electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-access-to-electricity-vs-gdp-per-capita

Access To Electricity Vs Gdp Per Capita | Africa (Our World in Data)

🌍 1,859 observations · 54 Africa countries · 1990–2024 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 1,859 observations of Access To Electricity Vs Gdp Per Capita data across 54 Africa countries, spanning 1990–2024.

About the source

• Source: Our World in Data
• Publisher: Our World in Data
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: Access To Electricity Vs Gdp Per Capita

Geographic coverage

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

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
AGO	35	1990	2024
BDI	35	1990	2024
BEN	35	1990	2024
BFA	35	1990	2024
BWA	35	1990	2024
CAF	35	1990	2024
CIV	35	1990	2024
CMR	35	1990	2024
COD	35	1990	2024
COG	35	1990	2024
COM	35	1990	2024
CPV	35	1990	2024
DZA	35	1990	2024
EGY	35	1990	2024
GMB	35	1990	2024
...	39 more countries

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
country_name	string	—	Algeria
country_iso3	string	—	DZA
year	int64	—	1990
Share with access to electricity	float64	—	98.6
GDP per capita	float64	—	11728.546
World region according to OWID	string	—	Africa

Data quality & caveats

• Share with access to electricity column has 18.9% null values (filtered to non-null in this dataset).

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-access-to-electricity-vs-gdp-per-capita")
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="Share with access to electricity")

Citation

@misc{africa_owid_access_to_electricity_vs_gdp_per_capita_2024,
  title        = {Access To Electricity Vs Gdp Per Capita | Africa (Our World in Data)},
  author       = {Our World in Data},
  year         = {2024},
  url          = {https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/access-to-electricity-vs-gdp-per-capita},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-access-to-electricity-vs-gdp-per-capita}}
}

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/access-to-electricity-vs-gdp-per-capita