electricsheepasia/asia-owid-life-science-patents-granted-by-technology

Life Science Patents Granted By Technology | Asia (Our World in Data)

🌏 362 observations · 16 Asia countries · 1980–2023 · Repackaged by [Electric Sheep Asia](https://huggingface.co/electricsheepasia)

TL;DR

This dataset contains 362 observations of Life Science Patents Granted By Technology data across 16 Asia countries, spanning 1980–2023.

About the source

• —Source: Our World in Data
• —Publisher: Our World in Data
• —License: cc-by-4.0
• —Topic: Life Science Patents Granted By Technology

Geographic coverage

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

Schema

Data quality & caveats

• —Pharmaceuticals column has 2.8% null values (filtered to non-null in this dataset).

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepasia/asia-owid-life-science-patents-granted-by-technology")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

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

Time-series for a single indicator

sample = df.sort_values("year")
sample.plot(x="year", y="Pharmaceuticals")

Citation

@misc{asia_owid_life_science_patents_granted_by_technology_2023,
  title        = {Life Science Patents Granted By Technology | Asia (Our World in Data)},
  author       = {Our World in Data},
  year         = {2023},
  url          = {https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-science-patents-granted-by-technology},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Asia},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepasia/asia-owid-life-science-patents-granted-by-technology}}
}

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 2026-06-06 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-science-patents-granted-by-technology