electricsheepasia/asia-owid-armed-forces-personnel-percent

Armed Forces Personnel Percent | Asia (Our World in Data)

🌏 1,453 observations · 48 Asia countries · 1985–2020 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Asia

TL;DR

This dataset contains 1,453 observations of Armed Forces Personnel Percent data across 48 Asia countries, spanning 1985–2020.

About the source

• Source: Our World in Data
• Publisher: Our World in Data
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: Armed Forces Personnel Percent

Geographic coverage

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

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
ARE	33	1985	2020
BRN	33	1985	2020
BHR	33	1985	2020
BGD	33	1985	2020
IND	33	1985	2020
IRN	33	1985	2020
IDN	33	1985	2020
CHN	33	1985	2020
IRQ	33	1985	2020
ISR	33	1985	2020
LAO	33	1985	2020
KWT	33	1985	2020
KHM	33	1985	2020
KOR	33	1985	2020
JPN	33	1985	2020
...	33 more countries

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
country_name	string	—	Afghanistan
country_iso3	string	—	AFG
year	int64	—	1985
Armed forces personnel (% of total population)	float64	—	0.41131178
World region according to OWID	string	—	Asia

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepasia/asia-owid-armed-forces-personnel-percent")
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="Armed forces personnel (% of total population)")

Citation

@misc{asia_owid_armed_forces_personnel_percent_2020,
  title        = {Armed Forces Personnel Percent | Asia (Our World in Data)},
  author       = {Our World in Data},
  year         = {2020},
  url          = {https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/armed-forces-personnel-percent},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Asia},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepasia/asia-owid-armed-forces-personnel-percent}}
}

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

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Provenance: ingested 2026-06-02 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/armed-forces-personnel-percent