electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-absolute-gains-in-mean-female-height

Absolute Gains In Mean Female Height | Africa (Our World in Data)

🌍 53 observations · 53 Africa countries · 1996–1996 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 53 observations of Absolute Gains In Mean Female Height data across 53 Africa countries, spanning 1996–1996.

About the source

• Source: Our World in Data
• Publisher: Our World in Data
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: Absolute Gains In Mean Female Height

Geographic coverage

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

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
AGO	1	1996	1996
BDI	1	1996	1996
BEN	1	1996	1996
BFA	1	1996	1996
BWA	1	1996	1996
CAF	1	1996	1996
CIV	1	1996	1996
CMR	1	1996	1996
COD	1	1996	1996
COG	1	1996	1996
COM	1	1996	1996
CPV	1	1996	1996
DJI	1	1996	1996
DZA	1	1996	1996
EGY	1	1996	1996
...	38 more countries

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
country_name	string	—	Algeria
country_iso3	string	—	DZA
year	int64	—	1996
Change in female height (cm)	float64	—	7.225959

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-absolute-gains-in-mean-female-height")
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="Change in female height (cm)")

Citation

@misc{africa_owid_absolute_gains_in_mean_female_height_1996,
  title        = {Absolute Gains In Mean Female Height | Africa (Our World in Data)},
  author       = {Our World in Data},
  year         = {1996},
  url          = {https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/absolute-gains-in-mean-female-height},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-absolute-gains-in-mean-female-height}}
}

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/absolute-gains-in-mean-female-height