electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-agriculture-vs-non-agriculture-share-in-informal-employment

Agriculture Vs Non Agriculture Share In Informal Employment | Africa (Our World in Data)

🌍 164 observations · 44 Africa countries · 2000–2024 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 164 observations of Agriculture Vs Non Agriculture Share In Informal Employment data across 44 Africa countries, spanning 2000–2024.

About the source

• Source: Our World in Data
• Publisher: Our World in Data
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: Agriculture Vs Non Agriculture Share In Informal Employment

Geographic coverage

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

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
ZAF	25	2000	2024
EGY	12	2008	2023
MUS	11	2012	2023
MLI	8	2013	2022
UGA	7	2010	2021
RWA	7	2017	2023
ZMB	7	2017	2023
ZWE	6	2011	2023
CIV	6	2012	2022
AGO	5	2004	2022
BWA	5	2019	2023
SEN	5	2011	2022
NAM	5	2012	2018
BFA	3	2018	2023
MDG	3	2012	2022
...	29 more countries

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
country_name	string	—	Angola
country_iso3	string	—	AGO
year	int64	—	2004
Share of workers in informal employment in the agricultural sector	float64	—	98.47
Share of workers in informal employment in the non-agricultural sector	float64	—	68.22
World region according to OWID	string	—	Africa

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-agriculture-vs-non-agriculture-share-in-informal-employment")
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="Share of workers in informal employment in the agricultural sector")

Citation

@misc{africa_owid_agriculture_vs_non_agriculture_share_in_informal_employment_2024,
  title        = {Agriculture Vs Non Agriculture Share In Informal Employment | Africa (Our World in Data)},
  author       = {Our World in Data},
  year         = {2024},
  url          = {https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/agriculture-vs-non-agriculture-share-in-informal-employment},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-agriculture-vs-non-agriculture-share-in-informal-employment}}
}

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.

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Provenance: ingested 2026-06-01 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/agriculture-vs-non-agriculture-share-in-informal-employment