electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-air-passengers-carried

Air Passengers Carried | Africa (Our World in Data)

🌍 2,213 observations · 53 Africa countries · 1970–2023 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 2,213 observations of Air Passengers Carried data across 53 Africa countries, spanning 1970–2023.

About the source

• Source: Our World in Data
• Publisher: Our World in Data
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: Air Passengers Carried

Geographic coverage

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

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
BFA	54	1970	2023
DZA	54	1970	2023
EGY	54	1970	2023
ETH	54	1970	2023
CMR	54	1970	2023
MUS	54	1970	2023
MRT	54	1970	2023
NGA	54	1970	2023
SDN	54	1970	2023
ZAF	54	1970	2023
SEN	54	1970	2023
TUN	54	1970	2023
TZA	54	1970	2023
LBY	54	1970	2023
MAR	54	1970	2023
...	38 more countries

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
country_name	string	—	Algeria
country_iso3	string	—	DZA
year	int64	—	1970
Air transport, passengers carried	float64	—	563200.0

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-air-passengers-carried")
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="Air transport, passengers carried")

Citation

@misc{africa_owid_air_passengers_carried_2023,
  title        = {Air Passengers Carried | Africa (Our World in Data)},
  author       = {Our World in Data},
  year         = {2023},
  url          = {https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/air-passengers-carried},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-air-passengers-carried}}
}

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/air-passengers-carried