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Resources · Online database / CSV / API

FAOSTAT

FAOSTAT provides food and agriculture statistics for more than 245 countries and territories, with time series from 1961 covering production, trade, food security, land use and emissions. It is a core data…

Version Continuously updated (1961 to present; see the official site)View resource →
Resources · CSV / XLSX / online visualisation

Gapminder Data and Visualisation Tools

Gapminder offers open development data compiled from the World Bank and other sources together with interactive visualisation tools. With the mission of correcting misconceptions with data, it suits teaching and preliminary exploration;…

Version Continuously updated (no fixed version number)View resource →
Resources · SPARQL query / JSON / data export

Wikidata

Wikidata is one of the world’s largest open structured knowledge bases. Its entity-relationship data are contributed to the public domain under CC0, with SPARQL querying and bulk export, making it infrastructure for…

Version Continuously updated (no fixed version number)View resource →
Resources · Online visualisation / data download / articles

Our World in Data

Our World in Data presents long-term global trends on major issues — poverty, health, energy, climate, education, war and peace — through open data and visualisation, with charts and articles open for…

Version Continuously updated (no fixed version number)View resource →
Resources · CSV / R / Stata

V-Dem Dataset (Varieties of Democracy)

V-Dem provides multidimensional measurements of democracy for countries worldwide, including electoral, liberal, participatory and deliberative indices, widely used in comparative research on political development and governance. Released under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Version v16 (current official version, continuously updated)View resource →
Resources · Online database / CSV / API / Excel

World Bank Open Data

World Bank Open Data provides development indicators for more than 200 countries and regions, covering poverty, growth, trade, education, health and the environment. The data are open under CC BY 4.0 and…

Version Follows the latest official release (continuously updated)View resource →