electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-agricultural-water-as-a-share-of-total-water-withdrawals

Agricultural Water As A Share Of Total Water Withdrawals | Africa (Our World in Data)

🌍 1,824 observations · 54 Africa countries · 1970–2022 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 1,824 observations of Agricultural Water As A Share Of Total Water Withdrawals data across 54 Africa countries, spanning 1970–2022.

About the source

• Source: Our World in Data
• Publisher: Our World in Data
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: Agricultural Water As A Share Of Total Water Withdrawals

Geographic coverage

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

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
GHA	53	1970	2022
UGA	53	1970	2022
MUS	49	1974	2022
SWZ	43	1980	2022
MRT	43	1980	2022
DZA	43	1980	2022
GMB	41	1982	2022
MDG	39	1984	2022
LBY	38	1985	2022
NAM	38	1985	2022
BFA	38	1985	2022
DJI	38	1985	2022
BEN	38	1985	2022
GIN	36	1987	2022
MLI	36	1987	2022
...	39 more countries

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
country_name	string	—	Algeria
country_iso3	string	—	DZA
year	int64	—	1980
Annual freshwater withdrawals, agriculture (% of total freshwater withdrawal)	float64	—	74.0

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-agricultural-water-as-a-share-of-total-water-withdrawals")
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="Annual freshwater withdrawals, agriculture (% of total freshwater withdrawal)")

Citation

@misc{africa_owid_agricultural_water_as_a_share_of_total_water_withdrawals_2022,
  title        = {Agricultural Water As A Share Of Total Water Withdrawals | Africa (Our World in Data)},
  author       = {Our World in Data},
  year         = {2022},
  url          = {https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/agricultural-water-as-a-share-of-total-water-withdrawals},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-agricultural-water-as-a-share-of-total-water-withdrawals}}
}

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/agricultural-water-as-a-share-of-total-water-withdrawals