electricsheepafrica/africa-world-bank-external-debt-indicators-for-benin

Benin - External Debt

Publisher: World Bank Group · Source: HDX · License: cc-by · Updated: 2026-03-27

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Abstract

Contains data from the World Bank's data portal. There is also a consolidated country dataset on HDX.

Debt statistics provide a detailed picture of debt stocks and flows of developing countries. Data presented as part of the Quarterly External Debt Statistics takes a closer look at the external debt of high-income countries and emerging markets to enable a more complete understanding of global financial flows. The Quarterly Public Sector Debt database provides further data on public sector valuation methods, debt instruments, and clearly defined tiers of debt for central, state and local government, as well as extra-budgetary agencies and funds. Data are gathered from national statistical organizations and central banks as well as by various major multilateral institutions and World Bank staff.

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

Curated into ML-ready Parquet format by Electric Sheep Africa.

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Dataset Characteristics

Domain	Market and price monitoring
Unit of observation	Country-level aggregates
Rows (total)	2,449
Columns	8 (2 numeric, 6 categorical, 0 datetime)
Train split	1,959 rows
Test split	489 rows
Geographic scope	BEN
Publisher	World Bank Group
HDX last updated	2026-03-27

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Variables

Geographic — country_name (Benin), country_iso3 (BEN), year (range 1960.0–2024.0).

Outcome / Measurement — value (range -1608543370.6841–21256534919.151).

Identifier / Metadata — indicator_name (GNI (current US$), Net ODA received per capita (current US$), Grants, excluding technical cooperation (BoP, current US$)), indicator_code (NY.GNP.MKTP.CD, DT.ODA.ODAT.PC.ZS, BX.GRT.EXTA.CD.WD), esa_source (HDX), esa_processed (2026-04-15).

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Quick Start

from datasets import load_dataset

ds    = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-world-bank-external-debt-indicators-for-benin")
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%	Benin
country_iso3	object	0.0%	BEN
year	int64	0.0%	1960.0 – 2024.0 (mean 1996.9935)
indicator_name	object	0.0%	GNI (current US$), Net ODA received per capita (current US$), Grants, excluding technical cooperation (BoP, current US$)
indicator_code	object	0.0%	NY.GNP.MKTP.CD, DT.ODA.ODAT.PC.ZS, BX.GRT.EXTA.CD.WD
value	float64	0.0%	-1608543370.6841 – 21256534919.151 (mean 408008633.7138)
esa_source	object	0.0%	HDX
esa_processed	object	0.0%	2026-04-15

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Numeric Summary

Column	Min	Max	Mean	Median
year	1960.0	2024.0	1996.9935	1997.0
value	-1608543370.6841	21256534919.151	408008633.7138	12217944.7

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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 for the publisher's own methodology notes and caveats.

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Citation

@dataset{hdx_africa_world_bank_external_debt_indicators_for_benin,
  title     = {Benin - External Debt},
  author    = {World Bank Group},
  year      = {2026},
  url       = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/world-bank-external-debt-indicators-for-benin},
  note      = {Repackaged for machine learning by Electric Sheep Africa (https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica)}
}

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