electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-annual-afforestation

Annual Afforestation | Africa (Our World in Data)

🌍 150 observations · 31 Africa countries · 1990–2020 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 150 observations of Annual Afforestation data across 31 Africa countries, spanning 1990–2020.

About the source

• Source: Our World in Data
• Publisher: Our World in Data
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: Annual Afforestation

Geographic coverage

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

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
BFA	5	1990	2020
CMR	5	1990	2020
CIV	5	1990	2020
COD	5	1990	2020
COG	5	1990	2020
CPV	5	1990	2020
COM	5	1990	2020
EGY	5	1990	2020
GAB	5	1990	2020
DJI	5	1990	2020
DZA	5	1990	2020
GIN	5	1990	2020
GMB	5	1990	2020
LBY	5	1990	2020
GNQ	5	1990	2020
...	16 more countries

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
country_name	string	—	Algeria
country_iso3	string	—	DZA
year	int64	—	1990
Afforestation	int64	—	30030

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-annual-afforestation")
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="Afforestation")

Citation

@misc{africa_owid_annual_afforestation_2020,
  title        = {Annual Afforestation | Africa (Our World in Data)},
  author       = {Our World in Data},
  year         = {2020},
  url          = {https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-afforestation},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-annual-afforestation}}
}

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/annual-afforestation