electricsheepasia/asia-settlements-pakistan-settlements

Pakistan - Population of Major Cities

Publisher: OCHA Pakistan · Source: HDX · License: hdx-other · Updated: 2025-04-25

Abstract

Major Cities Population

Each row in this dataset represents tabular records. Data was last updated on HDX on 2025-04-25. Geographic scope: PAK.

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

Dataset Characteristics

Variables

Identifier / Metadata — unnamed_1 (Karampur, Nowshera, Sāhīwāl), unnamed_2 (24 012, census 1981, 5 208 132), unnamed_3 (census 1998, 9 339 023, 5 143 495), unnamed_5 (range 321.0–13205339.0), unnamed_6 (range -1.27–4.66) and 6 others.

Other — pakistan_metropolitan_areas (range 1.0–467.0).

Quick Start

from datasets import load_dataset

ds    = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/asia-settlements-pakistan-settlements")
train = ds["train"].to_pandas()
test  = ds["test"].to_pandas()

print(train.shape)
train.head()

Schema

Numeric Summary

Curation

Raw data was downloaded from HDX via the CKAN API and converted to Parquet. Column names were lowercased and standardised to snakecase. Common missing-value markers (`N/A`, `null`, `none`, `-`, `unknown`, `no data`, `#N/A`) were unified to `NaN`. 1 column(s) with >80% missing values were removed: `unnamed4`. 3 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.

Limitations

• —Data originates from OCHA Pakistan and has not been independently validated by ESA.
• —Automated cleaning cannot correct for misreported values, definitional inconsistencies, or sampling bias in the original collection.
• —The following columns have >20% missing values and should be treated with caution in modelling: unnamed_2, unnamed_6, unnamed_10.
• —Refer to the original HDX dataset page for the publisher's own methodology notes and caveats.

Citation

@dataset{hdx_asia_settlements_pakistan_settlements,
  title     = {Pakistan - Population of Major Cities},
  author    = {OCHA Pakistan},
  year      = {2025},
  url       = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/pakistan-settlements},
  note      = {Repackaged for machine learning by Electric Sheep Africa (https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica)}
}

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