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africa-owid-age-of-consent-same-sex-partners-equaldex

country_name stringclasses 28 values	country_iso3 stringclasses 28 values	year int64 1.95k 2.03k	Equal age of consent stringclasses 4 values
Angola	AGO	2,019	Equal
Angola	AGO	2,020	Equal
Angola	AGO	2,021	Equal
Angola	AGO	2,022	Equal
Angola	AGO	2,023	Equal
Angola	AGO	2,024	Equal
Angola	AGO	2,025	Equal
Angola	AGO	2,026	Equal
Benin	BEN	2,018	Equal
Benin	BEN	2,019	Equal
Benin	BEN	2,020	Equal
Benin	BEN	2,021	Equal
Benin	BEN	2,022	Equal
Benin	BEN	2,023	Equal
Benin	BEN	2,024	Equal
Benin	BEN	2,025	Equal
Benin	BEN	2,026	Equal
Botswana	BWA	1,950	Female equal, male unequal or uncertain
Botswana	BWA	1,951	Female equal, male unequal or uncertain
Botswana	BWA	1,952	Female equal, male unequal or uncertain
Botswana	BWA	1,953	Female equal, male unequal or uncertain
Botswana	BWA	1,954	Female equal, male unequal or uncertain
Botswana	BWA	1,955	Female equal, male unequal or uncertain
Botswana	BWA	1,956	Female equal, male unequal or uncertain
Botswana	BWA	1,957	Female equal, male unequal or uncertain
Botswana	BWA	1,958	Female equal, male unequal or uncertain
Botswana	BWA	1,959	Female equal, male unequal or uncertain
Botswana	BWA	1,960	Female equal, male unequal or uncertain
Botswana	BWA	1,961	Female equal, male unequal or uncertain
Botswana	BWA	1,962	Female equal, male unequal or uncertain
Botswana	BWA	1,963	Female equal, male unequal or uncertain
Botswana	BWA	1,964	Female equal, male unequal or uncertain
Botswana	BWA	1,965	Female equal, male unequal or uncertain
Botswana	BWA	1,966	Female equal, male unequal or uncertain
Botswana	BWA	1,967	Female equal, male unequal or uncertain
Botswana	BWA	1,968	Female equal, male unequal or uncertain
Botswana	BWA	1,969	Female equal, male unequal or uncertain
Botswana	BWA	1,970	Female equal, male unequal or uncertain
Botswana	BWA	1,971	Female equal, male unequal or uncertain
Botswana	BWA	1,972	Female equal, male unequal or uncertain
Botswana	BWA	1,973	Female equal, male unequal or uncertain
Botswana	BWA	1,974	Female equal, male unequal or uncertain
Botswana	BWA	1,975	Female equal, male unequal or uncertain
Botswana	BWA	1,976	Female equal, male unequal or uncertain
Botswana	BWA	1,977	Female equal, male unequal or uncertain
Botswana	BWA	1,978	Female equal, male unequal or uncertain
Botswana	BWA	1,979	Female equal, male unequal or uncertain
Botswana	BWA	1,980	Female equal, male unequal or uncertain
Botswana	BWA	1,981	Female equal, male unequal or uncertain
Botswana	BWA	1,982	Female equal, male unequal or uncertain
Botswana	BWA	1,983	Female equal, male unequal or uncertain
Botswana	BWA	1,984	Female equal, male unequal or uncertain
Botswana	BWA	1,985	Female equal, male unequal or uncertain
Botswana	BWA	1,986	Female equal, male unequal or uncertain
Botswana	BWA	1,987	Female equal, male unequal or uncertain
Botswana	BWA	1,988	Female equal, male unequal or uncertain
Botswana	BWA	1,989	Female equal, male unequal or uncertain
Botswana	BWA	1,990	Female equal, male unequal or uncertain
Botswana	BWA	1,991	Female equal, male unequal or uncertain
Botswana	BWA	1,992	Female equal, male unequal or uncertain
Botswana	BWA	1,993	Female equal, male unequal or uncertain
Botswana	BWA	1,994	Female equal, male unequal or uncertain
Botswana	BWA	1,995	Female equal, male unequal or uncertain
Botswana	BWA	1,996	Female equal, male unequal or uncertain
Botswana	BWA	1,997	Female equal, male unequal or uncertain
Botswana	BWA	2,019	Equal
Botswana	BWA	2,020	Equal
Botswana	BWA	2,021	Equal
Botswana	BWA	2,022	Equal
Botswana	BWA	2,023	Equal
Botswana	BWA	2,024	Equal
Botswana	BWA	2,025	Equal
Botswana	BWA	2,026	Equal
Cape Verde	CPV	2,004	Equal
Cape Verde	CPV	2,005	Equal
Cape Verde	CPV	2,006	Equal
Cape Verde	CPV	2,007	Equal
Cape Verde	CPV	2,008	Equal
Cape Verde	CPV	2,009	Equal
Cape Verde	CPV	2,010	Equal
Cape Verde	CPV	2,011	Equal
Cape Verde	CPV	2,012	Equal
Cape Verde	CPV	2,013	Equal
Cape Verde	CPV	2,014	Equal
Cape Verde	CPV	2,015	Equal
Cape Verde	CPV	2,016	Equal
Cape Verde	CPV	2,017	Equal
Cape Verde	CPV	2,018	Equal
Cape Verde	CPV	2,019	Equal
Cape Verde	CPV	2,020	Equal
Cape Verde	CPV	2,021	Equal
Cape Verde	CPV	2,022	Equal
Cape Verde	CPV	2,023	Equal
Cape Verde	CPV	2,024	Equal
Cape Verde	CPV	2,025	Equal
Cape Verde	CPV	2,026	Equal
Central African Republic	CAF	2,010	Equal
Central African Republic	CAF	2,011	Equal
Central African Republic	CAF	2,012	Equal
Central African Republic	CAF	2,013	Equal

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Age Of Consent Same Sex Partners Equaldex | Africa (Our World in Data)

🌍 920 observations · 30 Africa countries · 1950–2026 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 920 observations of Age Of Consent Same Sex Partners Equaldex data across 30 Africa countries, spanning 1950–2026.

About the source

Source: Our World in Data
Publisher: Our World in Data
License: cc-by-4.0
Topic: Age Of Consent Same Sex Partners Equaldex

Geographic coverage

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

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
`GNQ`	77	1950	2026
`COG`	77	1950	2026
`SLE`	77	1950	2026
`SWZ`	77	1950	2026
`ZWE`	77	1950	2026
`SYC`	77	1950	2026
`MWI`	61	1950	2010
`ZAF`	58	1969	2026
`BWA`	56	1950	2026
`ZMB`	55	1950	2004
`MDG`	55	1972	2026
`NAM`	37	1990	2026
`CPV`	23	2004	2026
`CAF`	17	2010	2026
`STP`	15	2012	2026
...	15 more countries

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
`country_name`	`string`	—	`Angola`
`country_iso3`	`string`	—	`AGO`
`year`	`int64`	—	`2019`
`Equal age of consent`	`string`	—	`Equal`

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-age-of-consent-same-sex-partners-equaldex")
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="Equal age of consent")

Citation

@misc{africa_owid_age_of_consent_same_sex_partners_equaldex_2026,
  title        = {Age Of Consent Same Sex Partners Equaldex | Africa (Our World in Data)},
  author       = {Our World in Data},
  year         = {2026},
  url          = {https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/age-of-consent-same-sex-partners-equaldex},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-age-of-consent-same-sex-partners-equaldex}}
}

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

Provenance: ingested 2026-06-01 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/age-of-consent-same-sex-partners-equaldex

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