electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-electricity-gas

Electricity Gas | Africa (Our World in Data)

🌍 1,372 observations · 54 Africa countries · 1985–2025 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 1,372 observations of Electricity Gas data across 54 Africa countries, spanning 1985–2025.

About the source

• Source: Our World in Data
• Publisher: Our World in Data
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: Electricity Gas

Geographic coverage

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

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
EGY	41	1985	2025
ZAF	41	1985	2025
MAR	26	2000	2025
NGA	26	2000	2025
KEN	26	2000	2025
ETH	26	2000	2025
TUN	26	2000	2025
GHA	25	2000	2024
CIV	25	2000	2024
BWA	25	2000	2024
CPV	25	2000	2024
DJI	25	2000	2024
COD	25	2000	2024
COG	25	2000	2024
GMB	25	2000	2024
...	39 more countries

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
country_name	string	—	Algeria
country_iso3	string	—	DZA
year	int64	—	2000
Gas	float64	—	24.58

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-electricity-gas")
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="Gas")

Citation

@misc{africa_owid_electricity_gas_2025,
  title        = {Electricity Gas | Africa (Our World in Data)},
  author       = {Our World in Data},
  year         = {2025},
  url          = {https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-gas},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-electricity-gas}}
}

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 2026-06-03 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-gas