electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-absolute-number-of-deaths-from-ambient-particulate-air-pollution

Absolute Number Of Deaths From Ambient Particulate Air Pollution | Africa (Our World in Data)

🌍 308 observations · 52 Africa countries · 1990–2015 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 308 observations of Absolute Number Of Deaths From Ambient Particulate Air Pollution data across 52 Africa countries, spanning 1990–2015.

About the source

• Source: Our World in Data
• Publisher: Our World in Data
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: Absolute Number Of Deaths From Ambient Particulate Air Pollution

Geographic coverage

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

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
AGO	6	1990	2015
BDI	6	1990	2015
BEN	6	1990	2015
BFA	6	1990	2015
BWA	6	1990	2015
CAF	6	1990	2015
CIV	6	1990	2015
CMR	6	1990	2015
COG	6	1990	2015
COM	6	1990	2015
CPV	6	1990	2015
DJI	6	1990	2015
DZA	6	1990	2015
EGY	6	1990	2015
ERI	6	1990	2015
...	37 more countries

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
country_name	string	—	Algeria
country_iso3	string	—	DZA
year	int64	—	1990
Absolute deaths from ambient PM2.5 air pollution- State of Global Air	int64	—	6800

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-absolute-number-of-deaths-from-ambient-particulate-air-pollution")
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="Absolute deaths from ambient PM2.5 air pollution- State of Global Air")

Citation

@misc{africa_owid_absolute_number_of_deaths_from_ambient_particulate_air_pollution_2015,
  title        = {Absolute Number Of Deaths From Ambient Particulate Air Pollution | Africa (Our World in Data)},
  author       = {Our World in Data},
  year         = {2015},
  url          = {https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/absolute-number-of-deaths-from-ambient-particulate-air-pollution},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-absolute-number-of-deaths-from-ambient-particulate-air-pollution}}
}

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-number-of-deaths-from-ambient-particulate-air-pollution