electricsheepafrica/africa-eritrea-eritrea-urban-development-61a8d3f4

Eritrea - Urban Development | Africa (Eritrea official open data)

482 rows - 1 Africa country - 1960-2025 - Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset packages one official CSV resource from Eritrea 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: Eritrea - Urban Development
• Publisher: World Bank Group
• Resource: Urban Development Indicators for Eritrea
• Format: CSV
• License: CC BY 4.0
• Packaging mode: indicator_long

Geographic coverage

1 Africa country:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
ERI	482	1960	2025	Eritrea

Indicators or Resource Contents

• eritrea-urban-development-f71051ad - Eritrea - Urban Development

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
indicator_id	string	Stable indicator identifier.	eritrea-urban-development-f71051ad
indicator_name	string	Human-readable indicator name.	Eritrea - Urban Development
country_iso3	string	ISO3 country code.	ERI
country_name	string	Country name.	Eritrea
year	Int64	Observation year.	2015
value	float64	Numeric observation value.	8.39020649157
unit	string	Measurement unit, when available.	source_units_unspecified
dimension_country_name	string	Source dimension.	Eritrea
dimension_country_iso3	string	Source dimension.	ERI
dimension_indicator_name	string	Source dimension.	Urban land area where elevation is below 5 meters (sq. km)
dimension_indicator_code	string	Source dimension.	AG.LND.EL5M.UR.K2
source_period_start_year	Int64	First year inferred from source resource metadata.	``
source_period_end_year	Int64	Last year inferred from source resource metadata.	``
source_period_label	string	Human-readable period inferred from source resource metadata.	``
source_provider	category	Publishing organization.	World Bank Group
source_dataset	category	Source package title.	Eritrea - Urban Development
source_resource	category	Source resource title.	Urban Development Indicators for Eritrea
source_package_id	category	CKAN package UUID.	85c38423-bb6d-4bed-887c-458c1a9841bb
source_resource_id	category	CKAN resource UUID.	ff1618f5-a7a5-49f4-bb08-684728658e7c
source_url	category	Original source resource URL.	https://data.humdata.org/dataset/85c38423-bb6d-4bed-887c-458c1a9841bb/re
license_id	category	Source license identifier.	cc-by
retrieved_at	category	UTC retrieval timestamp.	2026-08-18T19:19:42Z

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-eritrea-eritrea-urban-development-61a8d3f4")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

sample_country = df[df["country_iso3"] == "ERI"]

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_eritrea_eritrea_urban_development_61a8d3f4_2025,
  title        = {Eritrea - Urban Development | Africa (Eritrea official open data)},
  author       = {World Bank Group},
  year         = {2025},
  url          = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/world-bank-urban-development-indicators-for-eritrea},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-eritrea-eritrea-urban-development-61a8d3f4}}
}

License

Released under CC BY 4.0.

Original data (c) World Bank Group. 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 2026-08-18 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://data.humdata.org/dataset/85c38423-bb6d-4bed-887c-458c1a9841bb/resource/ff1618f5-a7a5-49f4-bb08-684728658e7c/download/urban-development_eri.csv