electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-adoption-of-mobile-money-accounts-vs-adoption-of-mobile-phones

Adoption Of Mobile Money Accounts Vs Adoption Of Mobile Phones | Africa (Our World in Data)

🌍 110 observations · 43 Africa countries · 2014–2022 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 110 observations of Adoption Of Mobile Money Accounts Vs Adoption Of Mobile Phones data across 43 Africa countries, spanning 2014–2022.

About the source

• Source: Our World in Data
• Publisher: Our World in Data
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: Adoption Of Mobile Money Accounts Vs Adoption Of Mobile Phones

Geographic coverage

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

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
BEN	3	2014	2021
BFA	3	2014	2021
BWA	3	2014	2022
COG	3	2014	2021
CIV	3	2014	2021
CMR	3	2014	2021
COD	3	2014	2022
EGY	3	2014	2021
GHA	3	2014	2021
GAB	3	2014	2021
ETH	3	2014	2022
UGA	3	2014	2021
ZAF	3	2014	2021
ZMB	3	2014	2021
GIN	3	2014	2021
...	28 more countries

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
country_name	string	—	Algeria
country_iso3	string	—	DZA
year	int64	—	2021
Share with a mobile money account	float64	—	2.022727
Share with a mobile phone	float64	—	95.180176
World region according to OWID	string	—	Africa

Data quality & caveats

• Share with a mobile money account column has 0.9% null values (filtered to non-null in this dataset).

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-adoption-of-mobile-money-accounts-vs-adoption-of-mobile-phones")
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 a mobile money account")

Citation

@misc{africa_owid_adoption_of_mobile_money_accounts_vs_adoption_of_mobile_phones_2022,
  title        = {Adoption Of Mobile Money Accounts Vs Adoption Of Mobile Phones | Africa (Our World in Data)},
  author       = {Our World in Data},
  year         = {2022},
  url          = {https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/adoption-of-mobile-money-accounts-vs-adoption-of-mobile-phones},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-adoption-of-mobile-money-accounts-vs-adoption-of-mobile-phones}}
}

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/adoption-of-mobile-money-accounts-vs-adoption-of-mobile-phones