electricsheepafrica/africa-world-bank-aid-effectiveness-indicators-for-somalia

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tags:
- africa
- humanitarian
- hdx
- electric-sheep-africa
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pretty_name: "Somalia - Aid Effectiveness"
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num_examples: 1815
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---

# Somalia - Aid Effectiveness

**Publisher:** World Bank Group · **Source:** [HDX](https://data.humdata.org/dataset/world-bank-aid-effectiveness-indicators-for-somalia) · **License:** `cc-by` · **Updated:** 2025-08-28

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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-somalia) on HDX.

Aid effectiveness is the impact that aid has in reducing poverty and inequality, increasing growth, building capacity, and accelerating achievement of the Millennium Development Goals set by the international community. Indicators here cover aid received as well as progress in reducing poverty and improving education, health, and other measures of human welfare.

Each row in this dataset represents country-level aggregates. Data was last updated on HDX on 2025-08-28. Geographic scope: **SOM**.

*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)** | 2,269 |
| **Columns** | 8 (2 numeric, 6 categorical, 0 datetime) |
| **Train split** | 1,815 rows |
| **Test split** | 453 rows |
| **Geographic scope** | SOM |
| **Publisher** | World Bank Group |
| **HDX last updated** | 2025-08-28 |

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## Variables

**Geographic** — `country_name` (Somalia, #country+name), `country_iso3` (SOM, #country+code), `year` (range 1960.0–2024.0).

**Outcome / Measurement** — `value` (range -4190000.0572–3240790039.0625).

**Identifier / Metadata** — `indicator_name` (Net migration, Net bilateral aid flows from DAC donors, European Union institutions (current US$), Net bilateral aid flows from DAC donors, Italy (current US$)), `indicator_code` (SM.POP.NETM, DC.DAC.CECL.CD, DC.DAC.ITAL.CD), `esa_source` (HDX), `esa_processed` (2026-04-08).

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## Quick Start

```python
from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-world-bank-aid-effectiveness-indicators-for-somalia")
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% | Somalia, #country+name |
| `country_iso3` | object | 0.0% | SOM, #country+code |
| `year` | float64 | 0.0% | 1960.0 – 2024.0 (mean 1996.2941) |
| `indicator_name` | object | 0.0% | Net migration, Net bilateral aid flows from DAC donors, European Union institutions (current US$), Net bilateral aid flows from DAC donors, Italy (current US$) |
| `indicator_code` | object | 0.0% | SM.POP.NETM, DC.DAC.CECL.CD, DC.DAC.ITAL.CD |
| `value` | float64 | 0.0% | -4190000.0572 – 3240790039.0625 (mean 105765124.4893) |
| `esa_source` | object | 0.0% | HDX |
| `esa_processed` | object | 0.0% | 2026-04-08 |

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## Numeric Summary

| Column | Min | Max | Mean | Median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| `year` | 1960.0 | 2024.0 | 1996.2941 | 1998.0 |
| `value` | -4190000.0572 | 3240790039.0625 | 105765124.4893 | 3184680.3427 |

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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`. 2 column(s) were cast from string to numeric or datetime based on parse-success rate (>85% threshold). 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-aid-effectiveness-indicators-for-somalia) for the publisher's own methodology notes and caveats.

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## Citation

```bibtex
@dataset{hdx_africa_world_bank_aid_effectiveness_indicators_for_somalia,
title = {Somalia - Aid Effectiveness},
author = {World Bank Group},
year = {2025},
url = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/world-bank-aid-effectiveness-indicators-for-somalia},
note = {Repackaged for machine learning by Electric Sheep Africa (https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica)}
}
```

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