electricsheepafrica/africa-central-african-republic-global-subnational-population-statistics-2bdc2895

Global - Subnational Population Statistics | Africa (Central African Republic official open data)

17,465 rows - 1 Africa country - 2018 - Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset packages one official CSV resource from Central African Republic 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: Global - Subnational Population Statistics
• Publisher: HDX
• Resource: cod_population_admin4.csv
• Format: CSV
• License: CC BY 4.0
• Packaging mode: indicator_long

Geographic coverage

1 Africa country:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
CAF	17,465	2018	2018	Central African Republic

Indicators or Resource Contents

• global-subnational-population-statistics-74707779 - Global - Subnational Population Statistics

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
indicator_id	string	Stable indicator identifier.	global-subnational-population-statistics-74707779
indicator_name	string	Human-readable indicator name.	Global - Subnational Population Statistics
country_iso3	string	ISO3 country code.	CAF
country_name	string	Country name.	Central African Republic
year	Int64	Observation year.	2018
value	float64	Numeric observation value.	1347.0
unit	string	Measurement unit, when available.	source_units_unspecified
dimension_iso3	string	Source dimension.	MDG
dimension_country	string	Source dimension.	Madagascar
dimension_adm1_pcode	string	Source dimension.	MG11
dimension_adm1_name	string	Source dimension.	Analamanga
dimension_adm2_pcode	string	Source dimension.	MG11101001A
dimension_adm2_name	string	Source dimension.	1er Arrondissement
dimension_adm3_pcode	string	Source dimension.	MG11101001
dimension_adm3_name	string	Source dimension.	1er Arrondissement
dimension_adm4_pcode	string	Source dimension.	MG11101001001
dimension_adm4_name	string	Source dimension.	Antanimalalaka Analakely
dimension_population_group	string	Source dimension.	T_TL
dimension_gender	string	Source dimension.	all
dimension_age_range	string	Source dimension.	all
dimension_source	string	Source dimension.	INSTAT / Madagascar BNGRC (National Disaster Management Agency ) 2009 po
dimension_contributor	string	Source dimension.	OCHA Regional Office for Southern and Eastern Africa (ROSEA)
source_period_start_year	Int64	First year inferred from source resource metadata.	``
source_period_end_year	Int64	Last year inferred from source resource metadata.	``
source_period_label	string	Human-readable period inferred from source resource metadata.	``
source_provider	category	Publishing organization.	HDX
source_dataset	category	Source package title.	Global - Subnational Population Statistics
source_resource	category	Source resource title.	cod_population_admin4.csv
source_package_id	category	CKAN package UUID.	27e3d1c6-c57a-4159-85a4-adb6b7aca6b9
source_resource_id	category	CKAN resource UUID.	11c76189-42fa-48d2-b794-b89517f0c811
source_url	category	Original source resource URL.	https://data.humdata.org/dataset/27e3d1c6-c57a-4159-85a4-adb6b7aca6b9/re
license_id	category	Source license identifier.	cc-by
retrieved_at	category	UTC retrieval timestamp.	2026-08-14T23:28:30Z

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-central-african-republic-global-subnational-population-statistics-2bdc2895")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

sample_country = df[df["country_iso3"] == "CAF"]

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_central_african_republic_global_subnational_population_statistics_2bdc289_2018,
  title        = {Global - Subnational Population Statistics | Africa (Central African Republic official open data)},
  author       = {HDX},
  year         = {2018},
  url          = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/cod-ps-global},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-central-african-republic-global-subnational-population-statistics-2bdc2895}}
}

License

Released under CC BY 4.0.

Original data (c) HDX. 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 2026-08-15 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://data.humdata.org/dataset/27e3d1c6-c57a-4159-85a4-adb6b7aca6b9/resource/11c76189-42fa-48d2-b794-b89517f0c811/download/cod_population_admin4.csv