electricsheepafrica/africa-niger-afdb-socio-economic-database-1960-2019-e4ecd570

AfDB Socio Economic Database, 1960-2019 | Africa (Niger official open data)

49,492 rows - 1 Africa country - 1960-2019 - Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset packages one official CSV resource from Niger 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: AfDB Socio Economic Database, 1960-2019
• Publisher: African Development Bank Group (inactive)
• Resource: AFDB Socio Economic Database, 1960-2019-ggotmbd.zip
• Format: CSV
• License: CC BY 4.0
• Packaging mode: tabular_resource

Geographic coverage

1 Africa country:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
NER	49,492	1960	2019	Niger

Indicators or Resource Contents

• This source file is packaged as a normalized tabular resource.

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
source_record_id	string	Stable row identifier for tabular resources.	280b1991-bb4a-4991-934a-d7470fb28026:0
country_iso3	category	ISO3 country code.	NER
country_name	category	Country name.	Niger
pk_h_liib_k_country_csv	string	Source column.	çæ÷¯ ófQ-áŽÌgÁfîÍHxÅ: n Eá53»ٝ·:†«¯î Ú(\DëzK‡ÅÞÊa“qñšõþµq“(öá«ý
source_period_start_year	Int64	First year inferred from source resource metadata.	1960
source_period_end_year	Int64	Last year inferred from source resource metadata.	2019
source_period_label	category	Human-readable period inferred from source resource metadata.	1960-2019
source_provider	category	Publishing organization.	African Development Bank Group (inactive)
source_dataset	category	Source package title.	AfDB Socio Economic Database, 1960-2019
source_resource	category	Source resource title.	AFDB Socio Economic Database, 1960-2019-ggotmbd.zip
source_package_id	category	CKAN package UUID.	2136432f-4932-47ad-a87a-5d3996647c4b
source_resource_id	category	CKAN resource UUID.	280b1991-bb4a-4991-934a-d7470fb28026
source_url	category	Original source resource URL.	https://data.humdata.org/dataset/2136432f-4932-47ad-a87a-5d3996647c4b/re
license_id	category	Source license identifier.	cc-by
retrieved_at	category	UTC retrieval timestamp.	2026-08-14T00:35:21Z

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-niger-afdb-socio-economic-database-1960-2019-e4ecd570")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

sample_country = df[df["country_iso3"] == "NER"]

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_niger_afdb_socio_economic_database_1960_2019_e4ecd570_2019,
  title        = {AfDB Socio Economic Database, 1960-2019 | Africa (Niger official open data)},
  author       = {African Development Bank Group (inactive)},
  year         = {2019},
  url          = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/afdb-socio-economic-database-1960-2019},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-niger-afdb-socio-economic-database-1960-2019-e4ecd570}}
}

License

Released under CC BY 4.0.

Original data (c) African Development Bank Group (inactive). 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 2026-08-14 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://data.humdata.org/dataset/2136432f-4932-47ad-a87a-5d3996647c4b/resource/280b1991-bb4a-4991-934a-d7470fb28026/download/afdb-socio-economic-database-1960-2019-ggotmbd.zip