electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-abs-change-energy-consumption

Abs Change Energy Consumption | Africa (Our World in Data)

🌍 2,380 observations · 54 Africa countries · 1966–2024 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 2,380 observations of Abs Change Energy Consumption data across 54 Africa countries, spanning 1966–2024.

About the source

• Source: Our World in Data
• Publisher: Our World in Data
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: Abs Change Energy Consumption

Geographic coverage

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

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
EGY	59	1966	2024
DZA	59	1966	2024
ZAF	59	1966	2024
MAR	59	1966	2024
BEN	44	1981	2024
BFA	44	1981	2024
CAF	44	1981	2024
BWA	44	1981	2024
COD	44	1981	2024
CIV	44	1981	2024
COG	44	1981	2024
COM	44	1981	2024
CPV	44	1981	2024
CMR	44	1981	2024
DJI	44	1981	2024
...	39 more countries

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
country_name	string	—	Algeria
country_iso3	string	—	DZA
year	int64	—	1966
Primary energy consumption	float64	—	4.999878

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-abs-change-energy-consumption")
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="Primary energy consumption")

Citation

@misc{africa_owid_abs_change_energy_consumption_2024,
  title        = {Abs Change Energy Consumption | Africa (Our World in Data)},
  author       = {Our World in Data},
  year         = {2024},
  url          = {https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/abs-change-energy-consumption},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-abs-change-energy-consumption}}
}

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

---

Provenance: ingested 2026-06-01 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/abs-change-energy-consumption