Worldwide Data

The list will include data sources that contain datasets from numerous country of the world. For country specific data please check the other categories of the site.

• UK Data Service: An attempt to merge various datasets from different sources into one platform. Includes all types of data.


• ACRN: Anticorruption Research Network Databases contain corruption related data.


• TI: Transparency International - Corruption Indeces.


• UN: Databases from the United Nations.


• OECD: Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development Databases.


• OECD-Library: Contains all the stats, graphs, tables used in the OECD publications.


• ILO: International Labour Organisation.


• IMF: International Monetary Fund. All the indebted nations are certainly in here!


• World Bank: Large international datasets.


• The Economist: Useful financial and economic data from the leading magazine.


• Economist Intelligence Unit: Financial Data and Dynamic Forecasts can be retrieved freely or purchased.


• PippaNoris Data: Data from the JFK Harvard School of Government with political datasets.


• DataBankProject: The oldest living panel data since 1815. Can be retrieved by emailing the foundation.


• Guardian: The data repository of the british newspaper.


• UNESCO: Cultural, Educational and Social Data.


• World Bank Financial Data: A beta version of the latest datasets of the world bank.


• WHO: World Health Organisation Statistics.


• RoperCenter: International Public Opinion Datasets and more.


• Google Data Lab


• Google Fusion Tables


• YouGov: The revolutionary panels (unfortunately only archive reports are available).


• Index of Economic Freedom: The well known index of free market performance by the conservative Heritage Foundation.


• World Values Survey: A survey quantifying cultural aspects of societies.


• Freedom House Indeces: Data on Freedom of the world, press, net.


• Open Budget Index:  Independent, comparative, regular measure of budget transparency and accountability.


• Rule of Law Index: Assess a nation’s adherence to the rule of law.


• Global Financial Integrity: Information regarding illicit financial transactions.


• Global Integrity Report: Data on Practices in governance and assessment of the public sector.


• Global Assessment Portal: Exceptional Guide Containing indicators for good governance characteristics.


• Polity Project: Political Regime Characteristics and Transitions since 1800.


• Birch Index of Electoral Malpractice


• World Bank Governance Indicators: Measures of Quality in Governance for 213 Economies since 1996.


• Social Policy Data: compilation of datasets on social policy systems, tax systems, public opinion, quality of govornance and political indicators.


• Public Administration Data: unique data set on the structure and behaviour of public administration, based on a web survey. of 973 country experts from 126 countriesaround the world.


• Graduate Institute of Geneva: Contains an interesting list of datasets of macroeconomic origin.


• Aid Data: Search for Foreign Aid data.


• Right to Information Index: A comparative index examining the openness to infrmation for 80+ countries.


• Joint External Debt Hub: Free Database with debt related datasets gathered from the IMF, World Bank, BIS, and OECD.


• Sustainable Governance Indicators: OECD Cross National Survey of Governance. Measurement of Equality and Freedom.


• Bribe Payer Index: The 2011 index with the private supply side of corruption, published by the Transparency International.


• Human Development Index trends


• Gap Minder: A wide list of world health related datasets


• Buzz Data: An interesting site that attempts to promote the use of data for storytelling and research. Good collection of various datasets too!


• RevenueWatch: Dataset on transparency of mineral, oil, and gas exporting countries.


• Data Gov: Graphical Representation of Data and option to extract the datasets


• Factual: Unique data sets ranging from health,education, and entertainment.


• DataMarket: An Icelandic treasure in data exploring and sharing. Searches through many different data providers.


• Infochimps: Another attempt to offer a unified searching platform for data


• The DataHub: The most extensive open data initiative


• EH.net: Rich historical time series for a variety of countries


• DoingBusiness: Business related data. Easiness to start a business, taxation, credit details etc per country


• Ponemon: Data and Internet security related information. What is the cost of data for businesses?


• Survey Question Bank: Search for major surveys conducted by various national and internation organisations


• Internation Social Survey Programme: Archives and data from a wide range of surveys


• PRS: Political Risk Services


• Better Life Index: Published by the OECD categorising coutnries by aspects of good life


• Publish What You Fund Index: Country indicators on aid transparency


• OpenSpending.org


• Quality of Government: Compiled by the Quality of Government Institute


• Quandl: Datasets for Finance and Economics


• Archigos: Rich Data Base on Political Leaders from 1875-2004 for 150+ countries