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Mozambique	Maputo	2,020	MINEDH	false	1,999	19.2	24.9	70	24.9	17.59	3,101,844	16.3	48	sectoral	37.9	185	62.9	true	basic	low
Zambia	Lusaka	2,022	MLGH	true	2,009	12.9	9.1	47	9.1	8.93	4,886,914	8.2	17.4	ad_hoc	28.9	153	37.3	true	basic	none
Ghana	Accra	2,020	AMA	true	1,998	13.3	25.2	165	25.2	9.65	3,964,168	20.8	45.7	sectoral	39.2	178	54	false	advanced	low
South Africa	Johannesburg	2,020	City of Cape Town	false	2,017	16.8	19.4	58	19.4	6.75	1,635,811	14.3	24.1	sectoral	30.5	87	61.6	false	advanced	high
Tanzania	Dodoma	2,021	DAWASA	true	2,002	19.5	17.5	115	17.5	7.17	284,584	11.2	6.8	sectoral	28.9	169	60.6	true	none	medium
Mozambique	Beira	2,019	MINEDH	true	2,007	13.9	7.1	133	7.1	6.21	2,282,575	6.3	41.1	none	25.8	180	71.9	true	basic	none
Kenya	Mombasa	2,018	Nairobi County	true	2,014	14.9	20.6	68	20.6	6.22	537,916	18.4	9.4	sectoral	9.1	121	69.5	false	basic	none
Uganda	Wakiso	2,025	MoWLUD	true	2,000	16.4	16.8	28	16.8	7.11	4,791,534	12.9	45.8	none	33.8	169	75.2	true	advanced	low
Nigeria	Abuja	2,019	Lagos State	false	2,019	11.1	22.9	45	22.9	24.84	2,481,919	18.8	20.5	comprehensive	14.1	171	29.7	false	none	medium
Uganda	Wakiso	2,020	KCCA	true	1,997	35.2	13	123	13	19.01	225,258	8.3	42.4	ad_hoc	29	89	20.3	true	advanced	medium
Ethiopia	Dire Dawa	2,018	Regional Bureau	true	2,016	27.9	5.8	39	5.8	21.55	3,800,428	5	48.9	none	12.7	148	52.1	true	basic	high
Ethiopia	Dire Dawa	2,019	Addis Ababa City	false	2,017	33.8	8.8	159	8.8	12.77	904,359	6.7	13.8	ad_hoc	27.4	100	23.7	false	none	low
Nigeria	Ibadan	2,020	State MoP	false	2,018	21.4	12.4	107	12.4	9.85	1,494,431	8.3	10.9	comprehensive	6.6	121	65.1	true	none	medium
Uganda	Kampala	2,019	MoWLUD	true	1,997	28.7	9.7	144	9.7	17.49	3,984,891	7.3	25.3	comprehensive	14.7	137	41.5	false	basic	high
Morocco	Casablanca	2,024	Wilaya	true	1,998	14.9	9.6	90	9.6	7.82	4,956,421	7	24.9	none	6.8	161	46.8	true	advanced	medium
Egypt	Giza	2,018	Cairo Governorate	true	1,997	19.8	8	15	8	20.24	886,658	5.1	40.2	ad_hoc	16.1	94	67.9	false	none	medium
Ghana	Accra	2,018	AMA	true	2,017	29.1	21.9	16	21.9	2.92	4,220,191	15.2	22.1	sectoral	16.8	56	61	true	basic	none
Rwanda	Kigali	2,019	Kigali City	true	2,011	13.5	20.6	36	20.6	16.97	894,134	18.4	9.9	none	17.6	64	56	false	none	none
Mozambique	Maputo	2,018	Municipio	true	1,998	28.6	11.6	82	11.6	21.78	477,593	8.9	26.6	none	16.2	169	70.9	true	advanced	none
Rwanda	Rubavu	2,021	Kigali City	true	2,021	36.2	18.1	89	18.1	7.72	2,466,118	13.5	14.6	ad_hoc	23.8	171	23.1	true	none	low
