electricsheepafrica/africa-wfp-hungermap-data-for-cmr

Cameroon - HungerMap data

Publisher: WFP - World Food Programme · Source: HDX · License: cc-by-sa · Updated: 2026-04-06

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Abstract

HungerMapLIVE is the World Food Programme (WFP)’s global hunger monitoring system. It combines key metrics from various data sources – such as food security information, weather, population size, conflict, hazards, nutrition information and macro-economic data – to help assess, monitor and predict the magnitude and severity of hunger in near real-time. The resulting analysis is displayed on an interactive map that helps WFP staff, key decision makers and the broader humanitarian community to make more informed and timely decisions relating to food security.

The platform covers 94 countries, including countries where WFP has operations as well as most lower and lower-middle income countries (as classified by the World Bank).

Each row in this dataset represents country-level aggregates. Temporal coverage is indicated by the date column(s). Geographic scope: CMR.

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

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Dataset Characteristics

Domain	Food security and nutrition
Unit of observation	Country-level aggregates
Rows (total)	2,003
Columns	13 (5 numeric, 7 categorical, 1 datetime)
Train split	1,602 rows
Test split	400 rows
Geographic scope	CMR
Publisher	WFP - World Food Programme
HDX last updated	2026-04-06

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Variables

Geographic — countrycode (CMR), countryname (Cameroon), adminone (Adamaoua, Centre, Est), adminlevel (subnational, national), population (range 797019.0–4672234.0) and 1 others.

Temporal — date.

Identifier / Metadata — esa_source (HDX), esa_processed (2026-04-08).

Other — fcs_people (range 66962.0–7707093.0), fcs_prevalence (range 0.084–0.6101), rcsi_people (range 91649.0–9892533.0), rcsi_prevalence (range 0.115–0.6209).

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Quick Start

from datasets import load_dataset

ds    = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-wfp-hungermap-data-for-cmr")
train = ds["train"].to_pandas()
test  = ds["test"].to_pandas()

print(train.shape)
train.head()

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Schema

Column	Type	Null %	Range / Sample Values
countrycode	object	0.0%	CMR
countryname	object	0.0%	Cameroon
adminone	object	9.1%	Adamaoua, Centre, Est
adminlevel	object	0.0%	subnational, national
population	float64	9.1%	797019.0 – 4672234.0 (mean 2521623.2)
date	datetime64[ns]	0.0%
datatype	object	0.0%	SURVEY
fcs_people	int64	0.0%	66962.0 – 7707093.0 (mean 1244813.3924)
fcs_prevalence	float64	0.0%	0.084 – 0.6101 (mean 0.2801)
rcsi_people	int64	0.0%	91649.0 – 9892533.0 (mean 1383778.6196)
rcsi_prevalence	float64	0.0%	0.115 – 0.6209 (mean 0.307)
esa_source	object	0.0%	HDX
esa_processed	object	0.0%	2026-04-08

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Numeric Summary

Column	Min	Max	Mean	Median
population	797019.0	4672234.0	2521623.2	2144325.0
fcs_people	66962.0	7707093.0	1244813.3924	757590.0
fcs_prevalence	0.084	0.6101	0.2801	0.2544
rcsi_people	91649.0	9892533.0	1383778.6196	844383.0
rcsi_prevalence	0.115	0.6209	0.307	0.2787

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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. 4 column(s) with >80% missing values were removed: health_access_people, health_access_prevalence, market_access_people, market_access_prevalence. 1 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.

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Limitations

• Data originates from WFP - World Food Programme and has not been independently validated by ESA.
• Automated cleaning cannot correct for misreported values, definitional inconsistencies, or sampling bias in the original collection.
• Refer to the original HDX dataset page for the publisher's own methodology notes and caveats.

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Citation

@dataset{hdx_africa_wfp_hungermap_data_for_cmr,
  title     = {Cameroon - HungerMap data},
  author    = {WFP - World Food Programme},
  year      = {2026},
  url       = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/wfp-hungermap-data-for-cmr},
  note      = {Repackaged for machine learning by Electric Sheep Africa (https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica)}
}

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