electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-liver-cancer-death-rate

Liver Cancer Death Rate | Africa (Our World in Data)

🌍 119 observations · 6 Africa countries · 1980–2023 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 119 observations of Liver Cancer Death Rate data across 6 Africa countries, spanning 1980–2023.

About the source

• Source: Our World in Data
• Publisher: Our World in Data
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: Liver Cancer Death Rate

Geographic coverage

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

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
MUS	43	1981	2023
ZAF	25	1996	2020
EGY	24	1980	2019
SYC	23	1985	2021
STP	3	1984	1987
CPV	1	2011	2011

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
country_name	string	—	Cape Verde
country_iso3	string	—	CPV
year	int64	—	2011
Age-standardized deaths from liver cancer in both sexes in those aged all ages per 100,000 people	float64	—	9.991155

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-liver-cancer-death-rate")
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="Age-standardized deaths from liver cancer in both sexes in those aged all ages per 100,000 people")

Citation

@misc{africa_owid_liver_cancer_death_rate_2023,
  title        = {Liver Cancer Death Rate | Africa (Our World in Data)},
  author       = {Our World in Data},
  year         = {2023},
  url          = {https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/liver-cancer-death-rate},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-liver-cancer-death-rate}}
}

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/liver-cancer-death-rate