Kenya	Nairobi	2,019	Nairobi County	true	2,015	24.7	15.4	87	15.4	8.15	1,360,872	9.4	35.5	comprehensive	29.7	130	48.7	false	none	high
South Africa	Durban	2,025	City of Johannesburg	true	2,020	8.1	19.2	173	19.2	7.7	283,649	13	48.7	none	28.4	166	69.8	false	basic	low
Egypt	Cairo	2,019	Giza Governorate	true	2,007	22.7	23	33	23	14.14	3,577,921	17	26.3	none	12.1	147	69.5	false	none	medium
Zambia	Kitwe	2,022	MLGH	true	2,020	20.9	17.1	18	17.1	24.83	4,416,909	12.4	12.1	comprehensive	21.3	164	40.4	false	advanced	medium
Ethiopia	Dire Dawa	2,021	Regional Bureau	false	2,011	20.5	14.2	17	14.2	15.27	305,599	11.1	15.6	none	5.3	196	28	true	none	medium
Tanzania	Dar es Salaam	2,018	MLHUD	true	1,996	30.2	11	96	11	3.08	2,094,341	9.9	29.6	none	11.1	11	74.4	false	advanced	medium
Ghana	Kumasi	2,020	MLGRD	false	2,005	29.9	17.3	118	17.3	15.52	2,653,787	12.2	40.1	sectoral	6.4	10	47.9	true	advanced	medium
Mozambique	Beira	2,023	Municipio	false	1,995	11.2	14.5	111	14.5	20.05	3,005,463	13.1	21.2	sectoral	30.1	196	48.1	true	advanced	none
Kenya	Mombasa	2,023	CMA	false	2,003	16	15.9	38	15.9	4.1	275,594	13	14	none	13.5	163	31.4	true	basic	high
Rwanda	Kigali	2,021	Kigali City	false	2,007	28.5	10.2	16	10.2	22.79	114,432	9.5	11.3	sectoral	35.2	182	71.5	true	none	none
South Africa	Durban	2,020	City of Cape Town	false	2,016	10.7	9.1	160	9.1	24.74	3,327,226	5.6	6.5	none	10.2	116	48.6	false	advanced	medium
Tanzania	Dar es Salaam	2,023	DAWASA	false	2,010	31.3	18.2	114	18.2	23.17	300,425	12.1	43	comprehensive	39.2	55	52.5	false	advanced	high
Rwanda	Rubavu	2,025	Kigali City	true	2,001	11.7	9.8	89	9.8	19.65	1,440,459	7.7	12.3	none	34.8	154	33.6	false	advanced	high
Morocco	Rabat	2,019	Wilaya	true	2,015	13.5	24	89	24	18.19	952,493	18.7	19	sectoral	21.6	126	61.3	true	basic	high
Uganda	Wakiso	2,024	KCCA	true	2,002	10.6	11.2	106	11.2	3.98	188,560	7.5	14.6	ad_hoc	28.3	156	40.4	false	basic	none
Uganda	Kampala	2,024	MoWLUD	false	2,005	16.8	20	19	20	2.03	820,903	18.4	6.2	comprehensive	5.5	34	45.2	false	basic	none
Zambia	Lusaka	2,023	MLGH	false	1,997	31	12	148	12	10.8	1,132,270	10.2	12	comprehensive	14.9	155	69.4	false	none	none
Uganda	Wakiso	2,025	KCCA	false	1,998	9.1	20	84	20	2.78	1,646,317	17.6	24	comprehensive	16.9	173	79.4	false	none	medium
Uganda	Wakiso	2,018	MoWLUD	false	1,999	30.7	7.3	87	7.3	10.84	965,334	5	24.7	none	28.8	1	39.2	false	basic	none
South Africa	Cape Town	2,025	City of Cape Town	true	2,018	28.9	9.5	40	9.5	19.52	2,051,987	8.9	21.8	sectoral	30.8	109	75.8	true	basic	high
