electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-adults-smoking-2007-2018

Adults Smoking 2007 2018 | Africa (Our World in Data)

🌍 378 observations · 42 Africa countries · 2000–2023 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 378 observations of Adults Smoking 2007 2018 data across 42 Africa countries, spanning 2000–2023.

About the source

• Source: Our World in Data
• Publisher: Our World in Data
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: Adults Smoking 2007 2018

Geographic coverage

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

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
BDI	9	2000	2023
BEN	9	2000	2023
BFA	9	2000	2023
BWA	9	2000	2023
CIV	9	2000	2023
CMR	9	2000	2023
COD	9	2000	2023
COG	9	2000	2023
COM	9	2000	2023
CPV	9	2000	2023
DZA	9	2000	2023
EGY	9	2000	2023
ETH	9	2000	2023
GHA	9	2000	2023
GMB	9	2000	2023
...	27 more countries

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
country_name	string	—	Algeria
country_iso3	string	—	DZA
year	int64	—	2000
Share of adults in 2000	float64	—	22.9
Share of adults in 2022	float64	—	21.2
World region according to OWID	string	—	Africa
Share of adults in 2022 (Original Year)	float64	—	2022.0

Data quality & caveats

• Share of adults in 2000 column has 11.1% null values (filtered to non-null in this dataset).

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-adults-smoking-2007-2018")
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 of adults in 2000")

Citation

@misc{africa_owid_adults_smoking_2007_2018_2023,
  title        = {Adults Smoking 2007 2018 | Africa (Our World in Data)},
  author       = {Our World in Data},
  year         = {2023},
  url          = {https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/adults-smoking-2007-2018},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-adults-smoking-2007-2018}}
}

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/adults-smoking-2007-2018