electricsheepafrica/africa-daily-cross-border-trade-for-somalia-6824

Somalia Daily FEWS NET Cross Border Trade Data

Publisher: FEWS NET · Source: HDX · License: cc-by · Updated: 2026-04-01

---

Abstract

Somalia Daily cross border trade data collected by FEWS NET since 2010.

Each row in this dataset represents first-level administrative unit observations. Temporal coverage is indicated by the start_date, period_date column(s). Geographic scope: SOM.

Curated into ML-ready Parquet format by Electric Sheep Africa.

---

Dataset Characteristics

Domain	Humanitarian and development data
Unit of observation	First-level administrative unit observations
Rows (total)	20,162
Columns	41 (8 numeric, 31 categorical, 2 datetime)
Train split	16,129 rows
Test split	4,032 rows
Geographic scope	SOM
Publisher	FEWS NET
HDX last updated	2026-04-01

---

Variables

Geographic — reporting_country (Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia), reporting_country_code (SO, DJ, ET), source_country_code (SO, ET, KE), destination_country_code (SO, ET, KE), flow_type and 11 others.

Temporal — start_date, period_date, value_one_month_ago (range 0.0–243775.0), pct_change_from_one_month_ago (range -99.9889–163900.0).

Outcome / Measurement — value (range 0.0–1055350.0).

Identifier / Metadata — source (Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya), indicator_name (TradeFlowQuantity), source_organization, source_document, dataseries_name and 4 others.

Other — border_point (Belet Hawo, Togwajale, Doblei), destination (Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya), cpcv2 (P23161AA, P23520AA, P23110AA), product (Rice (Milled), Refined sugar, Wheat Flour), collection_status and 6 others.

---

Quick Start

from datasets import load_dataset

ds    = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-daily-cross-border-trade-for-somalia-6824")
train = ds["train"].to_pandas()
test  = ds["test"].to_pandas()

print(train.shape)
train.head()

---

Schema

Column	Type	Null %	Range / Sample Values
reporting_country	object	0.0%	Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia
reporting_country_code	object	0.0%	SO, DJ, ET
border_point	object	0.0%	Belet Hawo, Togwajale, Doblei
source	object	0.0%	Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya
source_country_code	object	0.0%	SO, ET, KE
destination	object	0.0%	Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya
destination_country_code	object	0.0%	SO, ET, KE
cpcv2	object	0.0%	P23161AA, P23520AA, P23110AA
product	object	0.0%	Rice (Milled), Refined sugar, Wheat Flour
indicator_name	object	0.0%	TradeFlowQuantity
start_date	datetime64[ns]	0.0%
period_date	datetime64[ns]	0.0%
value	float64	0.0%	0.0 – 1055350.0 (mean 3487.8287)
flow_type	object	0.0%
trade_type	object	0.0%
collection_status	object	0.0%
source_organization	object	0.0%
source_document	object	0.0%
dataseries_name	object	0.0%
dataseries	int64	0.0%	6544487.0 – 7402473.0 (mean 6638238.266)
unit	object	0.0%
unit_type	object	0.0%
unit_name	object	0.0%
status	object	0.0%
common_unit	object	0.0%
common_unit_quantity	float64	0.0%	0.0 – 384000000.0 (mean 256209.9127)
reporting_country_geographic_group	object	0.0%
reporting_country_fewsnet_region	object	0.0%
source_geographic_group	object	0.0%
source_fewsnet_region	object	0.0%
destination_geographic_group	object	0.0%
destination_fewsnet_region	object	0.1%
value_one_month_ago	float64	60.7%	0.0 – 243775.0 (mean 2154.2918)
value_one_year_ago	float64	72.8%	0.6333 – 263837.5 (mean 2152.5757)
value_two_years_ago	float64	79.2%	0.6333 – 237172.5 (mean 2065.9255)
pct_change_from_one_month_ago	float64	60.7%	-99.9889 – 163900.0 (mean 489.9373)
pct_change_from_one_year_ago	float64	72.8%	-99.9444 – 276500.0 (mean 677.3956)
collection_schedule	object	0.0%
data_usage_policy	object	0.0%
esa_source	object	0.0%
esa_processed	object	0.0%

---

Numeric Summary

Column	Min	Max	Mean	Median
value	0.0	1055350.0	3487.8287	2.9
dataseries	6544487.0	7402473.0	6638238.266	6614084.0
common_unit_quantity	0.0	384000000.0	256209.9127	10.0
value_one_month_ago	0.0	243775.0	2154.2918	972.0
value_one_year_ago	0.6333	263837.5	2152.5757	1125.0
value_two_years_ago	0.6333	237172.5	2065.9255	1203.75
pct_change_from_one_month_ago	-99.9889	163900.0	489.9373	274.2455
pct_change_from_one_year_ago	-99.9444	276500.0	677.3956	293.2203

---

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. 7 column(s) with >80% missing values were removed: id, value_three_years_ago, value_four_years_ago, value_five_years_ago, two_year_average, five_year_average.... 2 column(s) were cast from string to numeric or datetime based on parse-success rate (>85% threshold). The dataset was split 80/20 into train and test partitions using a fixed random seed (42) and saved as Snappy-compressed Parquet.

---

Limitations

• Data originates from FEWS NET and has not been independently validated by ESA.
• Automated cleaning cannot correct for misreported values, definitional inconsistencies, or sampling bias in the original collection.
• The following columns have >20% missing values and should be treated with caution in modelling: value_one_month_ago, value_one_year_ago, value_two_years_ago, pct_change_from_one_month_ago, pct_change_from_one_year_ago.
• Refer to the original HDX dataset page for the publisher's own methodology notes and caveats.

---

Citation

@dataset{hdx_africa_daily_cross_border_trade_for_somalia_6824,
  title     = {Somalia Daily FEWS NET Cross Border Trade Data},
  author    = {FEWS NET},
  year      = {2026},
  url       = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/daily_cross_border_trade_for_somalia_6824},
  note      = {Repackaged for machine learning by Electric Sheep Africa (https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica)}
}

---

Electric Sheep Africa — Africa's ML dataset infrastructure. Lagos, Nigeria.