electricsheepafrica/africa-foreign-direct-investment-fdi-share-of-total-fdi-outflows-us-2015-prices

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) — Share of Total FDI outflows US$, 2015 prices | Africa (FAOSTAT)

🌍 46 observations · 3 Africa countries · 2003–2023 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 46 observations of Investment data across 3 Africa countries, spanning 2003–2023, covering 2 distinct indicators.

About the source

• Source: FAOSTAT (FAO)
• Publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: Investment

Geographic coverage

3 Africa countries · top rows shown below, sorted by row count:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
Morocco	25	2009	2023
Mauritius	18	2003	2020
Zambia	3	2016	2021

Indicators (sample)

• FDI outflows to Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
• FDI outflows to Food, Beverages and Tobacco

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
country_name	string	—	Mauritius
country_m49	int64	—	480
item	string	—	FDI outflows to Agriculture, Forestry…
year	int64	—	2003
value	float64	—	45.242215
unit	string	—	%
flag	string	—	X

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-foreign-direct-investment-fdi-share-of-total-fdi-outflows-us-2015-prices")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

kenya = df[df["country_name"] == "KEN"]

Time-series for a single indicator

sample = (df[df["item"] == "FDI outflows to Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing"]
          .sort_values("year"))
sample.plot(x="year", y="value", title="FDI outflows to Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing")

Pivot to country × year matrix

matrix = (df[df["item"] == "FDI outflows to Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing"]
          .pivot_table(index="year", columns="country_name", values="value"))
print(matrix.tail())

Citation

@misc{africa_foreign_direct_investment_fdi_share_of_total_fdi_outflows_us_2015_prices_2023,
  title        = {Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) — Share of Total FDI outflows US$, 2015 prices | Africa (FAOSTAT)},
  author       = {Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)},
  year         = {2023},
  url          = {https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/FDI},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-foreign-direct-investment-fdi-share-of-total-fdi-outflows-us-2015-prices}}
}

License

Released under cc-by-4.0.

Original data © Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 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 HuggingFace. 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

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Provenance: ingested 2026-06-17 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/FDI