electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-obesity-vs-gdp

Obesity Vs Gdp | Africa (Our World in Data)

🌍 2,430 observations · 54 Africa countries · 1980–2024 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 2,430 observations of Obesity Vs Gdp data across 54 Africa countries, spanning 1980–2024.

About the source

• Source: Our World in Data
• Publisher: Our World in Data
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: Obesity Vs Gdp

Geographic coverage

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

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
AGO	45	1980	2024
BDI	45	1980	2024
BEN	45	1980	2024
BFA	45	1980	2024
BWA	45	1980	2024
CAF	45	1980	2024
CIV	45	1980	2024
CMR	45	1980	2024
COD	45	1980	2024
COG	45	1980	2024
COM	45	1980	2024
CPV	45	1980	2024
DJI	45	1980	2024
DZA	45	1980	2024
EGY	45	1980	2024
...	39 more countries

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
country_name	string	—	Algeria
country_iso3	string	—	DZA
year	int64	—	1980
Obesity prevalence	float64	—	6.686411
GDP per capita	float64	—	11728.546
World region according to OWID	string	—	Africa

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-obesity-vs-gdp")
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="Obesity prevalence")

Citation

@misc{africa_owid_obesity_vs_gdp_2024,
  title        = {Obesity Vs Gdp | Africa (Our World in Data)},
  author       = {Our World in Data},
  year         = {2024},
  url          = {https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/obesity-vs-gdp},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-obesity-vs-gdp}}
}

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 2026-06-06 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/obesity-vs-gdp