Mozambique	Maputo	2,023	Municipio	true	2,014	20.5	19.8	34	19.8	20.61	1,054,292	18.5	48	ad_hoc	31.8	47	73.4	false	none	high
Uganda	Kampala	2,025	KCCA	true	2,014	32.3	17.3	29	17.3	18.2	3,387,948	11.8	5.1	none	22.7	105	49.7	true	none	high
Egypt	Alexandria	2,023	Giza Governorate	true	2,000	19.6	6.2	93	6.2	23.65	1,363,899	5.6	19.3	none	28.9	171	26.3	false	basic	none
Senegal	Thies	2,018	Maire	true	2,020	10.8	8.6	19	8.6	19.26	1,061,578	5.8	18.9	sectoral	16.8	23	52.7	false	none	none
Ghana	Kumasi	2,023	AMA	false	1,996	25.1	12.4	72	12.4	2.83	1,681,856	8.4	31.7	sectoral	6	36	79.2	true	advanced	low
Ethiopia	Dire Dawa	2,021	Regional Bureau	true	2,007	22.6	12.4	58	12.4	3.81	740,979	9.1	41	none	35.5	73	66	false	advanced	none
Ethiopia	Addis Ababa	2,020	Regional Bureau	false	1,995	28.3	12.4	172	12.4	14.01	4,798,979	9.8	30.1	ad_hoc	31.5	145	32.4	false	basic	none
Tanzania	Dodoma	2,018	MLHUD	true	1,997	28.2	15.6	78	15.6	17.19	1,256,278	10.4	45.3	comprehensive	30.8	12	49.4	false	basic	high
Zambia	Lusaka	2,020	Lusaka City	true	2,003	17.8	5.8	56	5.8	5.31	3,886,053	5	38.3	sectoral	12.9	111	59.7	false	none	low
Ghana	Kumasi	2,021	MLGRD	true	2,015	32.7	18.7	81	18.7	9.12	2,919,508	13.1	24	comprehensive	26.4	195	30.5	false	advanced	low
Ethiopia	Addis Ababa	2,025	Addis Ababa City	false	2,017	27.6	7.5	150	7.5	10.37	718,104	7	35.8	ad_hoc	12	100	50.4	false	basic	medium
Morocco	Rabat	2,024	Wilaya	true	1,998	30.1	5.8	126	5.8	13.4	1,946,197	5.4	31.7	sectoral	5.9	83	79.6	false	basic	medium
Algeria	Oran	2,025	Direction Urbanisme	false	1,998	33.3	13.2	165	13.2	6.1	1,364,972	11.1	15.5	comprehensive	6.9	9	37.7	false	none	medium
Tanzania	Dodoma	2,025	DAWASA	true	1,997	10.7	6.5	82	6.5	15.13	4,810,065	5	31.9	comprehensive	29.2	159	27.8	false	none	medium
Zambia	Lusaka	2,018	MLGH	false	2,008	25.4	14.5	90	14.5	22.9	4,710,559	10.7	13.5	ad_hoc	20.9	72	21.5	false	advanced	medium
Mozambique	Beira	2,023	Municipio	false	2,000	13.1	16.8	71	16.8	18.43	1,298,989	11.6	44.3	ad_hoc	14.8	166	76.8	true	none	medium
Malawi	Lilongwe	2,019	Blantyre City	true	2,006	8.9	20.2	104	20.2	10.78	4,284,864	14.1	34	none	12.3	80	48.5	false	advanced	medium
Malawi	Blantyre	2,021	Blantyre City	true	1,996	8.9	6.9	33	6.9	5.9	2,873,295	6.3	30.8	none	18.4	23	21	false	advanced	medium
Morocco	Rabat	2,023	Wilaya	false	2,020	19.8	11.8	70	11.8	13.54	2,710,810	9.4	36	sectoral	15.2	149	45	true	none	none
Morocco	Casablanca	2,019	Wilaya	true	2,003	21	6	150	6	10.71	3,996,574	5.3	6.2	ad_hoc	36.3	70	62.7	true	none	medium
Morocco	Casablanca	2,019	Urban Agency	true	2,014	8	13	121	13	9.84	434,921	7.9	43.1	ad_hoc	5.5	40	63.6	true	none	low
