electricsheepeurope/europe-unicef-immunization

Immunization | Europe (UNICEF)

🇪🇺 13,433 observations · 42 Europe countries · 1980–2024 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Europe

TL;DR

This dataset contains 13,433 observations of Immunization data across 42 Europe countries, spanning 1980–2024, covering 16 distinct indicators.

About the source

• Source: UNICEF Data Warehouse
• Publisher: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: Immunization

Geographic coverage

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

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
ALB	416	1980	2024
BGR	399	1980	2024
PRT	397	1980	2024
POL	388	1980	2024
SWE	379	1980	2024
FRA	355	1980	2024
DEU	354	1980	2024
IRL	354	1980	2024
BEL	347	1980	2024
AUT	346	1980	2024
HUN	346	1980	2024
FIN	342	1980	2024
GRC	338	1980	2024
GBR	338	1980	2024
LVA	338	1992	2024
...	27 more countries

Indicators (sample)

• IM_BCG — Percentage of live births who received bacille Calmette-Guerin (vaccine against tuberculosis)
• IM_DTP1 — Percentage of surviving infants who received the first dose of DTP-containing vaccine
• IM_DTP3 — Percentage of surviving infants who received the third dose of DTP-containing vaccine
• IM_HEPB3 — Percentage of surviving infants who received the third dose of hep B-containing vaccine
• IM_HEPBB — Percentage of live births who received hepatitis-B-containing vaccine within 24 hours of birth
• IM_HIB3 — Percentage of surviving infants who received the third dose of Hib-containing vaccine
• IM_HPV — Percentage of females who received the last dose of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine per national schedule
• IM_IPV1 — Percentage of surviving infants who received the first dose of inactivated polio-containing vaccine
• IM_IPV2 — Percentage of surviving infants who received the second dose of inactivated polio-containing vaccine
• IM_MCV1 — Percentage of surviving infants who received the first dose of measles-containing vaccine
• ... and 6 more indicators

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
REF_AREA	string	—	ALB
Geographic area	string	—	Albania
INDICATOR	string	—	IM_BCG
Indicator	string	—	Percentage of live births who receive…
SEX	string	—	_T
Sex	string	—	Total
TIME_PERIOD	int64	—	1980
OBS_VALUE	int64	—	93
UNIT_MULTIPLIER	int64	—	0
Unit multiplier	string	—	Units
UNIT_MEASURE	string	—	PCNT
Unit of measure	string	—	%
OBS_STATUS	string	—	E
Observation Status	string	—	Estimated value
OBS_FOOTNOTE	string	—	Female target population who received…
DATA_SOURCE	string	—	WHO/UNICEF estimates of national immu…
AGE	string	—	Y0
Current age	string	—	Under 1 year old

Disaggregation dimensions

The following columns provide disaggregation dimensions:

• SEX (1 unique values): _T
• Sex (1 unique values): Total
• AGE (4 unique values): Y0, M12T23, Y15, _T

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepeurope/europe-unicef-immunization")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

germany = df[df["REF_AREA"] == "DEU"]

Time-series for a single indicator

sample = (df[df["INDICATOR"] == "IM_BCG"]
          .sort_values("TIME_PERIOD"))
sample.plot(x="TIME_PERIOD", y="OBS_VALUE", title="IM_BCG")

Pivot to country × year matrix

matrix = (df[df["INDICATOR"] == "IM_BCG"]
          .pivot_table(index="TIME_PERIOD", columns="REF_AREA", values="OBS_VALUE"))
print(matrix.tail())

Citation

@misc{europe_unicef_immunization_2024,
  title        = {Immunization | Europe (UNICEF)},
  author       = {United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)},
  year         = {2024},
  url          = {https://data.unicef.org/},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Europe},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepeurope/europe-unicef-immunization}}
}

License

Released under cc-by-4.0.

Original data © United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). 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

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Provenance: ingested 2026-05-24 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://data.unicef.org/