electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-liberal-political-institutions-index

Liberal Political Institutions Index | Africa (Our World in Data)

🌍 7,041 observations · 54 Africa countries · 1789–2025 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 7,041 observations of Liberal Political Institutions Index data across 54 Africa countries, spanning 1789–2025.

About the source

• Source: Our World in Data
• Publisher: Our World in Data
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: Liberal Political Institutions Index

Geographic coverage

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

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
ETH	237	1789	2025
TUN	237	1789	2025
EGY	235	1789	2025
MDG	209	1817	2025
SSD	188	1821	2025
SDN	188	1821	2025
LBR	187	1839	2025
GNB	126	1900	2025
GIN	126	1900	2025
GMB	126	1900	2025
DZA	126	1900	2025
ERI	126	1900	2025
DJI	126	1900	2025
CPV	126	1900	2025
GNQ	126	1900	2025
...	39 more countries

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
country_name	string	—	Algeria
country_iso3	string	—	DZA
year	int64	—	1900
Liberal Political Institutions Index	float64	—	0.345
World region according to OWID	string	—	Africa

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-liberal-political-institutions-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="Liberal Political Institutions Index")

Citation

@misc{africa_owid_liberal_political_institutions_index_2025,
  title        = {Liberal Political Institutions Index | Africa (Our World in Data)},
  author       = {Our World in Data},
  year         = {2025},
  url          = {https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/liberal-political-institutions-index},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-liberal-political-institutions-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/liberal-political-institutions-index