electricsheepafrica/africa-worldbank-number-of-years-of-free-primary-and-secondary-education-guaranteed-in-legal-fra

Number of years of free primary and secondary education guaranteed in legal frameworks | Africa (World Bank — Education Statistics)

🌍 648 observations · 33 Africa countries · 1998–2020 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 648 observations of Education Statistics data across 33 Africa countries, spanning 1998–2020, 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

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

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
DZA	23	1998	2020
MWI	22	1998	2019
BEN	22	1998	2019
CIV	22	1998	2019
CAF	22	1998	2019
COG	22	1998	2019
EGY	22	1998	2019
CPV	22	1998	2019
COM	22	1998	2019
GHA	22	1998	2019
GAB	22	1998	2019
ETH	22	1998	2019
LBY	22	1998	2019
KEN	22	1998	2019
GNQ	22	1998	2019
...	18 more countries

Indicators (sample)

• UIS.YEARS.FC.FREE.1T3 — Number of years of free primary and secondary education guaranteed in legal frameworks

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
indicator_id	string	—	UIS.YEARS.FC.FREE.1T3
indicator_name	string	—	Number of years of free primary and s…
country_iso3	string	—	DZA
country_name	string	—	Algeria
year	int64	—	2020
value	float64	—	12.0

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-worldbank-number-of-years-of-free-primary-and-secondary-education-guaranteed-in-legal-fra")
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.YEARS.FC.FREE.1T3"]
          .sort_values("year"))
sample.plot(x="year", y="value", title="UIS.YEARS.FC.FREE.1T3")

Pivot to country × year matrix

matrix = (df[df["indicator_id"] == "UIS.YEARS.FC.FREE.1T3"]
          .pivot_table(index="year", columns="country_iso3", values="value"))
print(matrix.tail())

Citation

@misc{africa_worldbank_number_of_years_of_free_primary_and_secondary_education_guaranteed_in_legal_fra_2020,
  title        = {Number of years of free primary and secondary education guaranteed in legal frameworks | Africa (World Bank — Education Statistics)},
  author       = {World Bank},
  year         = {2020},
  url          = {https://databank.worldbank.org/},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-worldbank-number-of-years-of-free-primary-and-secondary-education-guaranteed-in-legal-fra}}
}

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.

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Provenance: ingested 2026-06-19 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://databank.worldbank.org/