electricsheepeurope/europe-worldbank-millenium-development-goals

Millenium development goals — Europe (World Bank WDI)

🇪🇺 5,814 observations · 26 Europe countries · 1960–2024 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Europe

TL;DR

This dataset contains 5,814 observations of Millenium development goals data across 26 Europe countries, spanning 1960–2024, covering 5 distinct indicators.

About the source

The World Bank's World Development Indicators (WDI) is the world's most-cited reference for global development data. It compiles officially-recognized international statistics from national accounts, government agencies, and partner organizations (IMF, WHO, FAO, UNESCO, ILO, UN agencies). The WDI covers over 1,400 indicators across 21 topics for 217 economies, with annual updates as new data become available.

• Source: World Bank
• Publisher: World Bank Group
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: Millenium development goals

Methodology

Data is pulled directly from the World Bank's public API (api.worldbank.org/v2) for every indicator tagged to this topic across all countries in the region. Records with no observed value are dropped. Years are normalized to integers; values are coerced to float64.

Geographic coverage

26 Europe countries · top rows shown below, sorted by row count:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
BEL	316	1960	2024
DEU	316	1960	2024
ITA	316	1960	2024
GBR	316	1960	2024
SWE	314	1960	2024
AUT	312	1960	2024
NOR	312	1960	2024
CHE	312	1960	2024
FRA	312	1960	2024
DNK	308	1960	2024
NLD	304	1960	2024
FIN	291	1961	2024
IRL	246	1974	2024
ESP	202	1980	2024
PRT	201	1961	2024
...	11 more countries

Indicators (sample)

• DC.ODA.TLDC.CD — Net ODA provided, to the least developed countries (current US$)
• DC.ODA.TLDC.GN.ZS — Net ODA provided to the least developed countries (% of GNI)
• DC.ODA.TOTL.CD — Net ODA provided, total (current US$)
• DC.ODA.TOTL.GN.ZS — Net ODA provided, total (% of GNI)
• DC.ODA.TOTL.KD — Net ODA provided, total (constant 2023 US$)

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
indicator_id	string	World Bank WDI indicator code (e.g. SP.POP.TOTL)	DC.ODA.TLDC.GN.ZS
indicator_name	string	Human-readable indicator name	Net ODA provided to the least develop…
country_iso2	string	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code	AT
country_iso3	string	ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code (preferred join key)	AUT
country_name	string	English country name as published by the World Bank	Austria
year	int64	Year of observation (CE)	2023
value	float64	Observed indicator value	0.014787415927207
unit	string	Unit of measurement (often empty)	``
obs_status	string	World Bank observation-status flag (e.g. preliminary, estimated)	``

Data quality & caveats

• Records with null observations are filtered out at ingest.
• Indicator coverage varies by country and year; not every (indicator × country × year) combination is present.
• Some countries appear under multiple aggregate groupings in WB; this dataset is filtered to individual sovereign states only.

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepeurope/europe-worldbank-millenium-development-goals")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

germany = df[df["country_iso3"] == "DEU"]

Time-series for a single indicator

sample = (df[df["indicator_id"] == "DC.ODA.TLDC.GN.ZS"]
          .sort_values("year"))
sample.plot(x="year", y="value", title="DC.ODA.TLDC.GN.ZS")

Pivot to country × year matrix

matrix = (df[df["indicator_id"] == "DC.ODA.TLDC.GN.ZS"]
          .pivot_table(index="year", columns="country_iso3", values="value"))
print(matrix.tail())

Citation

@misc{europe_worldbank_millenium_development_goals_2024,
  title        = {Millenium development goals — Europe (World Bank WDI)},
  author       = {World Bank Group},
  year         = {2024},
  url          = {https://databank.worldbank.org/source/world-development-indicators},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Europe},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepeurope/europe-worldbank-millenium-development-goals}}
}

License

Released under cc-by-4.0.

Original data © World Bank Group. When using this dataset, please cite both the original source above and the Electric Sheep Europe repackaging.

About Electric Sheep

Electric Sheep Europe is part of the Electric Sheep mission: a unified, ML-ready data layer for Europe on HuggingFace. 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/electricsheepeurope

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Provenance: ingested 2026-05-24 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://databank.worldbank.org/source/world-development-indicators