electricsheepeurope/europe-ilo-pop-2pop-sex-nb-population-by-sex-un-estimates-and-projections-jul

Population by sex -- UN estimates and projections, July 2024 (thousands) | Europe (ILOSTAT)

🇪🇺 4,797 observations · 39 Europe countries · 1990–2030 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Europe

TL;DR

This dataset contains 4,797 observations of Population data across 39 Europe countries, spanning 1990–2030, covering 1 distinct indicators.

About the source

ILOSTAT is the ILO's central statistics database, the leading global source for labour statistics. It compiles indicators across employment, unemployment, wages, working time, child labour, informal economy, social protection, occupational injuries, and SDG decent work targets — drawing on national labour force surveys, household income surveys, establishment surveys, and administrative records. Coverage spans 200+ economies, with the ILO's Department of Statistics responsible for harmonisation.

• Source: ILOSTAT
• Publisher: International Labour Organization (ILO)
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: Population

Methodology

Data pulled directly from the ILOSTAT REST API at https://rplumber.ilo.org/data/indicator?id=POP_2POP_SEX_NB and filtered to Europe ISO3 country codes. ILOSTAT harmonises raw survey microdata using ICLS (International Conference of Labour Statisticians) definitions; sources are flagged in the source.label column for traceability.

Geographic coverage

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

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
ALB	123	1990	2030
AUT	123	1990	2030
BEL	123	1990	2030
BGR	123	1990	2030
BIH	123	1990	2030
BLR	123	1990	2030
CHE	123	1990	2030
CZE	123	1990	2030
DEU	123	1990	2030
DNK	123	1990	2030
ESP	123	1990	2030
EST	123	1990	2030
FIN	123	1990	2030
FRA	123	1990	2030
GBR	123	1990	2030
...	24 more countries

Indicators (sample)

• POP_2POP_SEX_NB — Population by sex -- UN estimates and projections, July 2024 (thousands)

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
ref_area	string	ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code	ALB
ref_area.label	string	Country name in English	Albania
source	string	ILOSTAT source code (e.g. labour force survey)	XA:2137
source.label	string	Source name in English	ILO - Modelled Estimates
indicator	string	ILOSTAT indicator code	POP_2POP_SEX_NB
indicator.label	string	Indicator name in English	Population by sex -- UN estimates and…
sex	string	Disaggregation by sex (SEX_T = total, SEX_M = male, SEX_F = female)	SEX_T
sex.label	string	—	Total
time	int64	Observation year	2030
obs_value	float64	Observed indicator value (unit varies — see indicator definition)	2276.753

Disaggregation dimensions

The following columns provide disaggregation dimensions:

• sex (3 unique values): SEX_T, SEX_M, SEX_F

Data quality & caveats

• Data is annual frequency. Some indicators also publish monthly or quarterly series — those are not included here.
• When an indicator has multiple sources for the same country×year, the ILO-selected 'best source' is used.
• Disaggregation columns (sex, classif1, classif2) are non-null only when the indicator publishes that breakdown.

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepeurope/europe-ilo-pop-2pop-sex-nb-population-by-sex-un-estimates-and-projections-jul")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

germany = df[df["ref_area"] == "DEU"]

Time-series for a single indicator

sample = (df[df["indicator"] == "POP_2POP_SEX_NB"]
          .sort_values("time"))
sample.plot(x="time", y="obs_value", title="POP_2POP_SEX_NB")

Pivot to country × year matrix

matrix = (df[df["indicator"] == "POP_2POP_SEX_NB"]
          .pivot_table(index="time", columns="ref_area", values="obs_value"))
print(matrix.tail())

Citation

@misc{europe_ilo_pop_2pop_sex_nb_population_by_sex_un_estimates_and_projections_jul_2030,
  title        = {Population by sex -- UN estimates and projections, July 2024 (thousands) | Europe (ILOSTAT)},
  author       = {International Labour Organization (ILO)},
  year         = {2030},
  url          = {https://www.ilo.org/shinyapps/bulkexplorer/?id=POP_2POP_SEX_NB},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Europe},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepeurope/europe-ilo-pop-2pop-sex-nb-population-by-sex-un-estimates-and-projections-jul}}
}

License

Released under cc-by-4.0.

Original data © International Labour Organization (ILO). 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 2026-05-28 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://www.ilo.org/shinyapps/bulkexplorer/?id=POP_2POP_SEX_NB