electricsheepasia/asia-unicef-immunization

Immunization | Asia (UNICEF)

🌏 17,256 observations · 48 Asia countries · 1980–2024 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Asia

TL;DR

This dataset contains 17,256 observations of Immunization data across 48 Asia countries, spanning 1980–2024, covering 16 distinct indicators.

About the source

• Source: UNICEF Data Warehouse
• Publisher: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: Immunization

Geographic coverage

48 Asia countries · top rows shown below, sorted by row count:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
OMN	438	1980	2024
MYS	424	1980	2024
ARE	420	1980	2024
BRN	419	1980	2024
KWT	418	1980	2024
IRQ	416	1980	2024
QAT	415	1980	2024
BHR	413	1980	2024
SAU	408	1980	2024
PHL	399	1980	2024
TUR	399	1980	2024
IRN	395	1980	2024
SYR	394	1980	2024
SGP	393	1980	2024
BTN	391	1980	2024
...	33 more countries

Indicators (sample)

• IM_BCG — Percentage of live births who received bacille Calmette-Guerin (vaccine against tuberculosis)
• IM_DTP1 — Percentage of surviving infants who received the first dose of DTP-containing vaccine
• IM_DTP3 — Percentage of surviving infants who received the third dose of DTP-containing vaccine
• IM_HEPB3 — Percentage of surviving infants who received the third dose of hep B-containing vaccine
• IM_HEPBB — Percentage of live births who received hepatitis-B-containing vaccine within 24 hours of birth
• IM_HIB3 — Percentage of surviving infants who received the third dose of Hib-containing vaccine
• IM_HPV — Percentage of females who received the last dose of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine per national schedule
• IM_IPV1 — Percentage of surviving infants who received the first dose of inactivated polio-containing vaccine
• IM_IPV2 — Percentage of surviving infants who received the second dose of inactivated polio-containing vaccine
• IM_MCV1 — Percentage of surviving infants who received the first dose of measles-containing vaccine
• ... and 6 more indicators

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
REF_AREA	string	—	AFG
Geographic area	string	—	Afghanistan
INDICATOR	string	—	IM_BCG
Indicator	string	—	Percentage of live births who receive…
SEX	string	—	_T
Sex	string	—	Total
TIME_PERIOD	int64	—	1982
OBS_VALUE	int64	—	10
UNIT_MULTIPLIER	int64	—	0
Unit multiplier	string	—	Units
UNIT_MEASURE	string	—	PCNT
Unit of measure	string	—	%
OBS_STATUS	string	—	E
Observation Status	string	—	Estimated value
OBS_FOOTNOTE	string	—	Female target population who received…
DATA_SOURCE	string	—	WHO/UNICEF estimates of national immu…
AGE	string	—	Y0
Current age	string	—	Under 1 year old

Disaggregation dimensions

The following columns provide disaggregation dimensions:

• SEX (1 unique values): _T
• Sex (1 unique values): Total
• AGE (5 unique values): Y0, M12T23, Y15, _T, Y02

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepasia/asia-unicef-immunization")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

indonesia = df[df["REF_AREA"] == "IDN"]

Time-series for a single indicator

sample = (df[df["INDICATOR"] == "IM_BCG"]
          .sort_values("TIME_PERIOD"))
sample.plot(x="TIME_PERIOD", y="OBS_VALUE", title="IM_BCG")

Pivot to country × year matrix

matrix = (df[df["INDICATOR"] == "IM_BCG"]
          .pivot_table(index="TIME_PERIOD", columns="REF_AREA", values="OBS_VALUE"))
print(matrix.tail())

Citation

@misc{asia_unicef_immunization_2024,
  title        = {Immunization | Asia (UNICEF)},
  author       = {United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)},
  year         = {2024},
  url          = {https://data.unicef.org/},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Asia},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepasia/asia-unicef-immunization}}
}

License

Released under cc-by-4.0.

Original data © United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). When using this dataset, please cite both the original source above and the Electric Sheep Asia repackaging.

About Electric Sheep

Electric Sheep Asia is part of the Electric Sheep mission: a unified, ML-ready data layer for Asia 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/electricsheepasia

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Provenance: ingested 2026-05-25 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://data.unicef.org/