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Global Cropland | Asia (Our World in Data) 🌏 6,161 observations · 49 Asia countries · -10000–2025 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Asia TL;DR This dataset contains 6,161 observations of Global Cropland data across 49 Asia countries, spanning -10000–2025. About the source Source: Our World in Data Publisher: Our World in Data License: cc-by-4.0 Topic: Global Cropland Geographic coverage 49 Asia countries · top rows shown below… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepasia/asia-owid-global-cropland.

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Global Cropland | Asia (Our World in Data)

🌏 6,161 observations · 49 Asia countries · -10000–2025 · Repackaged by [Electric Sheep Asia](https://huggingface.co/electricsheepasia)

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TL;DR

This dataset contains 6,161 observations of Global Cropland data across 49 Asia countries, spanning -10000–2025.

About the source

Geographic coverage

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

CountryRowsFirst yearLast year
AFG128-100002025
ARE128-100002025
ARM128-100002025
AZE128-100002025
BGD128-100002025
BHR128-100002025
BRN128-100002025
BTN128-100002025
CHN128-100002025
CYP128-100002025
GEO128-100002025
IDN128-100002025
IND128-100002025
IRN128-100002025
IRQ128-100002025
...34 more countries

Schema

ColumnTypeDescriptionExample
country_namestring—Afghanistan
country_iso3string—AFG
yearint64—-10000
Taylor and Rising (2021)float64—351163.6
UN FAOfloat64—7750000.0
HYDE 3.5 (Goldewijk et al.)float64—0.0

Data quality & caveats

  • —Taylor and Rising (2021) column has 82.1% null values (filtered to non-null in this dataset).

Usage

python
from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepasia/asia-owid-global-cropland")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

python
indonesia = df[df["country_iso3"] == "IDN"]

Time-series for a single indicator

python
sample = df.sort_values("year")
sample.plot(x="year", y="Taylor and Rising (2021)")

Citation

bibtex
@misc{asia_owid_global_cropland_2025,
  title        = {Global Cropland | Asia (Our World in Data)},
  author       = {Our World in Data},
  year         = {2025},
  url          = {https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-cropland},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Asia},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepasia/asia-owid-global-cropland}}
}

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 Asia repackaging.

About Electric Sheep

Electric Sheep Asia is part of the Electric Sheep mission: a unified, ML-ready data layer for Asia 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/electricsheepasia


Provenance: ingested 2026-06-08 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-cropland