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Laying Hens Cages And Cage Free | Europe (Our World in Data)

🇪🇺 322 observations · 32 Europe countries · 1996–2025 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Europe

rows countries years license

TL;DR

This dataset contains 322 observations of Laying Hens Cages And Cage Free data across 32 Europe countries, spanning 1996–2025.

About the source

Geographic coverage

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

Country Rows First year Last year
GBR 29 1996 2025
AUT 13 2011 2025
ESP 13 2011 2025
DNK 13 2011 2025
SWE 13 2011 2025
SVK 13 2011 2025
LVA 13 2011 2025
EST 12 2012 2025
SVN 12 2012 2025
ROU 12 2011 2025
POL 12 2011 2025
PRT 12 2012 2024
ITA 12 2012 2025
FIN 12 2011 2025
DEU 12 2011 2025
... 17 more countries

Schema

Column Type Description Example
country_name string — Austria
country_iso3 string — AUT
year int64 — 2011
In cages int64 — 230274
Cage-free float64 — 5452000.0

Usage 

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepeurope/europe-owid-laying-hens-cages-and-cage-free")
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="In cages")

Citation 

@misc{europe_owid_laying_hens_cages_and_cage_free_2025,
  title        = {Laying Hens Cages And Cage Free | Europe (Our World in Data)},
  author       = {Our World in Data},
  year         = {2025},
  url          = {https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/laying-hens-cages-and-cage-free},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Europe},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepeurope/europe-owid-laying-hens-cages-and-cage-free}}
}

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 2026-06-06 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/laying-hens-cages-and-cage-free
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