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Browse open data portals, APIs, and specialized catalogs from around the world — curated for journalists, researchers, and data teams.
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Global Food and Nutrition Security Dashboard
The objective of GAFS is to catalyze an agile, immediate, and coordinated response to the unfolding global food and nutrition security crisis as an act of solidarity in support of those most affected. GAFS takes the form of an open "joint forum" to accelerate action in an agile fashion. This forum is intended to be a temporary platform to achieve maximum synergy and complementarity in mounting a short-term response to the unfolding food security crisis and enhancing crisis preparedness.
Interactive ratification status dashboard
See the current status of ratification of international human rights treaties through a comprehensive data visualization tool and inventory portal.
International census data
International harmonized censuses for social, economic, and health research.
MenstruAcción
We are a campaign based on three demands: removal of VAT on menstrual management products, free provision in community spaces and promotion of research and socialization of data on the subject.
Migration Data Portal
The goal of this portal is to centralize access to current and comprehensive migration statistics, providing reliable information on global migration data. It is designed to support policymakers, national statisticians, journalists, and anyone interested in the migration phenomenon, making it easier to navigate the complex landscape of international migration data, which is often scattered across various organizations and agencies.
R4V - Regional Refugees and Migrants Reponse Plan
The Inter-Agency Coordination Platform for Refugees and Migrants (R4V) brings together nearly 200 organizations, including UN agencies, civil society organizations, faith-based entities, and NGOs, among others. These organizations collaborate under the Regional Refugee and Migrant Response Plan (RMRP) for Venezuela in 17 countries across Latin America and the Caribbean. In recent years, the Regional Platform has strengthened the availability and transparency of data, enabling a better understanding of the needs of Venezuelan refugees and migrants in the countries covered by the R4V response, while also facilitating more effective planning and monitoring of the interagency response.
Reports on Education in Bolivia
It presents statistical information on permanent, special and higher education in Bolivia.
UN Treaty Body Database
Allows you to search for documents and information related to the main international human rights treaties.
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Agronet
It is the information and communication network of the Colombian agricultural sector.
Alameda County Open Data
The Alameda County Data Sharing Initiative provides the public with easy online access to records and information about County business, operations, jurisdictions and more. The initiative aims to support the County’s commitment to transparent government and to encourage civic engagement.
Barcelona metropolis open data
Data catalogs presented through tables, maps, educational timelines, and applications, related to topics such as territory, environment, mobility, and social demographics, among others.
Basque Government Open Data
Open Data Euskadi offers data from the Basque Government, its dependent entities, and other provincial and municipal administrations in the Basque Country.
Bogota Open Data Portal
Open data portal of the city of Bogota in Colombia.
Carver County's Open Data Portal
Carver County, Minnesota, provides accessible and open data and information, following the transparency and open government practices.
Central Statistical Office
It provides information by means of statistical graphs on the economy, politics, society, education, development, etc.
Dutch Government Data Registry
It provides assistance in accessing and reuse government data. It helps government organizations open available data and find specific datasets.
Finland Open Data - Avoindata
All Finnish open data in one place. Is a service for publishing and utilising open data for everyone.
INEGI
It is an autonomous public agency responsible for regulating and coordinating the National System of Statistical and Geographic Information, as well as for gathering and disseminating information on Mexico's territory, resources, population and economy, which allows us to learn about the characteristics of our country and assist in decision-making.
Ireland's open data portal
Promoting innovation and transparency through the publication of Irish Public Sector data in open, free and reusable formats. It contains nearly 15,000 datasets published by more than 160 public entities.
L'Hospitalet - Dades Obertes
Open Data Portal of the City Council of L'Hospitalet. It has a data catalog, divided by categories and a repository of resources for the use of the portal by different profiles, including developers.
National Open Data Catalog of Uruguay
It provides access to open data from public agencies, academia, civil society organizations and private companies. Anyone can use the published data freely to tell stories, develop research, visualizations, civic applications and entrepreneurship.
Open Data Colombia
Open data portal of Colombia. It has more than 7200 data from Colombia. The data can be downloaded in different formats and there is a space that shows the use that both public and external entities have given to the data.
Open Data Portal of Argentina
It provides public data in open formats for free use, modification and distribution. The data enables the creation of visualizations, applications and other data tools.
