electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-annual-change-forest-area

Annual Change Forest Area | Africa (Our World in Data)

🌍 1,890 observations · 54 Africa countries · 1991–2025 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 1,890 observations of Annual Change Forest Area data across 54 Africa countries, spanning 1991–2025.

About the source

• Source: Our World in Data
• Publisher: Our World in Data
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: Annual Change Forest Area

Geographic coverage

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

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
AGO	35	1991	2025
BDI	35	1991	2025
BEN	35	1991	2025
BFA	35	1991	2025
BWA	35	1991	2025
CAF	35	1991	2025
CIV	35	1991	2025
CMR	35	1991	2025
COD	35	1991	2025
COG	35	1991	2025
COM	35	1991	2025
CPV	35	1991	2025
DJI	35	1991	2025
DZA	35	1991	2025
EGY	35	1991	2025
...	39 more countries

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
country_name	string	—	Algeria
country_iso3	string	—	DZA
year	int64	—	1991
Annual change in forest area	float64	—	-673.999

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-annual-change-forest-area")
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="Annual change in forest area")

Citation

@misc{africa_owid_annual_change_forest_area_2025,
  title        = {Annual Change Forest Area | Africa (Our World in Data)},
  author       = {Our World in Data},
  year         = {2025},
  url          = {https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-change-forest-area},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-annual-change-forest-area}}
}

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 2026-06-01 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-change-forest-area