【863】Calculate records based on the same value

Suppose we have a dataframe, it has a column of "country". It lists different names of country's names, and for one country maybe it has multiple records. Our task is to create a new dataframe which include the country's names and their corresponding counts of records.

m = pd.DataFrame(df_af_mp['country'].value_counts()) 
m = m.rename(columns={'country': 'value'})
m['country'] = m.index 
m.index = range(len(m)) 

m 

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