Open Data Portal of Brazil
It is the tool made available by the Government for everyone to find and use public data and information.
Open Data Portal of Chile
It is the centralized open data repository of the State that contains information and statistics of the public sector, for different purposes, such as applications, visualizations or research.
Open Data Portal of Dominican Republic
This website is a central mechanism for accessing the various sources of government data. Its main objective is to make this data easier to find and easier to reuse.
Open Data Portal of Ecuador
It offers open data sets from various public institutions, addressing topics such as economy, environment, health, culture, infrastructure, among others.
Open Data Portal of Guatemala
It is a national platform for the hosting of data from the different State institutions, with the objective of being available to citizens free of charge and easily accessible, in open format for free use and distribution.
Open Data Portal of Mexico
It offers detailed data on areas such as culture, economy, education, and the environment, collected by public organizations.
Open Data Portal of Panama
It makes public data available for free use, re-use and redistribution.
Open Data Portal of Paraguay
It offers database with information on economics, politics, society, development, business and other categories.
Open Data Portal of Peru
It includes information from public sources on topics such as economy, education, culture, finance, and the environment.
Primary Commodity Prices
It collects and provides information on global monetary cooperation, financial stability, international trade, promoting employment and sustainable economic growth, and reducing poverty worldwide.
Public Bases Uniandes School of Economics CEDE Data
Data from the Center for Economic Development Studies (CEDE) at Universidad de los Andes.
Rome Open Data
It stores detailed information about the city of Rome with downloadable databases in CSV format, on topics such as transportation, environment, infrastructure, among others.
Statistics Rwanda data portal
It presents information on educational maps by city, displaying data such as the number of residents and area in square kilometers, among other details.
The Madrid City Council's Open Data Portal
The Madrid City Council's Open Data Portal is dedicated to promoting access to municipal government data and fostering the development of creative tools to engage and serve the citizens of Madrid.
Transparency Portal of El Salvador
Allows the downloading of documents and records from public institutions such as ministries, governments, autonomous governments, hospitals and other agencies.
World Bank Data Catalog
The Data Catalog is designed to make World Bank's development data easy to find, download, use, and share. It includes data from the World Bank's microdata, finances and energy data platforms, as well as datasets from the open data catalog.
Wuppertal Open Data
Open Data Portal of Wuppertal, Germany. It allows downloading data in open formats. It is organized in categories, such as population, health, education, science, etc.
Zaragoza Open Data Catalogue
Open Data portal of the City Council of the city of Zaragoza. It has approximately 215 datasets. They have a Geoportal, documentation repository and a repository of visualizations created by citizens from public data.
Zenodo
It is a repository designed for the preservation and sharing of scientific data, promoting Open Science. It offers secure storage in CERN's Data Centre, immediate assignment of Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) for citation and tracking, instant availability of data upon publication, options for open or restricted access for sensitive data, version control tools, integration with GitHub repositories, and detailed usage statistics.
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Agricultural Marketing Service
It provides information on agriculture and its rules at the global level, along with its respective market.
Bank For International Settlements Statistics
The BIS statistics, compiled in collaboration with central banks and other national authorities, are intended to support the analysis of financial stability, international monetary spillovers, and global liquidity. Data can be downloaded in CSV format.
COVID-19 Open Data from Peru
Public Data Repository related to COVID-19 in Peru.
Census of Population and Housing
The population and housing unit estimates are released on a flow basis throughout each year. Each new series of data (called vintages) incorporates the latest administrative record data, geographic boundaries, and methodology.
Colombia's National Environmental System (SINA)
Colombia's National Environmental System (SINA) provides access to data available for consultation and reuse, aligned with transparency policies and national regulations on public information access and environmental management.
European data
The Publications Office of the European Union is the official provider of publishing services for all EU institutions, bodies, and agencies. It serves as the central access point to the EU's legislative framework, as well as to publications, data, research results, tender notices, and other official information. Through this portal, access is provided to 1,809,081 datasets, organized into 190 catalogs and sourced from 35 countries, along with 551 news pieces, 250 data stories, and 11 courses.
FAO/INFOODS Food Composition Databases
Repository that collects various databases on food composition.
