electricsheepeurope/europe-owid-years-of-schooling

Years Of Schooling | Europe (Our World in Data)

🇪🇺 1,390 observations · 42 Europe countries · 1990–2023 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Europe

TL;DR

This dataset contains 1,390 observations of Years Of Schooling data across 42 Europe countries, spanning 1990–2023.

About the source

• Source: Our World in Data
• Publisher: Our World in Data
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: Years Of Schooling

Geographic coverage

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

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
ALB	34	1990	2023
AUT	34	1990	2023
DEU	34	1990	2023
BEL	34	1990	2023
BGR	34	1990	2023
CHE	34	1990	2023
CZE	34	1990	2023
EST	34	1990	2023
ESP	34	1990	2023
DNK	34	1990	2023
MDA	34	1990	2023
MKD	34	1990	2023
MLT	34	1990	2023
FIN	34	1990	2023
FRA	34	1990	2023
...	27 more countries

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
country_name	string	—	Albania
country_iso3	string	—	ALB
year	int64	—	1990
Both genders	float64	—	7.3515644

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepeurope/europe-owid-years-of-schooling")
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="Both genders")

Citation

@misc{europe_owid_years_of_schooling_2023,
  title        = {Years Of Schooling | Europe (Our World in Data)},
  author       = {Our World in Data},
  year         = {2023},
  url          = {https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/years-of-schooling},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Europe},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepeurope/europe-owid-years-of-schooling}}
}

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/years-of-schooling