electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-agriculture-share-gdp

Agriculture Share Gdp | Africa (Our World in Data)

🌍 2,651 observations · 54 Africa countries · 1960–2024 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 2,651 observations of Agriculture Share Gdp data across 54 Africa countries, spanning 1960–2024.

About the source

• Source: Our World in Data
• Publisher: Our World in Data
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: Agriculture Share Gdp

Geographic coverage

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

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
BFA	65	1960	2024
BEN	65	1960	2024
BWA	65	1960	2024
GAB	65	1960	2024
COG	65	1960	2024
CIV	65	1960	2024
GHA	65	1960	2024
EGY	65	1960	2024
SWZ	65	1960	2024
TCD	65	1960	2024
UGA	65	1960	2024
NER	65	1960	2024
ZMB	65	1960	2024
ZAF	65	1960	2024
SDN	65	1960	2024
...	39 more countries

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
country_name	string	—	Algeria
country_iso3	string	—	DZA
year	int64	—	1999
Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (% of GDP)	float64	—	11.10698

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-agriculture-share-gdp")
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, forestry, and fishing, value added (% of GDP)")

Citation

@misc{africa_owid_agriculture_share_gdp_2024,
  title        = {Agriculture Share Gdp | Africa (Our World in Data)},
  author       = {Our World in Data},
  year         = {2024},
  url          = {https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/agriculture-share-gdp},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-agriculture-share-gdp}}
}

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-share-gdp