GEO (Gene Expression Omnibus)
GEO is a public repository for functional genomic data that supports data submission according to MIAME (Minimum Information About a Microarray Experiment) standards. It accepts array- and sequence-based data. Tools are provided to help users query and download curated gene expression experiments and profiles.
Global Health Observatory (GHO)
Studies and measurements on health and its development at a global level, accompanied by clear strategies to address these issues. Additionally, interactive and easy-to-understand graphs are included, accessible to all audiences.
Human Development Report (HDR)
Global, regional, and country/territory-level data on key dimensions of human development, with interactive insights and publications.
Human Mortality Database
It contains information about deaths by sex, cause, among other aspects worldwide.
Main Economic Indicators
A global database organized by countries and years, focused on the sustainable management of natural resources such as land, water, air, climate, and genetic resources. Its goal is to benefit both current and future generations.
National Institute of Statistics of Spain
The National Statistics Institute is an autonomous administrative body, with legal personality and its own assets, attached to the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation through the Secretary of State for Economy and Business Support.
Natural disasters in the world
Natural disasters in the world - Statistical data. Natural disasters are defined by the European Environment Agency (EEA) as "violent, sudden and destructive changes in the environment caused not by human activity but by natural phenomena".
Network Repository
This comprehensive and diverse collection of network graph data is essential for research discoveries and serves as a reference for a wide range of applications and domains, such as network science, bioinformatics, machine learning, data mining, physics, and social sciences. It includes relational, attributed, heterogeneous, flow, spatial, and temporal series network data, as well as non-relational datasets for machine learning.
OCDE Statitics
It includes general information on multinationals, the environment, economy, and politics, based on numerical data organized in tables.
Open Data Uganda
It curates, cleans and catalogues public data to give journalists, researchers and others a simple way to search and find public records.
PovcalNet
Interactive computational tool available to carry out calculations on poverty levels, based on available information from the World Bank.
The Dataverse Project
Open source research data repository software.
UN-Habitat Data and Analysis
Urban Data UN-Habitat was a pioneer in the collection of urban indicators data. In 1991, UN-Habitat initiated the Housing Indicators program; this program evolved in 1993, to the Urban Indicators Program, in order to focus more on urban issues, to compile and monitor data on a sample of urban cities around the world. Afterward, the program was expanded to include specific indicators of the Habitat Agenda adopted in 1996 in Istanbul.
World Development Indicators (WDI)
Present statistical information and interactive visualizations worldwide for the development of this same.
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Anti-discrimination database
The database provides easy access to measures taken at the international, regional and national levels, including: international and regional instruments, case law from international, regional and national courts, legal measures adopted by States, as well as information on policy and institutional measures to combat racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance.
BDFutbol
BDFutbol, your portal for soccer data and statistics.
Enough is enough!
The following is the set of statistical inputs (terrorist attacks, massacres, kidnappings, mines, damage to civilian property, civilians killed in military actions, selective assassinations and attacks on populations) that fed the general report on memory and conflict ¡Basta ya! Colombia: memories of war and dignity.
Global Health Workforce statistics database
The World Health Workforce Statistics database includes processed extracts from national reports available on the NHWA data platform. Complementing these national reports, additional sources such as the National Census, Labor Force Surveys, and key national and regional administrative sources are also utilized. Due to the diverse data sources, significant variability persists among countries regarding the coverage, frequency, quality, and comprehensiveness of the original data. Health workforce occupations are classified according to the latest version of the International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO-08).
National Oil Company Database
National oil companies (NOCs) play huge roles in their home-country economies and are critical players in global oil and gas markets. This open database compiles information on the production, revenues and performance of 71 NOCs. Data has been drawn from official public documents, and assembled using a consistent methodology to facilitate cross-cutting analysis and benchmarking of companies.
Offshore Leaks Database
Find out who’s behind more than 810,000 offshore companies, foundations and trusts from the Pandora Papers, Paradise Papers, Bahamas Leaks, Panama Papers and Offshore Leaks investigations.
Reforms to penalties for noncompliance with financing regulations in Latin America
This database systematizes the political financing sanctioning regime of 17 Latin American countries between 1985 and 2021.
Sexual Rights Database
The Sexual Rights Initiative created the National Sexual Rights Law and Policy Database to document and compare the status of law and policy related to sexual rights issues in different countries around the world. Ultimately, the Database will contribute to strengthening the respect for, and the protection and fulfillment of, sexual rights at the national, regional and international levels.
