electricsheepeurope/europe-owid-years-colonized

Years Colonized | Europe (Our World in Data)

🇪🇺 4,488 observations · 8 Europe countries · 1462–2022 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Europe

TL;DR

This dataset contains 4,488 observations of Years Colonized data across 8 Europe countries, spanning 1462–2022.

About the source

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

Geographic coverage

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

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
BEL	561	1462	2022
DEU	561	1462	2022
ESP	561	1462	2022
FRA	561	1462	2022
GBR	561	1462	2022
ITA	561	1462	2022
NLD	561	1462	2022
PRT	561	1462	2022

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
country_name	string	—	Belgium
country_iso3	string	—	BEL
year	int64	—	1462
Years a country was an European overseas colony	int64	—	0
World region according to OWID	string	—	Europe

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepeurope/europe-owid-years-colonized")
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="Years a country was an European overseas colony")

Citation

@misc{europe_owid_years_colonized_2022,
  title        = {Years Colonized | Europe (Our World in Data)},
  author       = {Our World in Data},
  year         = {2022},
  url          = {https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/years-colonized},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Europe},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepeurope/europe-owid-years-colonized}}
}

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-colonized