Egypt	Giza	2,022	Giza Governorate	true	2,018	27.3	21.6	52	21.6	24.48	4,247,609	17.8	7.1	sectoral	28.9	2	37.7	false	advanced	none
Malawi	Lilongwe	2,024	Blantyre City	true	1,998	15.8	23.5	137	23.5	24.83	2,126,431	15.6	34.9	sectoral	39.5	35	70	true	none	low
Algeria	Algiers	2,021	Direction Urbanisme	true	2,003	14.1	17.3	14	17.3	23.95	4,097,322	11	19	ad_hoc	36.6	108	24.5	true	advanced	medium
Ethiopia	Dire Dawa	2,025	Regional Bureau	true	2,003	24.3	16.8	17	16.8	10.71	1,501,793	10.7	25.9	none	16.8	9	21.9	false	advanced	low
South Africa	Cape Town	2,025	City of Johannesburg	true	2,000	34.2	9.4	148	9.4	8.05	1,895,161	7	40.4	sectoral	30.4	25	63.9	false	none	medium
Morocco	Casablanca	2,019	Urban Agency	true	1,996	12.7	22.8	141	22.8	23.14	3,732,688	18.2	11.8	comprehensive	35.2	177	63	false	basic	low
Nigeria	Ibadan	2,023	State MoP	true	2,014	23.5	13	76	13	5.04	1,751,587	9.6	33.2	none	32.5	81	47.6	false	advanced	high
Mozambique	Beira	2,020	Municipio	false	2,021	26.8	21.7	116	21.7	3.48	2,284,978	15.6	23.5	sectoral	12.2	175	27.7	false	basic	high
Malawi	Blantyre	2,019	Blantyre City	true	2,020	27.6	14	169	14	6.88	2,963,816	11.6	35.6	sectoral	8.6	79	75.6	false	none	low
Rwanda	Rubavu	2,020	Kigali City	false	2,000	29.6	10.3	141	10.3	7.86	3,483,426	7.9	25.5	ad_hoc	8.5	126	46.8	true	advanced	none
Kenya	Mombasa	2,018	Nairobi County	false	2,016	10.9	13.9	92	13.9	14.04	831,085	10.2	14	sectoral	25.8	127	47.1	true	none	medium
Malawi	Blantyre	2,024	MoHUD	true	2,005	14.3	15.4	134	15.4	15.6	1,568,992	10.2	44.7	sectoral	23.9	117	50	false	none	medium
Morocco	Casablanca	2,020	Urban Agency	true	2,008	22.5	25.4	152	25.4	24.29	2,026,325	19.7	39.3	ad_hoc	38.6	180	73.2	false	basic	none
Morocco	Rabat	2,023	Wilaya	true	2,021	25.1	21.7	164	21.7	7.06	3,172,184	19.9	17.3	sectoral	35.6	83	58.4	false	advanced	medium
Malawi	Blantyre	2,025	Blantyre City	true	2,015	11.5	15.6	154	15.6	14.63	4,248,301	12.2	44.1	comprehensive	6.2	137	66.4	false	basic	medium
Rwanda	Rubavu	2,022	Kigali City	false	2,004	23	25.3	41	25.3	8.68	4,587,754	22.1	40.6	sectoral	11.4	92	60.9	false	none	none
Ethiopia	Dire Dawa	2,021	Addis Ababa City	true	2,017	26.7	11.5	115	11.5	23.43	3,392,967	8.1	16.5	ad_hoc	10.2	121	64	true	advanced	low
Morocco	Rabat	2,018	Urban Agency	true	2,011	36.8	24.9	18	24.9	13.29	2,765,529	18.5	43.2	comprehensive	25.7	28	37.4	true	none	low
Kenya	Kisumu	2,021	Mombasa County	false	2,014	16.9	8.1	168	8.1	19.83	1,140,715	6.2	33.5	comprehensive	34.6	70	51.7	true	none	low
