electricsheepeurope/europe-owid-days-of-vacation-and-holidays

Days Of Vacation And Holidays | Europe (Our World in Data)

🇪🇺 76 observations · 11 Europe countries · 1870–2000 · Repackaged by [Electric Sheep Europe](https://huggingface.co/electricsheepeurope)

TL;DR

This dataset contains 76 observations of Days Of Vacation And Holidays data across 11 Europe countries, spanning 1870–2000.

About the source

• —Source: Our World in Data
• —Publisher: Our World in Data
• —License: cc-by-4.0
• —Topic: Days Of Vacation And Holidays

Geographic coverage

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

Schema

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepeurope/europe-owid-days-of-vacation-and-holidays")
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="Vacation days per year")

Citation

@misc{europe_owid_days_of_vacation_and_holidays_2000,
  title        = {Days Of Vacation And Holidays | Europe (Our World in Data)},
  author       = {Our World in Data},
  year         = {2000},
  url          = {https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/days-of-vacation-and-holidays},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Europe},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepeurope/europe-owid-days-of-vacation-and-holidays}}
}

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

Provenance: ingested 2026-06-03 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/days-of-vacation-and-holidays