README.md

---
license: cc-by-4.0
language:
- en
task_categories:
- tabular-classification
- tabular-regression
- time-series-forecasting
multilinguality: monolingual
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
tags:
- tabular
- europe
- our-world-in-data
- lgbt-rights-index
- owid
- long-run-series
- time-series
pretty_name: "Lgbt Rights Index | Europe (Our World in Data)"
---

# Lgbt Rights Index | Europe (Our World in Data)

🇪🇺 **1,247 observations** · **43 Europe countries** · **1991–2019** · *Repackaged by [Electric Sheep Europe](https://huggingface.co/electricsheepeurope)*

![rows](https://img.shields.io/badge/rows-1,247-blue) ![countries](https://img.shields.io/badge/countries-43-green) ![years](https://img.shields.io/badge/years-1991–2019-orange) ![license](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-cc-by-4.0-lightgrey)

## TL;DR

This dataset contains **1,247 observations** of `Lgbt Rights Index` data across **43 Europe countries**, spanning **1991–2019**.

## About the source

- **Source:** [Our World in Data](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/lgbt-rights-index)
- **Publisher:** Our World in Data
- **License:** [cc-by-4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
- **Topic:** Lgbt Rights Index

## Geographic coverage

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

| Country | Rows | First year | Last year |
|---------|-----:|-----------:|----------:|
| `ALB` | 29 | 1991 | 2019 |
| `AND` | 29 | 1991 | 2019 |
| `AUT` | 29 | 1991 | 2019 |
| `BEL` | 29 | 1991 | 2019 |
| `BGR` | 29 | 1991 | 2019 |
| `BIH` | 29 | 1991 | 2019 |
| `BLR` | 29 | 1991 | 2019 |
| `CHE` | 29 | 1991 | 2019 |
| `CZE` | 29 | 1991 | 2019 |
| `DEU` | 29 | 1991 | 2019 |
| `DNK` | 29 | 1991 | 2019 |
| `ESP` | 29 | 1991 | 2019 |
| `EST` | 29 | 1991 | 2019 |
| `FIN` | 29 | 1991 | 2019 |
| `FRA` | 29 | 1991 | 2019 |
| ... | _28 more countries_ | | |

## Schema

| Column | Type | Description | Example |
|--------|------|-------------|---------|
| `country_name` | `string` | — | `Albania` |
| `country_iso3` | `string` | — | `ALB` |
| `year` | `int64` | — | `1991` |
| `LGBT+ Policy Index` | `float64` | — | `-0.28528816` |

## Usage

```python
from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepeurope/europe-owid-lgbt-rights-index")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())
```

### Filter to one country

```python
germany = df[df["country_iso3"] == "DEU"]
```

### Time-series for a single indicator

```python
sample = df.sort_values("year")
sample.plot(x="year", y="LGBT+ Policy Index")
```

## Citation

```bibtex
@misc{europe_owid_lgbt_rights_index_2019,
  title        = {Lgbt Rights Index | Europe (Our World in Data)},
  author       = {Our World in Data},
  year         = {2019},
  url          = {https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/lgbt-rights-index},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Europe},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepeurope/europe-owid-lgbt-rights-index}}
}
```

## License

Released under [cc-by-4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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](https://huggingface.co/electricsheepeurope)

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_Provenance: ingested 2026-06-06 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/lgbt-rights-index_