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Democratic Republic of the Congo: Languages | Africa (DRC official open data) 560 rows - 1 Africa country - 2016 - Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa TL;DR This dataset packages one official CSV resource from DRC as ML-ready Parquet. The source file is the provenance boundary; all usable indicators or tabular columns from the resource stay together in this repo. About the source Source: Democratic Republic of the Congo: Languages Publisher:… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-drc-democratic-republic-of-the-congo-languages-7667d70e.

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Democratic Republic of the Congo: Languages | Africa (DRC official open data)

560 rows - 1 Africa country - 2016 - Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

rows countries years indicators license

TL;DR

This dataset packages one official CSV resource from DRC as ML-ready Parquet. The source file is the provenance boundary; all usable indicators or tabular columns from the resource stay together in this repo.

About the source

Geographic coverage

1 Africa country:

CountryRowsFirst yearLast yearName
COD56020162016DRC

Indicators or Resource Contents

  • —democratic-republic-of-the-congo-languages-location-level-12cbe8f8 - Democratic Republic of the Congo: Languages - location level
  • —democratic-republic-of-the-congo-languages-language-rank-0f57ccff - Democratic Republic of the Congo: Languages - language rank
  • —democratic-republic-of-the-congo-languages-proportion-value-783f005a - Democratic Republic of the Congo: Languages - proportion value
  • —democratic-republic-of-the-congo-languages-reliability-score-7bc56a29 - Democratic Republic of the Congo: Languages - reliability score

Schema

ColumnTypeDescriptionExample
indicator_idstringStable indicator identifier.democratic-republic-of-the-congo-languages-location-level-12cbe8f8
indicator_namestringHuman-readable indicator name.Democratic Republic of the Congo: Languages - location level
country_iso3stringISO3 country code.COD
country_namestringCountry name.DRC
datestringObservation date.2016-12-31
yearInt64Observation year.2016
valuefloat64Numeric observation value.0.0
unitstringMeasurement unit, when available.source_units_unspecified
dimension_location_codestringSource dimension.COD
dimension_location_namestringSource dimension.Congo (Democratic Republic of the)
dimension_language_codestringSource dimension.nyin1248
dimension_language_namestringSource dimension.Nyindu
dimension_dataset_namestringSource dimension.DRC CAID territory language data
dimension_urlstringSource dimension.https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1atGorsG3RrmquqrbYD5TCMdJtv3x8xkA
dimension_sourcestringSource dimension.form
dimension_date_creationstringSource dimension.09-05-2025 12:26:02
dimension_representivity_ratingstringSource dimension.low
source_period_start_yearInt64First year inferred from source resource metadata.``
source_period_end_yearInt64Last year inferred from source resource metadata.``
source_period_labelstringHuman-readable period inferred from source resource metadata.``
source_providercategoryPublishing organization.CLEAR Global (previously Translators without Borders)
source_datasetcategorySource package title.Democratic Republic of the Congo: Languages
source_resourcecategorySource resource title.clearglobal_language_use_COD_admin0.csv
source_package_idcategoryCKAN package UUID.a9eee028-0fbd-47dc-9a36-90b16d386f0f
source_resource_idcategoryCKAN resource UUID.0bc2c589-2e95-4ba3-801c-be9e34767d66
source_urlcategoryOriginal source resource URL.https://data.humdata.org/dataset/a9eee028-0fbd-47dc-9a36-90b16d386f0f/re
license_idcategorySource license identifier.cc-by-sa
retrieved_atcategoryUTC retrieval timestamp.2026-08-20T11:38:57Z

Usage

python
from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-drc-democratic-republic-of-the-congo-languages-7667d70e")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

python
sample_country = df[df["country_iso3"] == "COD"]

Work with indicators

python
if "indicator_id" in df.columns:
    print(df["indicator_id"].value_counts().head())
    sample = df.sort_values([c for c in ["indicator_id", "year"] if c in df.columns])

Citation

bibtex
@misc{electric_sheep_africa_africa_drc_democratic_republic_of_the_congo_languages_7667d70e_2016,
  title        = {Democratic Republic of the Congo: Languages | Africa (DRC official open data)},
  author       = {CLEAR Global (previously Translators without Borders)},
  year         = {2016},
  url          = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/democratic-republic-of-the-congo-languages},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-drc-democratic-republic-of-the-congo-languages-7667d70e}}
}

License

Released under CC BY-SA.

Original data (c) CLEAR Global (previously Translators without Borders). When using this dataset, please cite both the original source above and the Electric Sheep Africa repackaging.

About Electric Sheep

Electric Sheep Africa is part of the Electric Sheep mission: a unified, ML-ready data layer for Africa on Hugging Face. 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/electricsheepafrica

Provenance: ingested 2026-08-20 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://data.humdata.org/dataset/a9eee028-0fbd-47dc-9a36-90b16d386f0f/resource/0bc2c589-2e95-4ba3-801c-be9e34767d66/download/cleargloballanguageusecodadmin0.csv