electricsheepafrica/africa-benin-benin-high-resolution-population-density-maps-demographic-1e99422d

Benin: High Resolution Population Density Maps + Demographic Estimates | Africa (Benin official open data)

7,987,618 rows - 1 Africa country - 2020 - Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset packages one official ZIP resource from Benin 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: Benin: High Resolution Population Density Maps + Demographic Estimates
• Publisher: AI for Good at Meta
• Resource: ben_elderly_60_plus_2020_csv.zip
• Format: ZIP
• License: CC BY 4.0
• Packaging mode: tabular_resource

Geographic coverage

1 Africa country:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
BEN	7,987,618	2020	2020	Benin

Indicators or Resource Contents

• This source file is packaged as a normalized tabular resource.

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
source_record_id	string	Stable row identifier for tabular resources.	b8573a7e-bd04-476c-9c39-9d685e992ba7:0
country_iso3	category	ISO3 country code.	BEN
country_name	category	Country name.	Benin
year	Int64	Observation year.	2020
longitude	float64	Source column.	0.0784722223670562
latitude	float64	Source column.	13.000138888841969
ben_elderly_60_plus_2020	float64	Source column.	0.688533
source_period_start_year	Int64	First year inferred from source resource metadata.	2020
source_period_end_year	Int64	Last year inferred from source resource metadata.	2020
source_period_label	category	Human-readable period inferred from source resource metadata.	2020
source_provider	category	Publishing organization.	AI for Good at Meta
source_dataset	category	Source package title.	Benin: High Resolution Population Density Maps + Demographic Estimates
source_resource	category	Source resource title.	ben_elderly_60_plus_2020_csv.zip
source_package_id	category	CKAN package UUID.	ab712a75-5154-4034-802b-fbbd46c521fa
source_resource_id	category	CKAN resource UUID.	b8573a7e-bd04-476c-9c39-9d685e992ba7
source_url	category	Original source resource URL.	https://data.humdata.org/dataset/ab712a75-5154-4034-802b-fbbd46c521fa/re
license_id	category	Source license identifier.	cc-by
retrieved_at	category	UTC retrieval timestamp.	2026-08-16T22:38:21Z

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-benin-benin-high-resolution-population-density-maps-demographic-1e99422d")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

sample_country = df[df["country_iso3"] == "BEN"]

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_benin_benin_high_resolution_population_density_maps_demographic_1e99422d_2020,
  title        = {Benin: High Resolution Population Density Maps + Demographic Estimates | Africa (Benin official open data)},
  author       = {AI for Good at Meta},
  year         = {2020},
  url          = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/highresolutionpopulationdensitymaps-ben},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-benin-benin-high-resolution-population-density-maps-demographic-1e99422d}}
}

License

Released under CC BY 4.0.

Original data (c) AI for Good at Meta. 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 2026-08-17 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://data.humdata.org/dataset/ab712a75-5154-4034-802b-fbbd46c521fa/resource/b8573a7e-bd04-476c-9c39-9d685e992ba7/download/ben_elderly_60_plus_2020_csv.zip