Universal Human Rights Index
The UHDI facilitates access to human rights recommendations issued by three key pillars of the UN human rights monitoring system: the Treaty Bodies established under the international human rights treaties, as well as the Special Procedures and the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the Human Rights Council.
Universal Periodic Review Sexual Rights Database
The Universal Periodic Review of the United Nations Human Rights Council is a process to review each of the 193 Member States of the UN on its entire human rights record every four and a half years. This database allows you to access and search all the sexual rights related recommendations and references made during the Universal Periodic Review through several categories including: State under Review, Recommending State, Review Documentation, Sessions and Thematic Issue. It also includes information on implementation of recommendations to help track each State’s progress on human rights. The database is updated on a rolling basis following the adoption of UPR outcome reports.
World Inequality Database
The World Inequality Database (WID.world) aims to provide open and convenient access to the most comprehensive information available on the historical evolution of income and wealth distribution worldwide, both at national and international levels.
Yelp Academic Dataset
The Yelp dataset is a selection of information about businesses, reviews, and users, designed for personal, educational, and academic purposes. Available in JSON format, it is ideal for teaching students about databases, learning natural language processing (NLP), or working with sample data while developing mobile applications.
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City of Ballarat Data
Repository containing all data opened by the Municipal District of Ballarat, Australia. It allows downloading data in multiple formats.
Department Of Census And Statistic
It provides statistical and census information about the Nation, allowing exploration across various themes. The platform includes dashboards and multiple integrated data visualization options. However, the data is not available in downloadable formats.
Govern Obert - Pobla de Vallbona
Portal de Gobierno Abierto de Pobla de Vallbona, incluye espacios de participación, transparencia y rendición de cuentas.
INEC Ecuador
The institute coordinates, regulates and evaluates the production of official statistical information from the National Statistical System, through the planning, execution and analysis of statistical operation.
India Government Open Data
It facilitates access to shareable government proprietary data and information under various policies, laws and regulations of the India.
National Institute of Statistics
It is the agency in charge of producing the country's official statistics. In addition, which includes censuses, in Chile.
Statistics Sweden
Statistics Sweden is responsible for official statistics and other government statistics. This means that they develop, produce and disseminate statistics. In addition, they coordinate Sweden's official statistics system. It allows data to be downloaded free of charge via API.
The National Institute of Statistics and informatics
The National Institute of Statistics and Information produces and disseminates official statistical information with the purpose of contributing to the design, monitoring and evaluation of public policies and to the decision-making process of socioeconomic agents, the public sector and the community in general.
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Bellingcat
Bellingcat is an independent international collective of researchers, investigators and citizen journalists using open source and social media investigation to probe a variety of subjects
The RTI Rating
Analyses the quality of the world’s access to information laws.
TrackGVB
TrackGBV is an initiative aimed at removing gender bias and discrimination from judicial decision making through innovative technology to monitor accountability, training, and legislative and judicial policy reform. The early phases of this groundbreaking initiative identified a regional trend of gender bias negatively influencing how judges sentenced offenders in domestic violence and sexual offence cases in Pacific Island Countries (PICs).
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GeoPortalGasolineras.com
GeoPortalGasolineras.com is a website that offers a location service of the cheapest gas stations near the user, based on their location.
Humanitarian Data Exchange
Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX) is an open platform for sharing data across crises and organisations. Launched in July 2014, the goal of HDX is to make humanitarian data easy to find and use for analysis. Our growing collection of datasets has been accessed by users in over 250 countries and territories.
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Connectas Hub
It is a space that promotes journalistic complicities, where journalists can develop their investigations, exchange experiences, expand the impact of their work, manage their projects, and bet on counter-power journalism.
Monitor Ciudadano
It is a platform for information curation, investigation and monitoring of corruption in Colombia.
Statistics for Development Division of the Pacific Community
The Statistics for Development Division (SDD) is one of SPC’s nine technical divisions and operates from SPC’s headquarters in Noumea, New Caledonia. The bulk of SDD’s sector work focuses on economic and social statistics, with other thematic statistical work covered by other SPC divisions. It has a shared work program with many of these divisions, including programs focusing on agriculture, gender, energy, and transport statistics.