electricsheepasia/asia-owid-yearly-number-of-objects-launched-into-outer-space

Yearly Number Of Objects Launched Into Outer Space | Asia (Our World in Data)

🌏 351 observations · 33 Asia countries · 1970–2025 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Asia

TL;DR

This dataset contains 351 observations of Yearly Number Of Objects Launched Into Outer Space data across 33 Asia countries, spanning 1970–2025.

About the source

• Source: Our World in Data
• Publisher: Our World in Data
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: Yearly Number Of Objects Launched Into Outer Space

Geographic coverage

33 Asia countries · top rows shown below, sorted by row count:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
JPN	55	1970	2025
CHN	50	1970	2025
IND	41	1975	2025
ISR	23	1988	2025
IDN	21	1976	2025
KOR	20	1992	2025
TUR	18	1994	2025
ARE	16	2000	2025
THA	15	1993	2025
TWN	10	1999	2025
SGP	10	1998	2025
IRN	10	2005	2025
MYS	8	1996	2023
SAU	8	2000	2025
PAK	7	1990	2025
...	18 more countries

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
country_name	string	—	Armenia
country_iso3	string	—	ARM
year	int64	—	2022
Annual number of objects launched into outer space	int64	—	1

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepasia/asia-owid-yearly-number-of-objects-launched-into-outer-space")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

indonesia = df[df["country_iso3"] == "IDN"]

Time-series for a single indicator

sample = df.sort_values("year")
sample.plot(x="year", y="Annual number of objects launched into outer space")

Citation

@misc{asia_owid_yearly_number_of_objects_launched_into_outer_space_2025,
  title        = {Yearly Number Of Objects Launched Into Outer Space | Asia (Our World in Data)},
  author       = {Our World in Data},
  year         = {2025},
  url          = {https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/yearly-number-of-objects-launched-into-outer-space},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Asia},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepasia/asia-owid-yearly-number-of-objects-launched-into-outer-space}}
}

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 Asia repackaging.

About Electric Sheep

Electric Sheep Asia is part of the Electric Sheep mission: a unified, ML-ready data layer for Asia 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/electricsheepasia

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Provenance: ingested 2026-06-13 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/yearly-number-of-objects-launched-into-outer-space