electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-expected-years-of-schooling-vs-share-in-extreme-poverty

Expected Years Of Schooling Vs Share In Extreme Poverty | Africa (Our World in Data)

🌍 1,730 observations · 54 Africa countries · 1980–2024 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 1,730 observations of Expected Years Of Schooling Vs Share In Extreme Poverty 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: Expected Years Of Schooling Vs Share In Extreme Poverty

Geographic coverage

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

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
CIV	38	1985	2023
GHA	36	1987	2023
COM	35	1990	2024
DZA	35	1988	2023
BWA	35	1985	2023
MAR	35	1984	2023
MRT	35	1987	2023
TUN	35	1985	2023
UGA	35	1989	2023
NGA	35	1985	2023
MDG	35	1980	2023
LSO	35	1986	2023
CAF	34	1990	2023
CMR	34	1990	2023
GMB	34	1990	2023
...	39 more countries

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
country_name	string	—	Algeria
country_iso3	string	—	DZA
year	int64	—	1988
Expected years of schooling	float64	—	9.79789
Share of population in poverty ($3 a day)	float64	—	12.263000011444092
Population	float64	—	24109538.0
World region according to OWID	string	—	Africa

Data quality & caveats

• Expected years of schooling column has 1.2% null values (filtered to non-null in this dataset).

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-expected-years-of-schooling-vs-share-in-extreme-poverty")
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="Expected years of schooling")

Citation

@misc{africa_owid_expected_years_of_schooling_vs_share_in_extreme_poverty_2024,
  title        = {Expected Years Of Schooling Vs Share In Extreme Poverty | Africa (Our World in Data)},
  author       = {Our World in Data},
  year         = {2024},
  url          = {https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/expected-years-of-schooling-vs-share-in-extreme-poverty},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-expected-years-of-schooling-vs-share-in-extreme-poverty}}
}

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/expected-years-of-schooling-vs-share-in-extreme-poverty