electricsheepeurope/europe-owid-youth-mortality-rate

Youth Mortality Rate | Europe (Our World in Data)

🇪🇺 2,414 observations · 42 Europe countries · 1950–2024 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Europe

TL;DR

This dataset contains 2,414 observations of Youth Mortality Rate data across 42 Europe countries, spanning 1950–2024.

About the source

• Source: Our World in Data
• Publisher: Our World in Data
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: Youth Mortality Rate

Geographic coverage

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

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
CHE	75	1950	2024
SWE	75	1950	2024
NOR	75	1950	2024
NLD	75	1950	2024
IRL	75	1950	2024
ITA	75	1950	2024
FRA	75	1950	2024
GBR	75	1950	2024
ESP	75	1950	2024
DNK	75	1950	2024
FIN	74	1951	2024
BEL	72	1953	2024
PRT	71	1954	2024
HUN	71	1954	2024
AUT	71	1954	2024
...	27 more countries

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
country_name	string	—	Albania
country_iso3	string	—	ALB
year	int64	—	1990
Under-fifteen mortality rate	float64	—	4.6857743
GDP per capita	float64	—	5560.857
Population	float64	—	3277965.0
World region according to OWID	string	—	Europe

Data quality & caveats

• Under-fifteen mortality rate column has 1.7% null values (filtered to non-null in this dataset).

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepeurope/europe-owid-youth-mortality-rate")
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.sort_values("year")
sample.plot(x="year", y="Under-fifteen mortality rate")

Citation

@misc{europe_owid_youth_mortality_rate_2024,
  title        = {Youth Mortality Rate | Europe (Our World in Data)},
  author       = {Our World in Data},
  year         = {2024},
  url          = {https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/youth-mortality-rate},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Europe},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepeurope/europe-owid-youth-mortality-rate}}
}

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 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 2026-06-13 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/youth-mortality-rate