electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-age-dependency-breakdown

Age Dependency Breakdown | Africa (Our World in Data)

🌍 3,996 observations · 54 Africa countries · 1950–2023 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 3,996 observations of Age Dependency Breakdown data across 54 Africa countries, spanning 1950–2023.

About the source

• Source: Our World in Data
• Publisher: Our World in Data
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: Age Dependency Breakdown

Geographic coverage

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

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
AGO	74	1950	2023
BDI	74	1950	2023
BEN	74	1950	2023
BFA	74	1950	2023
BWA	74	1950	2023
CAF	74	1950	2023
CIV	74	1950	2023
CMR	74	1950	2023
COD	74	1950	2023
COG	74	1950	2023
COM	74	1950	2023
CPV	74	1950	2023
DJI	74	1950	2023
DZA	74	1950	2023
EGY	74	1950	2023
...	39 more countries

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
country_name	string	—	Algeria
country_iso3	string	—	DZA
year	int64	—	1950
Old (>64 years)	float64	—	6.22315
Young (0-14 years)	float64	—	72.64264

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-age-dependency-breakdown")
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="Old (>64 years)")

Citation

@misc{africa_owid_age_dependency_breakdown_2023,
  title        = {Age Dependency Breakdown | Africa (Our World in Data)},
  author       = {Our World in Data},
  year         = {2023},
  url          = {https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/age-dependency-breakdown},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-age-dependency-breakdown}}
}

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/age-dependency-breakdown