electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritius-infant-deaths-by-selected-causes-for-island-of-mauritius-i-2838e340

Infant deaths by selected causes for Island of Mauritius & Island of Rodrigues, 2018 - 2024 | Africa (Mauritius official open data)

210 rows - 1 Africa country - 2018-2024 - Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

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

About the source

• Source: Infant deaths by selected causes for Island of Mauritius & Island of Rodrigues, 2018 - 2024
• Publisher: MDPA
• Resource: infant-deaths-by-selected-causes-2018-2024.csv
• License: CC BY 4.0
• Packaging mode: indicator_long

Geographic coverage

1 Africa country:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
MUS	210	2018	2024	Mauritius

Indicators or Resource Contents

• infant-deaths-by-selected-causes-for-island-of-mauritius-island-of-rodri-d4a1a3d6 - Infant deaths by selected causes for Island of Mauritius & Island of Rodrigues, 2018 - 2024

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
indicator_id	object	Stable indicator identifier.	infant-deaths-by-selected-causes-for-island-of-mauritius-island-of-rodri
indicator_name	object	Human-readable indicator name.	Infant deaths by selected causes for Island of Mauritius & Island of Rod
country_iso3	object	ISO3 country code.	MUS
country_name	object	Country name.	Mauritius
year	Int64	Observation year.	2018
value	float64	Numeric observation value.	0.0
unit	object	Measurement unit, when available.	source_units_unspecified
dimension_island	string	Source dimension.	Mauritius
dimension_selected_cause_of_death	string	Source dimension.	Diarrhoea and gastroenteritis of presumed infectious origin
source_provider	object	Publishing organization.	MDPA
source_dataset	object	Source package title.	Infant deaths by selected causes for Island of Mauritius & Island of Rod
source_resource	object	Source resource title.	infant-deaths-by-selected-causes-2018-2024.csv
source_package_id	object	CKAN package UUID.	ef5f8b7b-e976-41c0-b303-f3eb4f70d0d0
source_resource_id	object	CKAN resource UUID.	d81bc4e9-cbda-4bbe-b49c-878e0b4841ea
source_url	object	Original CSV URL.	https://data.govmu.org/dataset/ef5f8b7b-e976-41c0-b303-f3eb4f70d0d0/reso
license_id	object	Source license identifier.	cc-by
retrieved_at	object	UTC retrieval timestamp.	2026-07-16T19:23:24Z

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritius-infant-deaths-by-selected-causes-for-island-of-mauritius-i-2838e340")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

sample_country = df[df["country_iso3"] == "MUS"]

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_mauritius_infant_deaths_by_selected_causes_for_island_of_mauritius_i_2838_2024,
  title        = {Infant deaths by selected causes for Island of Mauritius & Island of Rodrigues, 2018 - 2024 | Africa (Mauritius official open data)},
  author       = {MDPA},
  year         = {2024},
  url          = {https://data.govmu.org/dataset/infant-deaths-by-selected-causes-for-island-of-mauritius-island-of-rodrigues-2018-2024},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritius-infant-deaths-by-selected-causes-for-island-of-mauritius-i-2838e340}}
}

License

Released under CC BY 4.0.

Original data (c) MDPA. 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 2026-07-16 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://data.govmu.org/dataset/ef5f8b7b-e976-41c0-b303-f3eb4f70d0d0/resource/d81bc4e9-cbda-4bbe-b49c-878e0b4841ea/download/infant-deaths-by-selected-causes-2018-2024.csv