electricsheepafrica/africa-public-sector-lesotho

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- en
license: cc-by-4.0
multilinguality:
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source_datasets:
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task_categories:
- tabular-classification
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tags:
- africa
- humanitarian
- hdx
- electric-sheep-africa
- economics
- indicators
- lso
pretty_name: "Lesotho - Public Sector"
dataset_info:
splits:
- name: train
num_examples: 2633
- name: test
num_examples: 658
---

# Lesotho - Public Sector

**Publisher:** World Bank Group · **Source:** [HDX](https://data.humdata.org/dataset/world-bank-public-sector-indicators-for-lesotho) · **License:** `cc-by` · **Updated:** 2026-03-27

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## Abstract

Contains data from the World Bank's [data portal](http://data.worldbank.org/). There is also a [consolidated country dataset](https://data.humdata.org/dataset/world-bank-combined-indicators-for-lesotho) on HDX.

Effective governments improve people's standard of living by ensuring access to essential services – health, education, water and sanitation, electricity, transport – and the opportunity to live and work in peace and security. Data here includes World Bank staff assessments of country performance in economic management, structural policies, policies for social inclusion and equity, and public sector management and institutions for the poorest countries. Also included are indicators on revenues and expenses from the International Monetary Fund's Government Finance Statistics, and on tax policies from various sources.

Each row in this dataset represents country-level aggregates. Data was last updated on HDX on 2026-03-27. Geographic scope: **LSO**.

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

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## Dataset Characteristics

| | |
|---|---|
| **Domain** | Public health |
| **Unit of observation** | Country-level aggregates |
| **Rows (total)** | 3,292 |
| **Columns** | 8 (2 numeric, 6 categorical, 0 datetime) |
| **Train split** | 2,633 rows |
| **Test split** | 658 rows |
| **Geographic scope** | LSO |
| **Publisher** | World Bank Group |
| **HDX last updated** | 2026-03-27 |

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## Variables

**Geographic** — `country_name` (Lesotho), `country_iso3` (LSO), `year` (range 1976.0–2024.0).

**Outcome / Measurement** — `value` (range -3803755970.0–18624000000.0).

**Identifier / Metadata** — `indicator_name` (Military expenditure (current USD), Military expenditure (current LCU), Military expenditure (% of GDP)), `indicator_code` (MS.MIL.XPND.CD, MS.MIL.XPND.CN, MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS), `esa_source` (HDX), `esa_processed` (2026-04-27).

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## Quick Start

```python
from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-public-sector-lesotho")
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| `country_name` | object | 0.0% | Lesotho |
| `country_iso3` | object | 0.0% | LSO |
| `year` | int64 | 0.0% | 1976.0 – 2024.0 (mean 2007.6476) |
| `indicator_name` | object | 0.0% | Military expenditure (current USD), Military expenditure (current LCU), Military expenditure (% of GDP) |
| `indicator_code` | object | 0.0% | MS.MIL.XPND.CD, MS.MIL.XPND.CN, MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS |
| `value` | float64 | 0.0% | -3803755970.0 – 18624000000.0 (mean 431882230.7491) |
| `esa_source` | object | 0.0% | HDX |
| `esa_processed` | object | 0.0% | 2026-04-27 |

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## Numeric Summary

| Column | Min | Max | Mean | Median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| `year` | 1976.0 | 2024.0 | 2007.6476 | 2009.0 |
| `value` | -3803755970.0 | 18624000000.0 | 431882230.7491 | 25.222 |

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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`. 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 World Bank Group 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/world-bank-public-sector-indicators-for-lesotho) for the publisher's own methodology notes and caveats.

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## Citation

```bibtex
@dataset{hdx_africa_public_sector_lesotho,
title = {Lesotho - Public Sector},
author = {World Bank Group},
year = {2026},
url = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/world-bank-public-sector-indicators-for-lesotho},
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.*