electricsheepafrica/africa-uganda-postal-statistics-2014-2024-2a2a4dba

Postal Statistics, 2014-2024 | Africa (Uganda official open data)

146 rows - 1 Africa country - 2014-2024 - Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset packages one official XLSX resource from Uganda 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: Postal Statistics, 2014-2024
• Publisher: Uganda Bureau of Statistics
• Resource: Postal Statistics, 2014-2024
• Format: XLSX
• License: Other open license
• Packaging mode: indicator_long

Geographic coverage

1 Africa country:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
UGA	146	2014	2024	Uganda

Indicators or Resource Contents

• postal-statistics-2014-2024-2a2a4dba - Postal Statistics, 2014-2024

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
indicator_id	string	Stable indicator identifier.	postal-statistics-2014-2024-2a2a4dba
indicator_name	string	Human-readable indicator name.	Postal Statistics, 2014-2024
country_iso3	string	ISO3 country code.	UGA
source_sheet	string	Workbook sheet name, when the source is a spreadsheet.	POSTAL
country_name	string	Country name.	Uganda
year	Int64	Observation year.	2014
value	float64	Numeric observation value.	154.0
unit	string	Measurement unit, when available.	source_units_unspecified
dimension_item	string	Source dimension.	Distribution of permanent post offices
dimension_change	string	Source dimension.	0
source_period_start_year	Int64	First year inferred from source resource metadata.	2014
source_period_end_year	Int64	Last year inferred from source resource metadata.	2025
source_period_label	string	Human-readable period inferred from source resource metadata.	2014-2025
source_provider	string	Publishing organization.	Uganda Bureau of Statistics
source_dataset	string	Source package title.	Postal Statistics, 2014-2024
source_resource	string	Source resource title.	Postal Statistics, 2014-2024
source_package_id	string	CKAN package UUID.	postal-statistics-2014-2024-ubos-stat-0a8fa95b080e08
source_resource_id	string	CKAN resource UUID.	ubos-stat-0a8fa95b080e08
source_url	string	Original source resource URL.	https://www.ubos.org/wp-content/uploads/statistics/Postal-And-Courier-Se
license_id	string	Source license identifier.	other-open
retrieved_at	string	UTC retrieval timestamp.	2026-07-21T21:37:51Z

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-uganda-postal-statistics-2014-2024-2a2a4dba")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

sample_country = df[df["country_iso3"] == "UGA"]

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_uganda_postal_statistics_2014_2024_2a2a4dba_2024,
  title        = {Postal Statistics, 2014-2024 | Africa (Uganda official open data)},
  author       = {Uganda Bureau of Statistics},
  year         = {2024},
  url          = {https://www.ubos.org/explore-statistics/0/},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-uganda-postal-statistics-2014-2024-2a2a4dba}}
}

License

Released under Other open license.

Original data (c) Uganda Bureau of Statistics. 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 2026-07-21 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://www.ubos.org/wp-content/uploads/statistics/Postal-And-Courier-Services-Statistics-2014-2024.xlsx