electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-food-supply-vs-life-expectancy

Food Supply Vs Life Expectancy | Africa (Our World in Data)

🌍 4,010 observations · 54 Africa countries · 1947–2023 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 4,010 observations of Food Supply Vs Life Expectancy data across 54 Africa countries, spanning 1947–2023.

About the source

• Source: Our World in Data
• Publisher: Our World in Data
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: Food Supply Vs Life Expectancy

Geographic coverage

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

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
EGY	76	1947	2023
DZA	76	1947	2023
ZAF	76	1947	2023
TUN	76	1947	2023
MAR	76	1947	2023
ETH	75	1947	2023
MDG	75	1947	2023
UGA	75	1947	2023
TZA	75	1947	2023
BWA	74	1950	2023
CAF	74	1950	2023
COM	74	1950	2023
COD	74	1950	2023
CMR	74	1950	2023
DJI	74	1950	2023
...	39 more countries

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
country_name	string	—	Algeria
country_iso3	string	—	DZA
year	int64	—	1947
Life expectancy at birth	float64	—	42.679
Caloric supply	float64	—	1279.0
Population	float64	—	8604011.0
World region according to OWID	string	—	Africa

Data quality & caveats

• Life expectancy at birth column has 0.3% null values (filtered to non-null in this dataset).

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-food-supply-vs-life-expectancy")
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="Life expectancy at birth")

Citation

@misc{africa_owid_food_supply_vs_life_expectancy_2023,
  title        = {Food Supply Vs Life Expectancy | Africa (Our World in Data)},
  author       = {Our World in Data},
  year         = {2023},
  url          = {https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/food-supply-vs-life-expectancy},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-food-supply-vs-life-expectancy}}
}

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 2026-06-03 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/food-supply-vs-life-expectancy