electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-gdp-per-capita-world-bank-data-vs-penn-world-table

Gdp Per Capita World Bank Data Vs Penn World Table | Africa (Our World in Data)

🌍 3,355 observations · 53 Africa countries · 1950–2024 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 3,355 observations of Gdp Per Capita World Bank Data Vs Penn World Table data across 53 Africa countries, spanning 1950–2024.

About the source

• Source: Our World in Data
• Publisher: Our World in Data
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: Gdp Per Capita World Bank Data Vs Penn World Table

Geographic coverage

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

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
COD	75	1950	2024
ETH	75	1950	2024
MUS	75	1950	2024
MAR	75	1950	2024
KEN	75	1950	2024
UGA	75	1950	2024
ZAF	75	1950	2024
ZWE	71	1954	2024
MWI	71	1954	2024
ZMB	70	1955	2024
GHA	70	1955	2024
NGA	68	1950	2024
BFA	66	1959	2024
GIN	66	1959	2024
BEN	66	1959	2024
...	38 more countries

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
country_name	string	—	Algeria
country_iso3	string	—	DZA
year	int64	—	1960
World Bank data	float64	—	11728.546
Penn World Table data	float64	—	12589.238
Population	float64	—	11424930.0
World region according to OWID	string	—	Africa

Data quality & caveats

• World Bank data column has 46.5% null values (filtered to non-null in this dataset).

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-gdp-per-capita-world-bank-data-vs-penn-world-table")
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="World Bank data")

Citation

@misc{africa_owid_gdp_per_capita_world_bank_data_vs_penn_world_table_2024,
  title        = {Gdp Per Capita World Bank Data Vs Penn World Table | Africa (Our World in Data)},
  author       = {Our World in Data},
  year         = {2024},
  url          = {https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-per-capita-world-bank-data-vs-penn-world-table},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-gdp-per-capita-world-bank-data-vs-penn-world-table}}
}

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/gdp-per-capita-world-bank-data-vs-penn-world-table