electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-lgbt-rights-index

Lgbt Rights Index | Africa (Our World in Data)

🌍 1,566 observations · 54 Africa countries · 1991–2019 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 1,566 observations of Lgbt Rights Index data across 54 Africa countries, spanning 1991–2019.

About the source

• Source: Our World in Data
• Publisher: Our World in Data
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: Lgbt Rights Index

Geographic coverage

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

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
AGO	29	1991	2019
BDI	29	1991	2019
BEN	29	1991	2019
BFA	29	1991	2019
BWA	29	1991	2019
CAF	29	1991	2019
CIV	29	1991	2019
CMR	29	1991	2019
COD	29	1991	2019
COG	29	1991	2019
COM	29	1991	2019
CPV	29	1991	2019
DJI	29	1991	2019
DZA	29	1991	2019
EGY	29	1991	2019
...	39 more countries

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
country_name	string	—	Algeria
country_iso3	string	—	DZA
year	int64	—	1991
LGBT+ Policy Index	float64	—	-0.9281232

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-lgbt-rights-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="LGBT+ Policy Index")

Citation

@misc{africa_owid_lgbt_rights_index_2019,
  title        = {Lgbt Rights Index | Africa (Our World in Data)},
  author       = {Our World in Data},
  year         = {2019},
  url          = {https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/lgbt-rights-index},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-lgbt-rights-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 2026-06-08 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/lgbt-rights-index