This page lists in one place the authoritative sources of freely available, global open data on a wide range of topics - from Agriculture to Urban Development.

Most international country-level data is collected by specialized agencies of the United Nations (such as WHO for health data), and other intergovernmental organizations such as OECD. See especially World Bank Data and UN data which compile data from many different sources.

See also: city or sub-national data | create interactive online dashboards using this data

COUNTR​Y LEV​EL DATA

All topics - compiled from various sources:

• ​UN data - data search
• UN data explorer - by topic, source and dataset
• World Bank - Interactive Explorer (7000+ indicators visualized)
• World Bank Data

Agriculture and Food:

• FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)
• Food Security CASE Maps: Interactive Climate, Agriculture, and Socio-Economic Maps - IFPRI (International Food Policy Research Institute)

Demography & Population

• UN-DESA Population Division
• UN-DESA Population Division - Interactive Population Data
• UN-DESA Population Census Datasets
• WHO (World Health Organization)

Drugs and Crime

• UNODC (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime)

Economy & Development

• IMF Data and Statistics (International Monetary Fund)
• UNDP (United Nations Development Programme - Human Development Report)
• World Bank Data

Education

• ​UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
• World Bank EdStats (Interactive)
• Educational Achievement & Quality:
  • IEA (International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement)
  • PISA (OECD Programme for International Student Assessment)
  • SACMEQ (Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality)
  • LLECE (Latin American Laboratory for Assessment of the Quality of Education)

Environment

• OECD Green Growth Indicators
• UNDP (United Nations Development Programme - Human Development Report)
• WMO (World Meteorological Organization)

Gender

• OECD Gender Data Portal
• UNDP (United Nations Development Programme - Human Development Report)
• World Bank GenderStats

Health

• INDEPTHStats: Detailed health and demographic indicators for 20 low- and middle-income countries.
• UNAIDS (United Nations Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS)
• UNICEF - Childinfo (United Nations Children's Fund)

ICT

• ITU (International Telecommunication Union)

Intellectual Property

• WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization)

Labour, Employment

• ILO (International Labour Organization)

Language

• CIA World Factbook
• Ethnologue

Science and Technology

• OECD Science, Technology and R&D Statistics
• World Bank

Urban Development:

• World Bank

CITY AND R​EGIONAL (SUB-NA​TIONAL) DATA

Data at city and sub-national levels remains scarce. The list of data sources below will be updated as more data becomes available. To create interactive maps or infographics at sub-national or city level, you can use the 'shapefile map' edition included in StatPlanet, or StatTrends for interactive graphs. See also - creating point or city maps.

All topics

• Eurostat - Regions, Metropolitan regions and Cities - European Commission
• OECD Stats - Metropolitan areas
• City open data portals:
  • Amsterdam
  • Chicago
  • London
  • Melbourne
  • Paris
  • Nantes
  • Rennes
  • San Francisco
  • Vienna
  • Vancouver

Demography & Population:

• City level:
  • City population by sex and city type - UNSD Demographic Statistics | UN Statistics Division
• Sub-national level:
  • Gridded population of the world - Columbia Universtiy

Environment:

• City level:
  • Fuel used for cooking - by occupied housing units - UNSD Demographic Statistics | UN Statistics Division
  • Solid waste disposal - by occupied housing units - UNSD Demographic Statistics | UN Statistics Division

Health

• City level:
  • Type of toilet - by occupied housing units - UNSD Demographic Statistics | UN Statistics Division
  • Availability of piped water - by occupied housing units - UNSD Demographic Statistics | UN Statistics Division
• Sub-national level:
  • Global sub-national infant mortality rates - Columbia University

ICT

• City level:
  • Household availability of TV, fixed telephone, mobile, PC, Internet access - UNSD Demographic Statistics | UN Statistics Division

Poverty

• City level:
  • Povery indicators by occupied housing units: lighting, piped water, ICT, solid waste disposal, construction material of outer walls - UNSD Demographic Statistics | UN Statistics Division