electricsheepafrica/africa-drc-congo-the-democratic-republic-of-the-current-situation-few-df7d233d

Congo, The Democratic Republic of the Current Situation FEWS NET Acute Food Insecurity Classifications Data | Africa (DRC official open data)

64,280 rows - 1 Africa country - 2020-2026 - 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: Congo, The Democratic Republic of the Current Situation FEWS NET Acute Food Insecurity Classifications Data
• Publisher: FEWS NET
• Resource: Congo, The Democratic Republic of the Current Situation FEWS NET Acute Food Insecurity Classifications Data from 2018
• Format: CSV
• License: CC BY 4.0
• Packaging mode: indicator_long

Geographic coverage

1 Africa country:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
COD	64,280	2020	2026	DRC

Indicators or Resource Contents

• congo-the-democratic-republic-of-the-current-situation-fews-net-acute-fo-22778062 - Congo, The Democratic Republic of the Current Situation FEWS NET Acute Food Insecurity Classifications Data - preference rating
• congo-the-democratic-republic-of-the-current-situation-fews-net-acute-fo-75778554 - Congo, The Democratic Republic of the Current Situation FEWS NET Acute Food Insecurity Classifications Data - is allowing for assistance
• congo-the-democratic-republic-of-the-current-situation-fews-net-acute-fo-b65d8c4d - Congo, The Democratic Republic of the Current Situation FEWS NET Acute Food Insecurity Classifications Data - value
• congo-the-democratic-republic-of-the-current-situation-fews-net-acute-fo-6fd7f8f6 - Congo, The Democratic Republic of the Current Situation FEWS NET Acute Food Insecurity Classifications Data - id
• congo-the-democratic-republic-of-the-current-situation-fews-net-acute-fo-7b14799b - Congo, The Democratic Republic of the Current Situation FEWS NET Acute Food Insecurity Classifications Data - datacollectionperiod
• congo-the-democratic-republic-of-the-current-situation-fews-net-acute-fo-b0001e70 - Congo, The Democratic Republic of the Current Situation FEWS NET Acute Food Insecurity Classifications Data - datacollection
• congo-the-democratic-republic-of-the-current-situation-fews-net-acute-fo-edfb6756 - Congo, The Democratic Republic of the Current Situation FEWS NET Acute Food Insecurity Classifications Data - geographic unit
• congo-the-democratic-republic-of-the-current-situation-fews-net-acute-fo-bc4da210 - Congo, The Democratic Republic of the Current Situation FEWS NET Acute Food Insecurity Classifications Data - datasourceorganization
• congo-the-democratic-republic-of-the-current-situation-fews-net-acute-fo-d6c361b3 - Congo, The Democratic Republic of the Current Situation FEWS NET Acute Food Insecurity Classifications Data - datasourcedocument
• congo-the-democratic-republic-of-the-current-situation-fews-net-acute-fo-f89101c9 - Congo, The Democratic Republic of the Current Situation FEWS NET Acute Food Insecurity Classifications Data - dataseries

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
indicator_id	string	Stable indicator identifier.	congo-the-democratic-republic-of-the-current-situation-fews-net-acute-fo
indicator_name	string	Human-readable indicator name.	Congo, The Democratic Republic of the Current Situation FEWS NET Acute F
country_iso3	string	ISO3 country code.	COD
country_name	string	Country name.	DRC
year	Int64	Observation year.	2020
value	float64	Numeric observation value.	90.0
unit	string	Measurement unit, when available.	source_units_unspecified
dimension_source_organization	string	Source dimension.	FEWS NET, Democratic Republic of the Congo
dimension_source_document	string	Source dimension.	Food Security Outlook, Democratic Republic of the Congo
dimension_country	string	Source dimension.	Democratic Republic of the Congo
dimension_country_code	string	Source dimension.	CD
dimension_geographic_group	string	Source dimension.	Middle Africa
dimension_fewsnet_region	string	Source dimension.	Southern Africa
dimension_geographic_unit_full_name	string	Source dimension.	Agriculture with High Production and Marketing, Bagata, Kwilu, Democrati
dimension_geographic_unit_name	string	Source dimension.	Agriculture with High Production and Marketing
dimension_unit_type	string	Source dimension.	fsc_admin_lhz
dimension_fnid	string	Source dimension.	CD2020C3220128
dimension_classification_scale	string	Source dimension.	IPC 3.0
dimension_scenario_name	string	Source dimension.	Current Situation
dimension_projection_start	string	Source dimension.	2020-02-01
dimension_projection_end	string	Source dimension.	2020-02-29
dimension_status	string	Source dimension.	Not Projected
dimension_description	string	Source dimension.	``
dimension_scenario	string	Source dimension.	CS
dimension_document_type	string	Source dimension.	Acute Food Insecurity Classification
dimension_dataseries_name	string	Source dimension.	Agriculture with High Production and Marketing, Bagata, Kwilu, Democrati
dimension_specialization_type	string	Source dimension.	/IPCPhase/
dimension_dataseries_specialization_type	string	Source dimension.	/IPCClassification/
dimension_data_usage_policy	string	Source dimension.	Public
dimension_created	string	Source dimension.	2020-11-19T12:16:30
dimension_modified	string	Source dimension.	2020-11-19T12:16:30
dimension_collection_status	string	Source dimension.	Published
dimension_collection_status_changed	string	Source dimension.	2020-12-17T16:15:09
dimension_collection_schedule	string	Source dimension.	Ad Hoc
dimension_reporting_date	string	Source dimension.	2020-02-01
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	category	Human-readable period inferred from source resource metadata.	2018
source_provider	category	Publishing organization.	FEWS NET
source_dataset	category	Source package title.	Congo, The Democratic Republic of the Current Situation FEWS NET Acute F
source_resource	category	Source resource title.	Congo, The Democratic Republic of the Current Situation FEWS NET Acute F
source_package_id	category	CKAN package UUID.	68d4c823-161d-42e5-bdf4-0f265a430360
source_resource_id	category	CKAN resource UUID.	ba4f043c-8454-412a-bf04-9cc51b062d1a
source_url	category	Original source resource URL.	https://fdw.fews.net/api/ipcphase/?preference=best&country=CD&scenario=C
license_id	category	Source license identifier.	cc-by
retrieved_at	category	UTC retrieval timestamp.	2026-08-20T11:38:57Z

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-drc-congo-the-democratic-republic-of-the-current-situation-few-df7d233d")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

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

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_drc_congo_the_democratic_republic_of_the_current_situation_few_df7d233d_2026,
  title        = {Congo, The Democratic Republic of the Current Situation FEWS NET Acute Food Insecurity Classifications Data | Africa (DRC official open data)},
  author       = {FEWS NET},
  year         = {2026},
  url          = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/congo__the_democratic_republic_of_the_current_situation_fewsnet_ipc_classification},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-drc-congo-the-democratic-republic-of-the-current-situation-few-df7d233d}}
}

License

Released under CC BY 4.0.

Original data (c) FEWS NET. 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 2026-08-20 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://fdw.fews.net/api/ipcphase/?preference=best&country=CD&scenario=CS&format=csv