electricsheepafrica/africa-population-of-mali-disaggregated-by-sex

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- humanitarian
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- electric-sheep-africa
- baseline-population
- female
- gender
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- mli
pretty_name: "Population of Mali disaggregated by sex for 2013"
dataset_info:
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---

# Population of Mali disaggregated by sex for 2013

**Publisher:** OCHA Mali · **Source:** [HDX](https://data.humdata.org/dataset/population-of-mali-disaggregated-by-sex) · **License:** `other-pd-nr` · **Updated:** 2025-07-22

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## Abstract

The data of the population of Mali is disaggregated by sex in this file. The data is at the Communes level (Admin 3). The data was compiled in May 2013 by the DNP and is an official estimation based on the 2009 official census for Mali.

Each row in this dataset represents tabular records. Data was last updated on HDX on 2025-07-22. Geographic scope: **MLI**.

*Curated into ML-ready Parquet format by [Electric Sheep Africa](https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica).*

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## Dataset Characteristics

| | |
|---|---|
| **Domain** | Demographics and population |
| **Unit of observation** | Tabular records |
| **Rows (total)** | 65,535 |
| **Columns** | 2 (0 numeric, 2 categorical, 0 datetime) |
| **Train split** | 52,428 rows |
| **Test split** | 13,107 rows |
| **Geographic scope** | MLI |
| **Publisher** | OCHA Mali |
| **HDX last updated** | 2025-07-22 |

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## Variables

**Identifier / Metadata** — `esa_source` (HDX), `esa_processed` (2026-04-18).

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## Quick Start

```python
from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-population-of-mali-disaggregated-by-sex")
train = ds["train"].to_pandas()
test = ds["test"].to_pandas()

print(train.shape)
train.head()
```

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## Schema

| Column | Type | Null % | Range / Sample Values |
|---|---|---|---|
| `esa_source` | object | 0.0% | HDX |
| `esa_processed` | object | 0.0% | 2026-04-18 |

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## Numeric Summary

| Column | Min | Max | Mean | Median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
_No numeric columns._

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## Curation

Raw data was downloaded from HDX via the CKAN API and converted to Parquet. Column names were lowercased and standardised to snake_case. Common missing-value markers (`N/A`, `null`, `none`, `-`, `unknown`, `no data`, `#N/A`) were unified to `NaN`. 17 column(s) with >80% missing values were removed: `unnamed_0`, `unnamed_1`, `unnamed_2`, `unnamed_3`, `unnamed_4`, `unnamed_5`.... The dataset was split 80/20 into train and test partitions using a fixed random seed (42) and saved as Snappy-compressed Parquet.

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## Limitations

- Data originates from OCHA Mali and has not been independently validated by ESA.
- Automated cleaning cannot correct for misreported values, definitional inconsistencies, or sampling bias in the original collection.
- Refer to the [original HDX dataset page](https://data.humdata.org/dataset/population-of-mali-disaggregated-by-sex) for the publisher's own methodology notes and caveats.

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## Citation

```bibtex
@dataset{hdx_africa_population_of_mali_disaggregated_by_sex,
title = {Population of Mali disaggregated by sex for 2013},
author = {OCHA Mali},
year = {2025},
url = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/population-of-mali-disaggregated-by-sex},
note = {Repackaged for machine learning by Electric Sheep Africa (https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica)}
}
```

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*[Electric Sheep Africa](https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica) — Africa's ML dataset infrastructure. Lagos, Nigeria.*