Tanzania	Dar es Salaam	2,024	DAWASA	true	1,996	23.2	11.9	37	11.9	4.63	4,429,994	8.6	28.5	comprehensive	15	8	56.4	false	advanced	low
Senegal	Dakar	2,018	Maire	true	2,019	18.8	25.1	161	25.1	10.26	4,804,130	17.2	37	comprehensive	26.3	133	23.7	false	basic	medium
Malawi	Lilongwe	2,022	MoHUD	false	2,019	14.8	8.8	59	8.8	24.22	3,860,073	7.9	39.4	ad_hoc	8.1	168	33	false	none	high
Ghana	Accra	2,022	AMA	false	2,015	10	15.9	122	15.9	23.82	4,285,993	10.9	33.3	comprehensive	8.4	27	54.9	true	none	none
Algeria	Oran	2,020	Direction Urbanisme	true	2,021	33.8	17.9	98	17.9	2.44	2,374,786	14.1	12.2	ad_hoc	35.2	2	59.6	true	none	high
Senegal	Thies	2,018	Dakar Municipality	false	1,997	31.1	24.9	95	24.9	19.59	3,183,109	18.2	33.2	comprehensive	34.8	10	26.2	false	basic	medium
Malawi	Lilongwe	2,020	MoHUD	true	2,019	24.4	20.5	25	20.5	21.13	240,658	14.5	48	ad_hoc	29.2	194	28.7	false	none	high
Rwanda	Rubavu	2,024	Kigali City	true	2,016	34	22	50	22	20.07	524,321	17.9	7.2	comprehensive	29.1	157	78	true	none	none
Ethiopia	Addis Ababa	2,023	Regional Bureau	true	1,996	30.2	13.2	160	13.2	5.29	3,856,520	9.8	42.8	ad_hoc	39.8	131	75	false	basic	high
Malawi	Blantyre	2,022	Blantyre City	true	2,020	18.1	19.6	141	19.6	11.43	690,173	12	29.1	ad_hoc	37.7	129	25.9	false	basic	medium
South Africa	Johannesburg	2,025	City of Johannesburg	true	2,014	30.1	22.4	166	22.4	18.55	1,856,739	17.5	22.7	sectoral	38	195	41.4	false	none	high
Nigeria	Kano	2,019	Lagos State	true	2,014	10.1	14.8	61	14.8	22.65	2,470,551	9.5	37	none	16	111	44.9	false	advanced	medium
South Africa	Durban	2,022	City of Johannesburg	true	2,014	10.4	9.9	48	9.9	14.99	2,677,725	9.4	19.5	sectoral	30.5	126	24	false	advanced	none
Malawi	Blantyre	2,025	MoHUD	true	2,021	26.2	20.8	51	20.8	13.62	1,803,437	19.7	24.9	ad_hoc	18.7	22	63.6	false	advanced	high
South Africa	Cape Town	2,025	City of Cape Town	true	2,018	36.3	25.4	129	25.4	12.4	1,929,731	19.8	42.7	sectoral	35.9	190	24	true	advanced	low
Senegal	Thies	2,019	Maire	false	2,020	33.3	10	65	10	4.32	1,985,456	6.4	22.6	none	39	63	36.4	true	basic	high
Rwanda	Rubavu	2,019	RHA	true	2,006	14.5	5.8	124	5.8	10.87	2,417,211	5	23.3	ad_hoc	31	113	68.2	false	none	none
Nigeria	Lagos	2,018	State MoP	false	2,013	7	17.6	39	17.6	24.7	4,410,389	16.7	39.1	comprehensive	32.1	99	69.4	false	basic	high
Morocco	Casablanca	2,022	Urban Agency	false	2,016	26.4	13.2	103	13.2	7.44	3,081,059	9.3	42.6	ad_hoc	27.4	166	33.8	false	none	medium
Kenya	Mombasa	2,021	CMA	true	2,019	10.5	21.5	158	21.5	15.35	2,414,201	17.7	11.8	sectoral	9.9	105	30.2	true	none	none

