electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-external-balance-on-goods-and-services-as-a-percent-of-gdp

External Balance On Goods And Services As A Percent Of Gdp | Africa (Our World in Data)

🌍 2,465 observations · 51 Africa countries · 1960–2024 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 2,465 observations of External Balance On Goods And Services As A Percent Of Gdp data across 51 Africa countries, spanning 1960–2024.

About the source

• Source: Our World in Data
• Publisher: Our World in Data
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: External Balance On Goods And Services As A Percent Of Gdp

Geographic coverage

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

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
BEN	65	1960	2024
BFA	65	1960	2024
BWA	65	1960	2024
GAB	65	1960	2024
CAF	65	1960	2024
CIV	65	1960	2024
COG	65	1960	2024
EGY	65	1960	2024
GHA	65	1960	2024
DZA	65	1960	2024
ZAF	65	1960	2024
RWA	65	1960	2024
SDN	65	1960	2024
SEN	65	1960	2024
TCD	65	1960	2024
...	36 more countries

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
country_name	string	—	Algeria
country_iso3	string	—	DZA
year	int64	—	1960
External balance on goods and services (% of GDP)	float64	—	-28.10046

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-external-balance-on-goods-and-services-as-a-percent-of-gdp")
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="External balance on goods and services (% of GDP)")

Citation

@misc{africa_owid_external_balance_on_goods_and_services_as_a_percent_of_gdp_2024,
  title        = {External Balance On Goods And Services As A Percent Of Gdp | Africa (Our World in Data)},
  author       = {Our World in Data},
  year         = {2024},
  url          = {https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/external-balance-on-goods-and-services-as-a-percent-of-gdp},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-external-balance-on-goods-and-services-as-a-percent-of-gdp}}
}

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/external-balance-on-goods-and-services-as-a-percent-of-gdp