electricsheepafrica/africa-zambia-copper-production-1960-1993-48664054

Copper Production 1960-1993 | Africa (Zambia official open data)

58 rows - 1 Africa country - 1960-1969 - Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset packages one official XLSX resource from Zambia 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: Copper Production 1960-1993
• Publisher: Zambia Statistics Agency
• Resource: Copper Production 1960-1993
• Format: XLSX
• License: Other open license
• Packaging mode: indicator_long

Geographic coverage

1 Africa country:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
ZMB	58	1960	1969	Zambia

Indicators or Resource Contents

• copper-production-1960-1993-48664054 - Copper Production 1960-1993

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
indicator_id	string	Stable indicator identifier.	copper-production-1960-1993-48664054
indicator_name	string	Human-readable indicator name.	Copper Production 1960-1993
country_iso3	string	ISO3 country code.	ZMB
source_sheet	string	Workbook sheet name, when the source is a spreadsheet.	1960-1993 Copper Production
country_name	string	Country name.	Zambia
year	Int64	Observation year.	1960
value	float64	Numeric observation value.	442.3
unit	string	Measurement unit, when available.	source_units_unspecified
dimension_period	string	Source dimension.	Copper Cathodes production('000 tonnes)
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.	2023
source_period_label	string	Human-readable period inferred from source resource metadata.	1960-2023
source_provider	string	Publishing organization.	Zambia Statistics Agency
source_dataset	string	Source package title.	Copper Production 1960-1993
source_resource	string	Source resource title.	Copper Production 1960-1993
source_package_id	string	CKAN package UUID.	copper-production-1960-1993-zamstats-media-523a6986db4d5e
source_resource_id	string	CKAN resource UUID.	zamstats-media-523a6986db4d5e
source_url	string	Original source resource URL.	https://www.zamstats.gov.zm/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Copper-Production
license_id	string	Source license identifier.	other-open
retrieved_at	string	UTC retrieval timestamp.	2026-07-22T09:43:48Z

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-zambia-copper-production-1960-1993-48664054")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

sample_country = df[df["country_iso3"] == "ZMB"]

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_zambia_copper_production_1960_1993_48664054_1969,
  title        = {Copper Production 1960-1993 | Africa (Zambia official open data)},
  author       = {Zambia Statistics Agency},
  year         = {1969},
  url          = {https://www.zamstats.gov.zm/copper-production-1960-1993/},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-zambia-copper-production-1960-1993-48664054}}
}

License

Released under Other open license.

Original data (c) Zambia Statistics Agency. 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 2026-07-22 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://www.zamstats.gov.zm/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Copper-Production-1960-1993.xlsx