electricsheepafrica/africa-cameroon-cameroon-subnational-population-statistics-917f2c7a

Cameroon - Subnational Population Statistics | Africa (Cameroon official open data)

540 rows - 1 Africa country - 2024 - Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset packages one official CSV resource from Cameroon as ML-ready Parquet. The source file is the provenance boundary; all usable indicators or tabular columns from the resource stay together in this repo.

About the source

• Source: Cameroon - Subnational Population Statistics
• Publisher: UNFPA
• Resource: cmr_admpop_adm1_2024.csv
• Format: CSV
• License: CC BY 4.0
• Packaging mode: indicator_long

Geographic coverage

1 Africa country:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
CMR	540	2024	2024	Cameroon

Indicators or Resource Contents

• cameroon-subnational-population-statistics-f-tl-5f9f8cf3 - Cameroon - Subnational Population Statistics - f tl
• cameroon-subnational-population-statistics-m-tl-b8944e68 - Cameroon - Subnational Population Statistics - m tl
• cameroon-subnational-population-statistics-t-tl-ac75a093 - Cameroon - Subnational Population Statistics - t tl
• cameroon-subnational-population-statistics-f-00-04-3aebe592 - Cameroon - Subnational Population Statistics - f 00 04
• cameroon-subnational-population-statistics-f-05-09-91022ac1 - Cameroon - Subnational Population Statistics - f 05 09
• cameroon-subnational-population-statistics-f-10-14-86321d2b - Cameroon - Subnational Population Statistics - f 10 14
• cameroon-subnational-population-statistics-f-15-19-e96a6a49 - Cameroon - Subnational Population Statistics - f 15 19
• cameroon-subnational-population-statistics-f-20-24-8fc57984 - Cameroon - Subnational Population Statistics - f 20 24
• cameroon-subnational-population-statistics-f-25-29-8d2cd1bf - Cameroon - Subnational Population Statistics - f 25 29
• cameroon-subnational-population-statistics-f-30-34-dee4fe7d - Cameroon - Subnational Population Statistics - f 30 34
• cameroon-subnational-population-statistics-f-35-39-cc9c7c0d - Cameroon - Subnational Population Statistics - f 35 39
• cameroon-subnational-population-statistics-f-40-44-e8585e7b - Cameroon - Subnational Population Statistics - f 40 44
• cameroon-subnational-population-statistics-f-45-49-7ce6b635 - Cameroon - Subnational Population Statistics - f 45 49
• cameroon-subnational-population-statistics-f-50-54-1f7f28a3 - Cameroon - Subnational Population Statistics - f 50 54
• cameroon-subnational-population-statistics-f-55-59-62adbdda - Cameroon - Subnational Population Statistics - f 55 59
• cameroon-subnational-population-statistics-f-60-64-ccf3ff78 - Cameroon - Subnational Population Statistics - f 60 64
• cameroon-subnational-population-statistics-f-65-69-dde6dd25 - Cameroon - Subnational Population Statistics - f 65 69
• cameroon-subnational-population-statistics-f-70-74-d42274c5 - Cameroon - Subnational Population Statistics - f 70 74
• cameroon-subnational-population-statistics-f-75-79-e09ab00a - Cameroon - Subnational Population Statistics - f 75 79
• cameroon-subnational-population-statistics-f-80plus-e79d8aec - Cameroon - Subnational Population Statistics - f 80plus

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
indicator_id	string	Stable indicator identifier.	cameroon-subnational-population-statistics-f-tl-5f9f8cf3
indicator_name	string	Human-readable indicator name.	Cameroon - Subnational Population Statistics - f tl
country_iso3	string	ISO3 country code.	CMR
country_name	string	Country name.	Cameroon
year	Int64	Observation year.	2024
value	float64	Numeric observation value.	773375.0
unit	string	Measurement unit, when available.	source_units_unspecified
dimension_iso3	string	Source dimension.	CMR
dimension_adm0_en	string	Source dimension.	Cameroon
dimension_adm0_fr	string	Source dimension.	Cameroun (le)
dimension_adm0_pcode	string	Source dimension.	CM
dimension_adm1_en	string	Source dimension.	Adamawa
dimension_adm1_fr	string	Source dimension.	Adamaoua
dimension_adm1_pcode	string	Source dimension.	CM001
source_period_start_year	Int64	First year inferred from source resource metadata.	2024
source_period_end_year	Int64	Last year inferred from source resource metadata.	2024
source_period_label	category	Human-readable period inferred from source resource metadata.	2024
source_provider	category	Publishing organization.	UNFPA
source_dataset	category	Source package title.	Cameroon - Subnational Population Statistics
source_resource	category	Source resource title.	cmr_admpop_adm1_2024.csv
source_package_id	category	CKAN package UUID.	e8db7923-6cd2-4974-ad57-14a157978cfd
source_resource_id	category	CKAN resource UUID.	07b7f2eb-79cf-489a-a726-d6092deb83e9
source_url	category	Original source resource URL.	https://data.humdata.org/dataset/e8db7923-6cd2-4974-ad57-14a157978cfd/re
license_id	category	Source license identifier.	cc-by
retrieved_at	category	UTC retrieval timestamp.	2026-08-25T16:58:39Z

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-cameroon-cameroon-subnational-population-statistics-917f2c7a")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

sample_country = df[df["country_iso3"] == "CMR"]

Work with indicators

if "indicator_id" in df.columns:
    print(df["indicator_id"].value_counts().head())
    sample = df.sort_values([c for c in ["indicator_id", "year"] if c in df.columns])

Citation

@misc{electric_sheep_africa_africa_cameroon_cameroon_subnational_population_statistics_917f2c7a_2024,
  title        = {Cameroon - Subnational Population Statistics | Africa (Cameroon official open data)},
  author       = {UNFPA},
  year         = {2024},
  url          = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/cod-ps-cmr},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-cameroon-cameroon-subnational-population-statistics-917f2c7a}}
}

License

Released under CC BY 4.0.

Original data (c) UNFPA. 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 Hugging Face. 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 2026-08-25 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://data.humdata.org/dataset/e8db7923-6cd2-4974-ad57-14a157978cfd/resource/07b7f2eb-79cf-489a-a726-d6092deb83e9/download/cmr_admpop_adm1_2024.csv