electricsheepeurope/europe-who-mean-systolic-blood-pressure-bp05

Mean systolic blood pressure (crude estimate) | Europe (WHO GHO)

🇪🇺 2,340 observations · 39 Europe countries · 1980–2009 · Repackaged by [Electric Sheep Europe](https://huggingface.co/electricsheepeurope)

TL;DR

This dataset contains 2,340 observations of Mean systolic blood pressure (crude estimate) data across 39 Europe countries, spanning 1980–2009, covering 1 distinct indicators.

About the source

• —Source: WHO Global Health Observatory
• —Publisher: World Health Organization
• —License: cc-by-4.0
• —Topic: Mean systolic blood pressure (crude estimate)

Geographic coverage

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

Indicators (sample)

• —BP_05

Schema

Disaggregation dimensions

The following columns provide disaggregation dimensions:

• —`dim1_type` (1 unique values): SEX
• —`dim1` (2 unique values): SEX_FMLE, SEX_MLE
• —`dim2_type` (1 unique values): AGEGROUP
• —`dim2` (1 unique values): AGEGROUP_AGE25-PLUS

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepeurope/europe-who-mean-systolic-blood-pressure-bp05")
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[df["indicator_code"] == "BP_05"]
          .sort_values("year"))
sample.plot(x="year", y="value_numeric", title="BP_05")

Pivot to country × year matrix

matrix = (df[df["indicator_code"] == "BP_05"]
          .pivot_table(index="year", columns="country_iso3", values="value_numeric"))
print(matrix.tail())

Citation

@misc{europe_who_mean_systolic_blood_pressure_bp05_2009,
  title        = {Mean systolic blood pressure (crude estimate) | Europe (WHO GHO)},
  author       = {World Health Organization},
  year         = {2009},
  url          = {https://www.who.int/data/gho},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Europe},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepeurope/europe-who-mean-systolic-blood-pressure-bp05}}
}

License

Released under cc-by-4.0.

Original data © World Health Organization. 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 2026-05-31 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://www.who.int/data/gho