electricsheepeurope/europe-owid-yearly-number-of-objects-launched-into-outer-space

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

🇪🇺 435 observations · 33 Europe countries · 1957–2025 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Europe

TL;DR

This dataset contains 435 observations of Yearly Number Of Objects Launched Into Outer Space data across 33 Europe countries, spanning 1957–2025.

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

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
RUS	69	1957	2025
FRA	43	1965	2025
DEU	43	1969	2025
GBR	40	1962	2025
ITA	34	1964	2025
LUX	28	1988	2025
ESP	24	1974	2025
NOR	15	1997	2025
SWE	14	1986	2024
CZE	11	1978	2025
DNK	11	1999	2025
POL	10	2012	2025
FIN	9	2017	2025
NLD	9	1974	2023
UKR	8	1995	2023
...	18 more countries

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
country_name	string	—	Austria
country_iso3	string	—	AUT
year	int64	—	2013
Annual number of objects launched into outer space	int64	—	2

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

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

Filter to one country

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

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{europe_owid_yearly_number_of_objects_launched_into_outer_space_2025,
  title        = {Yearly Number Of Objects Launched Into Outer Space | Europe (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 Europe},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepeurope/europe-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 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

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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