electricsheepasia/asia-population-emdat-country-profiles-syria

EM-DAT - Country Profiles, Syrian Arab Republic

Publisher: Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters · Source: HDX · License: hdx-other · Updated: 2026-05-02

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Abstract

Aggregated figures for natural hazard related events in EM-DAT: Syrian Arab Republic

Documentation on the Country Profiles available here

How to cite the EM-DAT Project here

Main dataset on HDX: EM-DAT - Country Profiles

More on the EM-DAT database : website / data portal

Each line corresponds to a given combination of year, country, disaster subtype and reports figures for :

• number of disasters
• total number of people affected
• total number of deaths
• economic losses (original value and adjusted)

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Each row in this dataset represents country-level aggregates. Data was last updated on HDX on 2026-05-02. Geographic scope: SYR.

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

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Dataset Characteristics

Domain	Demographics and population
Unit of observation	Country-level aggregates
Rows (total)	23
Columns	13 (5 numeric, 8 categorical, 0 datetime)
Train split	18 rows
Test split	4 rows
Geographic scope	SYR
Publisher	Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters
HDX last updated	2026-05-02

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Variables

Geographic — year (range 2001.0–2026.0), country (Syrian Arab Republic, #country +name), iso (SYR, #country +code), disaster_type (Storm, Flood, Drought), disaster_subtype (Flood (General), Blizzard/Winter storm, Drought).

Outcome / Measurement — total_events (range 1.0–3.0), total_affected (range 23.0–16200000.0), total_deaths (range 1.0–5670.0).

Identifier / Metadata — esa_source (HDX), esa_processed (2026-05-06).

Other — disaster_group (Natural, #cause +group), disaster_subroup (Climatological, Hydrological, Meteorological), cpi (range 56.4466–100.0).

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Quick Start

from datasets import load_dataset

ds    = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/asia-population-emdat-country-profiles-syria")
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
year	float64	4.3%	2001.0 – 2026.0 (mean 2017.9545)
country	object	0.0%	Syrian Arab Republic, #country +name
iso	object	0.0%	SYR, #country +code
disaster_group	object	0.0%	Natural, #cause +group
disaster_subroup	object	0.0%	Climatological, Hydrological, Meteorological
disaster_type	object	0.0%	Storm, Flood, Drought
disaster_subtype	object	0.0%	Flood (General), Blizzard/Winter storm, Drought
total_events	float64	4.3%	1.0 – 3.0 (mean 1.0909)
total_affected	float64	13.0%	23.0 – 16200000.0 (mean 1642095.6)
total_deaths	float64	43.5%	1.0 – 5670.0 (mean 447.2308)
cpi	float64	21.7%	56.4466 – 100.0 (mean 82.0346)
esa_source	object	0.0%	HDX
esa_processed	object	0.0%	2026-05-06

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Numeric Summary

Column	Min	Max	Mean	Median
year	2001.0	2026.0	2017.9545	2021.5
total_events	1.0	3.0	1.0909	1.0
total_affected	23.0	16200000.0	1642095.6	97539.5
total_deaths	1.0	5670.0	447.2308	4.0
cpi	56.4466	100.0	82.0346	84.4437

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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. 2 column(s) with >80% missing values were removed: total_damage_usd_original, total_damage_usd_adjusted. 4 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 Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters and has not been independently validated by ESA.
• Automated cleaning cannot correct for misreported values, definitional inconsistencies, or sampling bias in the original collection.
• The following columns have >20% missing values and should be treated with caution in modelling: total_deaths, cpi.
• Refer to the original HDX dataset page for the publisher's own methodology notes and caveats.

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Citation

@dataset{hdx_asia_population_emdat_country_profiles_syria,
  title     = {EM-DAT - Country Profiles, Syrian Arab Republic},
  author    = {Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters},
  year      = {2026},
  url       = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/emdat-country-profiles-syr},
  note      = {Repackaged for machine learning by Electric Sheep Africa (https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica)}
}

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