electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-fertilizer-per-hectare

Fertilizer Per Hectare | Africa (Our World in Data)

🌍 2,858 observations · 53 Africa countries · 1961–2023 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 2,858 observations of Fertilizer Per Hectare data across 53 Africa countries, spanning 1961–2023.

About the source

• Source: Our World in Data
• Publisher: Our World in Data
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: Fertilizer Per Hectare

Geographic coverage

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

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
BEN	63	1961	2023
BFA	63	1961	2023
CMR	63	1961	2023
CIV	63	1961	2023
CAF	63	1961	2023
EGY	63	1961	2023
GHA	63	1961	2023
DZA	63	1961	2023
ZWE	63	1961	2023
ZAF	63	1961	2023
ZMB	63	1961	2023
MWI	63	1961	2023
NGA	63	1961	2023
MLI	63	1961	2023
MOZ	63	1961	2023
...	38 more countries

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
country_name	string	—	Algeria
country_iso3	string	—	DZA
year	int64	—	1961
Nitrogen	float64	—	1.27
Phosphorous	float64	—	3.54
Potassium	float64	—	2.12

Data quality & caveats

• Nitrogen column has 0.9% null values (filtered to non-null in this dataset).

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-fertilizer-per-hectare")
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="Nitrogen")

Citation

@misc{africa_owid_fertilizer_per_hectare_2023,
  title        = {Fertilizer Per Hectare | Africa (Our World in Data)},
  author       = {Our World in Data},
  year         = {2023},
  url          = {https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/fertilizer-per-hectare},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-fertilizer-per-hectare}}
}

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/fertilizer-per-hectare