electricsheepeurope/europe-owid-country-has-a-statistical-agency

Country Has A Statistical Agency | Europe (Our World in Data)

🇪🇺 4,775 observations · 22 Europe countries · 1750–2015 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Europe

TL;DR

This dataset contains 4,775 observations of Country Has A Statistical Agency data across 22 Europe countries, spanning 1750–2015.

About the source

• Source: Our World in Data
• Publisher: Our World in Data
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: Country Has A Statistical Agency

Geographic coverage

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

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
SWE	266	1750	2015
ESP	248	1768	2015
PRT	248	1768	2015
NOR	247	1769	2015
DNK	247	1769	2015
ITA	246	1770	2015
RUS	227	1789	2015
ROU	227	1789	2015
GBR	227	1789	2015
DEU	227	1789	2015
AUT	227	1789	2015
FRA	227	1789	2015
HUN	226	1790	2015
NLD	223	1789	2015
CHE	218	1798	2015
...	7 more countries

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
country_name	string	—	Austria
country_iso3	string	—	AUT
year	int64	—	1789
Statistical agency operating	int64	—	0

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepeurope/europe-owid-country-has-a-statistical-agency")
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="Statistical agency operating")

Citation

@misc{europe_owid_country_has_a_statistical_agency_2015,
  title        = {Country Has A Statistical Agency | Europe (Our World in Data)},
  author       = {Our World in Data},
  year         = {2015},
  url          = {https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/country-has-a-statistical-agency},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Europe},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepeurope/europe-owid-country-has-a-statistical-agency}}
}

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 2026-06-03 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/country-has-a-statistical-agency