electricsheepafrica/africa-liberia-liberia-urban-development-ea4df9f1

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

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

TL;DR

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

Geographic coverage

1 Africa country:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
LBR	633	1960	2025	Liberia

Indicators or Resource Contents

• liberia-urban-development-7cfbd4fb - Liberia - Urban Development

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
indicator_id	string	Stable indicator identifier.	liberia-urban-development-7cfbd4fb
indicator_name	string	Human-readable indicator name.	Liberia - Urban Development
country_iso3	string	ISO3 country code.	LBR
country_name	string	Country name.	Liberia
year	Int64	Observation year.	2015
value	float64	Numeric observation value.	124.445484826
unit	string	Measurement unit, when available.	source_units_unspecified
dimension_country_name	string	Source dimension.	Liberia
dimension_country_iso3	string	Source dimension.	LBR
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.	Liberia - Urban Development
source_resource	category	Source resource title.	Urban Development Indicators for Liberia
source_package_id	category	CKAN package UUID.	92221bd8-24fd-44ec-96d9-e96286328694
source_resource_id	category	CKAN resource UUID.	9b909409-e8b8-488a-8939-99a3cf55c594
source_url	category	Original source resource URL.	https://data.humdata.org/dataset/92221bd8-24fd-44ec-96d9-e96286328694/re
license_id	category	Source license identifier.	cc-by
retrieved_at	category	UTC retrieval timestamp.	2026-08-15T14:15:22Z

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-liberia-liberia-urban-development-ea4df9f1")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

sample_country = df[df["country_iso3"] == "LBR"]

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_liberia_liberia_urban_development_ea4df9f1_2025,
  title        = {Liberia - Urban Development | Africa (Liberia official open data)},
  author       = {World Bank Group},
  year         = {2025},
  url          = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/world-bank-urban-development-indicators-for-liberia},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-liberia-liberia-urban-development-ea4df9f1}}
}

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 2026-08-15 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://data.humdata.org/dataset/92221bd8-24fd-44ec-96d9-e96286328694/resource/9b909409-e8b8-488a-8939-99a3cf55c594/download/urban-development_lbr.csv