---
license: cc-by-4.0
language:
- en
tags:
- asia
- world-bank
- wdi
- millenium-development-goals
- tabular
pretty_name: "Millenium development goals — Asia (World Bank WDI)"
---

# Millenium development goals — Asia

**Source:** [World Bank World Development Indicators](https://databank.worldbank.org/source/world-development-indicators)
**Topic:** Millenium development goals
**Coverage:** 2 Asia countries · 1960–2024 · 497 rows
**Indicators:** 5

## About

The World Bank's World Development Indicators (WDI) is the most comprehensive
source of global development data. This dataset contains the **Millenium development goals**
topic filtered to all available Asia countries (ISO3-coded), repackaged
in ML-ready Parquet by [Electric Sheep Asia](https://huggingface.co/electricsheepasia).

## Schema

- `indicator_id` — WDI indicator code (e.g., `SP.POP.TOTL`)
- `indicator_name` — human-readable indicator name
- `country_iso2` / `country_iso3` / `country_name` — geography
- `year` — observation year
- `value` — indicator value
- `unit` — units (often empty in WB data)
- `obs_status` — observation status flags

## Usage

```python
from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("electricsheepasia/asia-worldbank-millenium-development-goals")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
```

## License

[CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — World Bank open data
with attribution. Cite: World Bank, World Development Indicators.