electricsheepafrica/africa-tanzania-national-bureau-of-statistics-43c61811

National Bureau of Statistics | Africa (Tanzania official open data)

171 rows - 1 Africa country - 2018 - Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset packages one official XLS resource from Tanzania 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: National Bureau of Statistics
• Publisher: National Bureau of Statistics, Tanzania
• Resource: GROSS_DOMESTIC_PRODUCT_2018.xls
• Format: XLS
• License: Other open license
• Packaging mode: tabular_resource

Geographic coverage

1 Africa country:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
TZA	171	2018	2018	Tanzania

Indicators or Resource Contents

• This source file is packaged as a normalized tabular resource.

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
source_record_id	string	Stable row identifier for tabular resources.	nbs-stat-bf4cab026647dd:gdp-by-production-and-expenditu:0
country_iso3	string	ISO3 country code.	TZA
country_name	string	Country name.	Tanzania
source_sheet	string	Workbook sheet name, when the source is a spreadsheet.	GDP by Production and Expenditu
year	Int64	Observation year.	2018
a	string	Source column.	``
agriculture_forestry_and_fishing	string	Source column.	Crops
d_16546181_369550066	float64	Source column.	8797362.113201773
d_19551225_214639287	float64	Source column.	10500527.602967458
d_21313803_09607378	float64	Source column.	11562090.038869968
d_25234560_1615303	float64	Source column.	13279392.275067069
d_29739110_77205689	float64	Source column.	16474729.384668292
d_34154593_77621647	float64	Source column.	19703004.018261068
d_36539300_27285395	float64	Source column.	20969477.3008638
source_period_start_year	Int64	First year inferred from source resource metadata.	2018
source_period_end_year	Int64	Last year inferred from source resource metadata.	2018
source_period_label	string	Human-readable period inferred from source resource metadata.	2018
source_provider	string	Publishing organization.	National Bureau of Statistics, Tanzania
source_dataset	string	Source package title.	National Bureau of Statistics
source_resource	string	Source resource title.	GROSS_DOMESTIC_PRODUCT_2018.xls
source_package_id	string	CKAN package UUID.	gross-domestic-product-gdp
source_resource_id	string	CKAN resource UUID.	nbs-stat-bf4cab026647dd
source_url	string	Original source resource URL.	https://www.nbs.go.tz/uploads/statistics/documents/en-1705429386-GROSS_D
license_id	string	Source license identifier.	other-open
retrieved_at	string	UTC retrieval timestamp.	2026-07-21T20:05:22Z

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-tanzania-national-bureau-of-statistics-43c61811")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

sample_country = df[df["country_iso3"] == "TZA"]

Work with indicators

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

@misc{electric_sheep_africa_africa_tanzania_national_bureau_of_statistics_43c61811_2018,
  title        = {National Bureau of Statistics | Africa (Tanzania official open data)},
  author       = {National Bureau of Statistics, Tanzania},
  year         = {2018},
  url          = {https://www.nbs.go.tz/statistics/topic/gross-domestic-product-gdp},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-tanzania-national-bureau-of-statistics-43c61811}}
}

License

Released under Other open license.

Original data (c) National Bureau of Statistics, Tanzania. 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

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Provenance: ingested 2026-07-21 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://www.nbs.go.tz/uploads/statistics/documents/en-1705429386-GROSS_DOMESTIC_PRODUCT_2018.xls