electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-death-rate-from-alzheimers-other-dementias-ghe

Death Rate From Alzheimers Other Dementias Ghe | Africa (Our World in Data)

🌍 1,188 observations · 54 Africa countries · 2000–2021 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 1,188 observations of Death Rate From Alzheimers Other Dementias Ghe data across 54 Africa countries, spanning 2000–2021.

About the source

• Source: Our World in Data
• Publisher: Our World in Data
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: Death Rate From Alzheimers Other Dementias Ghe

Geographic coverage

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

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
AGO	22	2000	2021
BDI	22	2000	2021
BEN	22	2000	2021
BFA	22	2000	2021
BWA	22	2000	2021
CAF	22	2000	2021
CIV	22	2000	2021
CMR	22	2000	2021
COD	22	2000	2021
COG	22	2000	2021
COM	22	2000	2021
CPV	22	2000	2021
DJI	22	2000	2021
DZA	22	2000	2021
EGY	22	2000	2021
...	39 more countries

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
country_name	string	—	Algeria
country_iso3	string	—	DZA
year	int64	—	2000
Death rate from alzheimer disease and other dementias among both sexes	float64	—	7.3

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-death-rate-from-alzheimers-other-dementias-ghe")
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="Death rate from alzheimer disease and other dementias among both sexes")

Citation

@misc{africa_owid_death_rate_from_alzheimers_other_dementias_ghe_2021,
  title        = {Death Rate From Alzheimers Other Dementias Ghe | Africa (Our World in Data)},
  author       = {Our World in Data},
  year         = {2021},
  url          = {https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rate-from-alzheimers-other-dementias-ghe},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-death-rate-from-alzheimers-other-dementias-ghe}}
}

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 2026-06-05 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rate-from-alzheimers-other-dementias-ghe