electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-adequacy-of-social-insurance-programs

Adequacy Of Social Insurance Programs | Africa (Our World in Data)

🌍 86 observations · 40 Africa countries · 2002–2022 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 86 observations of Adequacy Of Social Insurance Programs data across 40 Africa countries, spanning 2002–2022.

About the source

• Source: Our World in Data
• Publisher: Our World in Data
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: Adequacy Of Social Insurance Programs

Geographic coverage

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

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
ZAF	7	2005	2021
CIV	5	2002	2021
MWI	4	2004	2019
NER	4	2011	2021
MUS	3	2006	2017
BFA	3	2014	2021
CMR	3	2007	2021
BEN	3	2003	2021
TGO	3	2011	2021
MLI	3	2009	2021
MOZ	3	2008	2019
TCD	3	2011	2022
SEN	3	2011	2021
ZMB	2	2010	2015
RWA	2	2010	2013
...	25 more countries

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
country_name	string	—	Angola
country_iso3	string	—	AGO
year	int64	—	2018
Adequacy of social insurance programs (% of total welfare of beneficiary households)	float64	—	4.948131

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-adequacy-of-social-insurance-programs")
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="Adequacy of social insurance programs (% of total welfare of beneficiary households)")

Citation

@misc{africa_owid_adequacy_of_social_insurance_programs_2022,
  title        = {Adequacy Of Social Insurance Programs | Africa (Our World in Data)},
  author       = {Our World in Data},
  year         = {2022},
  url          = {https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/adequacy-of-social-insurance-programs},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-adequacy-of-social-insurance-programs}}
}

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/adequacy-of-social-insurance-programs