electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-account-at-financial-institution

Account At Financial Institution | Africa (Our World in Data)

🌍 195 observations · 48 Africa countries · 2011–2024 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 195 observations of Account At Financial Institution data across 48 Africa countries, spanning 2011–2024.

About the source

• Source: Our World in Data
• Publisher: Our World in Data
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: Account At Financial Institution

Geographic coverage

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

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
BFA	5	2011	2024
BEN	5	2011	2024
CMR	5	2011	2024
BWA	5	2011	2024
DZA	5	2011	2024
EGY	5	2011	2024
COG	5	2011	2024
COD	5	2011	2024
GAB	5	2011	2024
MLI	5	2011	2024
MRT	5	2011	2024
MUS	5	2011	2024
NER	5	2011	2024
KEN	5	2011	2024
GIN	5	2011	2024
...	33 more countries

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
country_name	string	—	Algeria
country_iso3	string	—	DZA
year	int64	—	2011
Account ownership at a financial institution or with a mobile-money-service provider (% of population ages 15+)	float64	—	33.286114

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-account-at-financial-institution")
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="Account ownership at a financial institution or with a mobile-money-service provider (% of population ages 15+)")

Citation

@misc{africa_owid_account_at_financial_institution_2024,
  title        = {Account At Financial Institution | Africa (Our World in Data)},
  author       = {Our World in Data},
  year         = {2024},
  url          = {https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/account-at-financial-institution},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-account-at-financial-institution}}
}

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/account-at-financial-institution