electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-female-homicide-victims

Female Homicide Victims | Africa (Our World in Data)

🌍 162 observations · 19 Africa countries · 1990–2024 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 162 observations of Female Homicide Victims data across 19 Africa countries, spanning 1990–2024.

About the source

• Source: Our World in Data
• Publisher: Our World in Data
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: Female Homicide Victims

Geographic coverage

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

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
MUS	31	1990	2022
MAR	16	2009	2024
DZA	12	2012	2023
ZAF	12	2006	2022
EGY	11	2004	2021
SYC	10	2004	2014
UGA	10	2008	2023
TZA	10	2010	2020
CPV	9	2011	2020
KEN	9	2014	2022
STP	6	2006	2011
ZWE	6	1990	2022
NAM	4	2018	2021
BDI	4	2013	2016
CMR	4	2015	2020
...	4 more countries

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
country_name	string	—	Algeria
country_iso3	string	—	DZA
year	int64	—	2012
Homicides of female victims	float64	—	52.0
World region according to OWID	string	—	Africa

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-female-homicide-victims")
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="Homicides of female victims")

Citation

@misc{africa_owid_female_homicide_victims_2024,
  title        = {Female Homicide Victims | Africa (Our World in Data)},
  author       = {Our World in Data},
  year         = {2024},
  url          = {https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/female-homicide-victims},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-owid-female-homicide-victims}}
}

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/female-homicide-victims