electricsheepeurope/europe-worldbank-climate-change

Climate Change — Europe (World Bank WDI)

🇪🇺 61,629 observations · 44 Europe countries · 1960–2025 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Europe

TL;DR

This dataset contains 61,629 observations of Climate Change data across 44 Europe countries, spanning 1960–2025, covering 51 distinct indicators.

About the source

The World Bank's World Development Indicators (WDI) is the world's most-cited reference for global development data. It compiles officially-recognized international statistics from national accounts, government agencies, and partner organizations (IMF, WHO, FAO, UNESCO, ILO, UN agencies). The WDI covers over 1,400 indicators across 21 topics for 217 economies, with annual updates as new data become available.

• Source: World Bank
• Publisher: World Bank Group
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: Climate Change

Methodology

Data is pulled directly from the World Bank's public API (api.worldbank.org/v2) for every indicator tagged to this topic across all countries in the region. Records with no observed value are dropped. Years are normalized to integers; values are coerced to float64.

Geographic coverage

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

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
DNK	1,669	1960	2025
SWE	1,657	1960	2025
FIN	1,656	1960	2025
ITA	1,656	1960	2025
ESP	1,649	1960	2025
NOR	1,645	1960	2025
GBR	1,644	1960	2025
GRC	1,642	1960	2025
FRA	1,636	1960	2025
HUN	1,628	1960	2025
ROU	1,626	1960	2025
BGR	1,623	1960	2025
NLD	1,621	1960	2025
AUT	1,609	1960	2025
POL	1,604	1960	2025
...	29 more countries

Indicators (sample)

• AG.LND.AGRI.K2 — Agricultural land (sq. km)
• AG.LND.AGRI.ZS — Agricultural land (% of land area)
• AG.LND.ARBL.ZS — Arable land (% of land area)
• AG.LND.EL5M.RU.K2 — Rural land area where elevation is below 5 meters (sq. km)
• AG.LND.EL5M.RU.ZS — Rural land area where elevation is below 5 meters (% of total land area)
• AG.LND.EL5M.UR.K2 — Urban land area where elevation is below 5 meters (sq. km)
• AG.LND.EL5M.UR.ZS — Urban land area where elevation is below 5 meters (% of total land area)
• AG.LND.EL5M.ZS — Land area where elevation is below 5 meters (% of total land area)
• AG.LND.FRST.K2 — Forest area (sq. km)
• AG.LND.FRST.ZS — Forest area (% of land area)
• ... and 41 more indicators

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
indicator_id	string	World Bank WDI indicator code (e.g. SP.POP.TOTL)	AG.LND.EL5M.RU.K2
indicator_name	string	Human-readable indicator name	Rural land area where elevation is be…
country_iso2	string	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code	AL
country_iso3	string	ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code (preferred join key)	ALB
country_name	string	English country name as published by the World Bank	Albania
year	int64	Year of observation (CE)	2015
value	float64	Observed indicator value	991.338337449
unit	string	Unit of measurement (often empty)	``
obs_status	string	World Bank observation-status flag (e.g. preliminary, estimated)	``

Data quality & caveats

• Records with null observations are filtered out at ingest.
• Indicator coverage varies by country and year; not every (indicator × country × year) combination is present.
• Some countries appear under multiple aggregate groupings in WB; this dataset is filtered to individual sovereign states only.

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepeurope/europe-worldbank-climate-change")
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[df["indicator_id"] == "AG.LND.EL5M.RU.K2"]
          .sort_values("year"))
sample.plot(x="year", y="value", title="AG.LND.EL5M.RU.K2")

Pivot to country × year matrix

matrix = (df[df["indicator_id"] == "AG.LND.EL5M.RU.K2"]
          .pivot_table(index="year", columns="country_iso3", values="value"))
print(matrix.tail())

Citation

@misc{europe_worldbank_climate_change_2025,
  title        = {Climate Change — Europe (World Bank WDI)},
  author       = {World Bank Group},
  year         = {2025},
  url          = {https://databank.worldbank.org/source/world-development-indicators},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Europe},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepeurope/europe-worldbank-climate-change}}
}

License

Released under cc-by-4.0.

Original data © World Bank Group. 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 2026-05-24 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://databank.worldbank.org/source/world-development-indicators