electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-above-ground-biomass-in-forest-per-hectare

Above Ground Biomass In Forest Per Hectare | Africa (Our World in Data)

🌍 424 observations · 53 Africa countries · 2000–2020 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 424 observations of Above Ground Biomass In Forest Per Hectare data across 53 Africa countries, spanning 2000–2020.

About the source

• Source: Our World in Data
• Publisher: Our World in Data
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: Above Ground Biomass In Forest Per Hectare

Geographic coverage

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

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
AGO	8	2000	2020
BDI	8	2000	2020
BEN	8	2000	2020
BFA	8	2000	2020
BWA	8	2000	2020
CAF	8	2000	2020
CIV	8	2000	2020
CMR	8	2000	2020
COD	8	2000	2020
COG	8	2000	2020
COM	8	2000	2020
CPV	8	2000	2020
DJI	8	2000	2020
DZA	8	2000	2020
EGY	8	2000	2020
...	38 more countries

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
country_name	string	—	Algeria
country_iso3	string	—	DZA
year	int64	—	2000
Above-ground biomass in forest (tonnes per hectare)	float64	—	29.16

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-above-ground-biomass-in-forest-per-hectare")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

kenya = df[df["country_iso3"] == "KEN"]

Time-series for a single indicator

sample = df.sort_values("year")
sample.plot(x="year", y="Above-ground biomass in forest (tonnes per hectare)")

Citation

@misc{africa_owid_above_ground_biomass_in_forest_per_hectare_2020,
  title        = {Above Ground Biomass In Forest Per Hectare | Africa (Our World in Data)},
  author       = {Our World in Data},
  year         = {2020},
  url          = {https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/above-ground-biomass-in-forest-per-hectare},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-above-ground-biomass-in-forest-per-hectare}}
}

License

Released under cc-by-4.0.

Original data © Our World in Data. 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 2026-06-01 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/above-ground-biomass-in-forest-per-hectare