electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-age-of-mothers-at-childbirth-by-year

Age Of Mothers At Childbirth By Year | Africa (Our World in Data)

🌍 1,890 observations · 54 Africa countries · 15–49 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 1,890 observations of Age Of Mothers At Childbirth By Year data across 54 Africa countries, spanning 15–49.

About the source

• Source: Our World in Data
• Publisher: Our World in Data
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: Age Of Mothers At Childbirth By Year

Geographic coverage

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

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
AGO	35	15	49
BDI	35	15	49
BEN	35	15	49
BFA	35	15	49
BWA	35	15	49
CAF	35	15	49
CIV	35	15	49
CMR	35	15	49
COD	35	15	49
COG	35	15	49
COM	35	15	49
CPV	35	15	49
DJI	35	15	49
DZA	35	15	49
EGY	35	15	49
...	39 more countries

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
country_name	string	—	Algeria
country_iso3	string	—	DZA
year	int64	—	15
1900	float64	—	—
1910	float64	—	—
1920	float64	—	—
1930	float64	—	—
1940	float64	—	—
1950	float64	—	0.029302
1960	float64	—	0.029913
1970	float64	—	0.030604
1980	float64	—	0.015866
1990	float64	—	0.003218
2000	float64	—	0.00047
2010	float64	—	6.9e-05
2020	float64	—	0.001212
2023	float64	—	0.001183

Data quality & caveats

• 1900 column has 100.0% null values (filtered to non-null in this dataset).

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-age-of-mothers-at-childbirth-by-year")
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="1900")

Citation

@misc{africa_owid_age_of_mothers_at_childbirth_by_year_49,
  title        = {Age Of Mothers At Childbirth By Year | Africa (Our World in Data)},
  author       = {Our World in Data},
  year         = {49},
  url          = {https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/age-of-mothers-at-childbirth-by-year},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-age-of-mothers-at-childbirth-by-year}}
}

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-of-mothers-at-childbirth-by-year