electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-agriculture-orientation-index

Agriculture Orientation Index | Africa (Our World in Data)

🌍 951 observations · 52 Africa countries · 2001–2023 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 951 observations of Agriculture Orientation Index data across 52 Africa countries, spanning 2001–2023.

About the source

• Source: Our World in Data
• Publisher: Our World in Data
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: Agriculture Orientation Index

Geographic coverage

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

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
AGO	23	2001	2023
BEN	23	2001	2023
COD	23	2001	2023
BWA	23	2001	2023
GHA	23	2001	2023
ETH	23	2001	2023
CPV	23	2001	2023
DZA	23	2001	2023
EGY	23	2001	2023
MDG	23	2001	2023
MLI	23	2001	2023
KEN	23	2001	2023
SYC	23	2001	2023
TUN	23	2001	2023
ZAF	23	2001	2023
...	37 more countries

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
country_name	string	—	Algeria
country_iso3	string	—	DZA
year	int64	—	2001
Agriculture orientation index for government spending	float64	—	0.43

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-agriculture-orientation-index")
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="Agriculture orientation index for government spending")

Citation

@misc{africa_owid_agriculture_orientation_index_2023,
  title        = {Agriculture Orientation Index | Africa (Our World in Data)},
  author       = {Our World in Data},
  year         = {2023},
  url          = {https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/agriculture-orientation-index},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-agriculture-orientation-index}}
}

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/agriculture-orientation-index