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Africa Synth Urbanization Urban Planning Capacity Africa All | Africa (Electric Sheep Africa metadata inventory)

Size category: 10K<n<100K - Formats: csv - Sector: infrastructure_transport - Engineered by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset is part of the Electric Sheep Africa catalog on Hugging Face. It is indexed for African data discovery with standardized metadata, loading guidance, provenance notes, and analyst-oriented context.

What This Dataset Covers

Public datasets help analysts inspect structured evidence, build reproducible workflows, and compare patterns across domains.

Dataset context from the existing Hugging Face card: ⚠️ Synthetic dataset — Parameterized from published SSA literature, not real observations. Not suitable for empirical analysis or policy inference.

Dataset Profile

Field	Value
Hugging Face repo	`electricsheepafrica/africa-synth-urbanization-urban-planning-capacity-africa-all`
Sector	infrastructure_transport
Topic tags	housing, urbanization, synthetic-data, sub-saharan-africa, urban-planning, governance, synthetic
Modalities	`tabular`, `text`
Formats	`csv`
Size category	`10K<n<100K`
Countries	Africa-wide or source-defined African coverage
ISO3 coverage	`not declared`
Last modified on HF	`2026-04-14 22:54:12+00:00`
Inventory snapshot	`2026-07-16T16:00:34Z`

How To Read This Dataset

Start from the repository files and the dataset viewer when available.
Treat the README context as a fast orientation layer; confirm variable definitions and units in the data files before modeling.
Use explicit country columns when present. When geography is only implied by the title or source metadata, document that assumption in downstream analysis.
Preserve missing values until you have a defensible imputation rule.

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-synth-urbanization-urban-planning-capacity-africa-all")
print(ds)

split_name = next(iter(ds))
table = ds[split_name]
print(table.features)
print(table[:3])

Convert To Pandas When Tabular

from datasets import Dataset

first_split = ds[next(iter(ds))]
if isinstance(first_split, Dataset):
    df = first_split.to_pandas()
    print(df.head())

Data Quality Notes

This card was standardized from the Electric Sheep Africa Hugging Face metadata inventory.
Exact schema, row counts, and source files should be inspected in the repository data files.
Metadata gaps from the inventory: country, upstream_publisher.
Do not infer policy meaning from labels alone; confirm definitions, units, and methods in the source material.

Source And Provenance

Source context: Electric Sheep Africa metadata inventory
Publisher/source attribution: Public dataset metadata
License: CC BY 4.0
Hugging Face URL: https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-synth-urbanization-urban-planning-capacity-africa-all
Inventory retrieved at: 2026-07-16T16:00:34Z

Suggested Analyses

Inspect schema and missingness before modeling.
Profile variables by geography, time, and subgroup columns where present.
Join with other Electric Sheep Africa datasets using explicit country, year, and indicator fields when available.
Build reproducible notebooks that cite both the original source context and the Electric Sheep Africa Hugging Face repo.

Citation

@misc{electric_sheep_africa_africa_synth_urbanization_urban_planning_capacity_africa_all_2026,
  title        = {Africa Synth Urbanization Urban Planning Capacity Africa All | Africa (Electric Sheep Africa metadata inventory)},
  author       = {Public dataset metadata},
  year         = {2026},
  url          = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-synth-urbanization-urban-planning-capacity-africa-all},
  publisher    = {Hugging Face Datasets, engineered by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-synth-urbanization-urban-planning-capacity-africa-all}}
}

License

Released under CC BY 4.0.

Original source rights remain with the original publisher or data provider. Electric Sheep Africa engineering standardizes discovery metadata, documentation, and usage guidance for analysis on Hugging Face.

About Electric Sheep Africa

Electric Sheep Africa publishes ML-ready African public datasets on Hugging Face.

Provenance: metadata-backed README standardized 2026-08-12 by the Electric Sheep Africa README system. Inventory source: catalog/esa_metadata_inventory/master_metadata.jsonl.

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