electricsheepeurope/europe-owid-lgbt-rights-index

Lgbt Rights Index | Europe (Our World in Data)

🇪🇺 1,247 observations · 43 Europe countries · 1991–2019 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Europe

TL;DR

This dataset contains 1,247 observations of Lgbt Rights Index data across 43 Europe 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

43 Europe countries · top rows shown below, sorted by row count:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
ALB	29	1991	2019
AND	29	1991	2019
AUT	29	1991	2019
BEL	29	1991	2019
BGR	29	1991	2019
BIH	29	1991	2019
BLR	29	1991	2019
CHE	29	1991	2019
CZE	29	1991	2019
DEU	29	1991	2019
DNK	29	1991	2019
ESP	29	1991	2019
EST	29	1991	2019
FIN	29	1991	2019
FRA	29	1991	2019
...	28 more countries

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
country_name	string	—	Albania
country_iso3	string	—	ALB
year	int64	—	1991
LGBT+ Policy Index	float64	—	-0.28528816

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepeurope/europe-owid-lgbt-rights-index")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

germany = df[df["country_iso3"] == "DEU"]

Time-series for a single indicator

sample = df.sort_values("year")
sample.plot(x="year", y="LGBT+ Policy Index")

Citation

@misc{europe_owid_lgbt_rights_index_2019,
  title        = {Lgbt Rights Index | Europe (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 Europe},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepeurope/europe-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 Europe repackaging.

About Electric Sheep

Electric Sheep Europe is part of the Electric Sheep mission: a unified, ML-ready data layer for Europe 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/electricsheepeurope

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Provenance: ingested 2026-06-06 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/lgbt-rights-index