electricsheepeurope/europe-owid-death-rate-from-cancer-by-sex

Death Rate From Cancer By Sex | Europe (Our World in Data)

🇪🇺 2,046 observations · 39 Europe countries · 1950–2023 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Europe

TL;DR

This dataset contains 2,046 observations of Death Rate From Cancer By Sex data across 39 Europe countries, spanning 1950–2023.

About the source

• Source: Our World in Data
• Publisher: Our World in Data
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: Death Rate From Cancer By Sex

Geographic coverage

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

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
NLD	74	1950	2023
ESP	73	1951	2023
CHE	73	1951	2023
FRA	73	1950	2022
IRL	73	1950	2022
SWE	73	1951	2023
ITA	72	1951	2022
DNK	72	1951	2022
GBR	72	1950	2021
ISL	72	1951	2022
FIN	71	1952	2022
HUN	69	1955	2023
AUT	69	1955	2023
BEL	68	1954	2021
NOR	66	1951	2016
...	24 more countries

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
country_name	string	—	Albania
country_iso3	string	—	ALB
year	int64	—	1987
Men	float64	—	127.92521
Women	float64	—	56.078907

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepeurope/europe-owid-death-rate-from-cancer-by-sex")
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="Men")

Citation

@misc{europe_owid_death_rate_from_cancer_by_sex_2023,
  title        = {Death Rate From Cancer By Sex | Europe (Our World in Data)},
  author       = {Our World in Data},
  year         = {2023},
  url          = {https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rate-from-cancer-by-sex},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Europe},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepeurope/europe-owid-death-rate-from-cancer-by-sex}}
}

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 2026-06-03 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rate-from-cancer-by-sex