electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-external-debt-as-a-share-of-gni

External Debt As A Share Of Gni | Africa (Our World in Data)

🌍 1,156 observations · 49 Africa countries · 2000–2023 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 1,156 observations of External Debt As A Share Of Gni data across 49 Africa countries, spanning 2000–2023.

About the source

• Source: Our World in Data
• Publisher: Our World in Data
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: External Debt As A Share Of Gni

Geographic coverage

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

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
AGO	24	2000	2023
BDI	24	2000	2023
BEN	24	2000	2023
BFA	24	2000	2023
BWA	24	2000	2023
CAF	24	2000	2023
CIV	24	2000	2023
CMR	24	2000	2023
COD	24	2000	2023
COG	24	2000	2023
COM	24	2000	2023
CPV	24	2000	2023
DJI	24	2000	2023
DZA	24	2000	2023
EGY	24	2000	2023
...	34 more countries

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
country_name	string	—	Algeria
country_iso3	string	—	DZA
year	int64	—	2000
External debt stocks as a proportion of GNI (%)	float64	—	48.89

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-external-debt-as-a-share-of-gni")
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 debt stocks as a proportion of GNI (%)")

Citation

@misc{africa_owid_external_debt_as_a_share_of_gni_2023,
  title        = {External Debt As A Share Of Gni | Africa (Our World in Data)},
  author       = {Our World in Data},
  year         = {2023},
  url          = {https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/external-debt-as-a-share-of-gni},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-external-debt-as-a-share-of-gni}}
}

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-debt-as-a-share-of-gni