electricsheepafrica/africa-benin-total-mid-year-population-population-totale-au-milieu-de-l-bc18c8dd

Total mid-year population - Population totale au milieu de l'année | Africa (Benin official open data)

550 rows - 1 Africa country - 2006-2015 - Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset packages one official XLSX 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: Total mid-year population - Population totale au milieu de l'année
• Publisher: United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
• Resource: total-mid-year-population(2006-2015).xlsx
• Format: XLSX
• License: CC BY 4.0
• Packaging mode: indicator_long

Geographic coverage

1 Africa country:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
BEN	550	2006	2015	Benin

Indicators or Resource Contents

• total-mid-year-population-population-totale-au-milieu-de-l-annee-bc18c8dd - Total mid-year population - Population totale au milieu de l'année

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
indicator_id	string	Stable indicator identifier.	total-mid-year-population-population-totale-au-milieu-de-l-annee-bc18c8d
indicator_name	string	Human-readable indicator name.	Total mid-year population - Population totale au milieu de l'année
country_iso3	string	ISO3 country code.	BEN
source_sheet	string	Workbook sheet name, when the source is a spreadsheet.	Sheet1
country_name	string	Country name.	Benin
year	Int64	Observation year.	2006
value	float64	Numeric observation value.	33749.328
unit	string	Measurement unit, when available.	source_units_unspecified
dimension_country	string	Source dimension.	Algeria
dimension_pays	string	Source dimension.	Algérie
source_period_start_year	Int64	First year inferred from source resource metadata.	2006
source_period_end_year	Int64	Last year inferred from source resource metadata.	2015
source_period_label	category	Human-readable period inferred from source resource metadata.	2006-2015
source_provider	category	Publishing organization.	United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
source_dataset	category	Source package title.	Total mid-year population - Population totale au milieu de l'année
source_resource	category	Source resource title.	total-mid-year-population(2006-2015).xlsx
source_package_id	category	CKAN package UUID.	c9434245-74f0-40c3-a581-52a5cb7a8c70
source_resource_id	category	CKAN resource UUID.	51948a09-c97c-4f71-b26a-247100ac200b
source_url	category	Original source resource URL.	https://data.humdata.org/dataset/c9434245-74f0-40c3-a581-52a5cb7a8c70/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-total-mid-year-population-population-totale-au-milieu-de-l-bc18c8dd")
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_total_mid_year_population_population_totale_au_milieu_de_l_bc18c8dd_2015,
  title        = {Total mid-year population - Population totale au milieu de l'année | Africa (Benin official open data)},
  author       = {United Nations Economic Commission for Africa},
  year         = {2015},
  url          = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/total-mid-year-population-population-totale-au-milieu-de-l-annee},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-benin-total-mid-year-population-population-totale-au-milieu-de-l-bc18c8dd}}
}

License

Released under CC BY 4.0.

Original data (c) United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. 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/c9434245-74f0-40c3-a581-52a5cb7a8c70/resource/51948a09-c97c-4f71-b26a-247100ac200b/download/total-mid-year-population2006-2015.xlsx