africa countries, spanning 1997–2019, covering 1 distinct indicators.

About the source

• Source: World Bank — Education Statistics
• Publisher: World Bank
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: Education Statistics

Geographic coverage

37 Africa countries · top rows shown below, sorted by row count:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
BFA	22	1998	2019
MAR	22	1998	2019
MRT	22	1998	2019
GHA	22	1998	2019
BEN	21	1998	2018
NAM	21	1997	2017
MOZ	21	1998	2018
DZA	21	1998	2018
CMR	21	1998	2018
KEN	21	1998	2019
MDG	21	1998	2018
CPV	21	1998	2018
BDI	20	1998	2018
CIV	20	1998	2017
BWA	20	1998	2019
...	22 more countries

Indicators (sample)

• UIS.YR.END.MON.6T8 — End month of the academic school year (tertiary education)

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
indicator_id	string	—	UIS.YR.END.MON.6T8
indicator_name	string	—	End month of the academic school year…
country_iso3	string	—	DZA
country_name	string	—	Algeria
year	int64	—	2018
value	float64	—	7.0

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-worldbank-end-month-of-the-academic-school-year-tertiary-education-uis-yr-end-mon-6t8")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

kenya = df[df["country_iso3"] == "KEN"]

Time-series for a single indicator

sample = (df[df["indicator_id"] == "UIS.YR.END.MON.6T8"]
          .sort_values("year"))
sample.plot(x="year", y="value", title="UIS.YR.END.MON.6T8")

Pivot to country × year matrix

matrix = (df[df["indicator_id"] == "UIS.YR.END.MON.6T8"]
          .pivot_table(index="year", columns="country_iso3", values="value"))
print(matrix.tail())

Citation

@misc{africa_worldbank_end_month_of_the_academic_school_year_tertiary_education_uis_yr_end_mon_6t8_2019,
  title        = {End month of the academic school year (tertiary education) | Africa (World Bank — Education Statistics)},
  author       = {World Bank},
  year         = {2019},
  url          = {https://databank.worldbank.org/},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-worldbank-end-month-of-the-academic-school-year-tertiary-education-uis-yr-end-mon-6t8}}
}

License

Released under cc-by-4.0.

Original data © World Bank. 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 HuggingFace. 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 2026-06-19 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://databank.worldbank.org/