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Data Providers Datasets by Topic National Statistical Offices Data by Keyword

First published: 29 Oct 2023
Update: 10 Nov 2023

30 Data Providers

UN Data
This is the data warehouse of the United Nations Statistics Division - with 32 Databases and 60 million records. It provides a broad range of international statistical data.
A broad range of statistical data for all countries of the world.
In addition to the statistical data for all countries of the world, UN-Data also provides the Monthly Bulletin of Statistics, the SDG Indicators and the UNcomtrade database with detailed global trade data.
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
UNESCO is the lead data provider for the World Heritage Convention.
UNESCO maintaines a list of world heritage sites and various related statistics.
Essential data on world heritage sites and buildings, cultural landscapes, historic urban landscapes, and natural world heritage sites.
World Meteorological Organization
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is an intergovernmental organization with a membership of 193 member states and territories. It is focusing on meteorology, hydrology, weather and climate data.
The WMO publishes Annual Climate Reports.
Among other datasets, the WHO provides data on climatological normals, world weather records, global surface temperature, climate extremes, and world records of weather extremes.
The World Bank Group - Open Data
The World Bank is an international financial institution providing financial and technical assistance for global development.
Pioneers the publication of World Development Indicators.
The World Bank has the largest data data warehouse of economic and development data for all countries fo the world.
Amnesty International
Amnesty International is a NGO focusing on human rights. It is headquarterd in the United Kingdom.
AI does not systematically collect and distribute data, but has a substantial collection of data-driven research reoprts on various issuses related to human rights.
Country reports on human rights violations. Reports on armed conflicts, armed groups (terrorists), arms trade, asylum seekers, censorship, child labor, child soldiers, and much more.
International Monetary Fund - Financial Data
The IMF is a global organization that works to achieve sustainable growth and prosperity for all of its member countries. It is supporting economic policies that promote financial stability and monetary cooperation. 
Flagship publications: World Economic Outlook. Also: international finance statistics, climate change indicators, regional economic outlooks.
Important IMF data: balance of payments, international investment positions, official foreign exchange reserves, external dept statistics, interestrRates
International Labour Organization (ILO)
UN agency dealing with labor and workers' rights.
Releases key reports like the Global Wage Report and World Employment and Social Outlook.
With its ILOSTAT database the International Labor Organization is the world's leading source of labor statistics. The also have a huge database on labor laws, standards and policies.
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
SIPRI is an independent international institute dedicated to research into conflict, armaments, arms control and disarmament. It provides data, analysis and recommendations to policymakers, researchers, media and the interested public.
Landmark publication: The SIPRI Yearbook.
SIPRI provides databases on Arms Transfers, Arms Industry, Arms Transfers and Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) Controls, Multilateral Peace Operations, and Military Expenditures.
United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that works to achieve food security for all and make sure that people have access to enough high-quality food to lead active, healthy lives
Important FAO datasets: food balance sheets, supply utilization accounts, commodity balances, consumer price indices, data on forestry production and trade, food security indicators, crops and lifestock statistics
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change.
The IPCC is well known for its Assessment Reports on Global Climate Change. These reports should inform policy makers and the public about the latest consensus of researchers on climate change. The latest Assessment is the Sixth Assesment from 2023.
Landmark Publication: Sixth Assessment Report from 2023.
National Institutes of Health
The National Institutes of Health in the US provide various health-related databases and software tools.
The NIH and its various institutes and research centers provide public health-related data, as well as databeses on genome research.
NIH-Institutes provide various biologial (genomics) databases as well as statistical data on cancer, mental health, myeloma, mortality, and others.
UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
The UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) is an official source of internationally-comparable data on education, science, culture and communication.
Interactive database with data on eduction, science, culture and communication. Demographic and socio-economic data come from other UN agencies.
Some hard-to-find statistics on cultural employment, feature films, education expenditures, out-of-school children, survival rates by education, etc.
DATA.GOV
Home of the U.S. Government's Open Data
Interactive database with more than 262-thousand datasets available. Free access!
It provides access to datasets published by agencies across the U.S. federal government. It's intended to uphold the ideals of an open and transparent government.
NOAA One Stop Climate and Weather Data
One Stop Data Portal: Data on Weather, Climate, Satellites, Fischeries, Coasts and Oceans
A NOAA Data Search Platform
NOAA is a primary data provider on climate change data products.
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
NCEI manages the world's largest archive of climate and paleoclimatology data.
Main NOAA activities: arctic, antarctic, and polar data, climate data, coastal indicators, geomagnetism, marine biology, marine geology, natural hazards, ocean acoustics, ocean chemistry, paleoclimatology, radar and satellite meteorology, space weather, upper air observations, weather and climate models
NOAA is a primary data provider on environmental data products covering a wide range from the depths of the ocean to the surface of the sun.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is the national public health agency of the United States.
The CDC is a lead agency for the collection, distribution and analysis of various health-related data.
NIH ha data on alcohol use, cancer, diabetes, asthma, autism, foodborn illnesses, heart disease, and immunications. It is publishing
United Nations Development Programme
The United Nations Development Program works in about 170 countries and territories, helping to eradicate poverty, reduce inequalities and exclusion, and build resilience so countries can sustain progress.
As the UN’s development agency, UNDP plays a critical role in helping countries achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Its main publication is the Human Development Report.
UNDP's Data Futures Platform brings together data from the UN System and other agencies and includes raw data sets, indexes and rankings - primarily the Human Development Index (HDI).
NASA - Goddard Institute for Space Studies
NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) is a laboratory in the Earth Sciences Division (ESD) of National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC).
A key objective of GISS research is prediction of atmospheric and climate changes in the 21st century. The research combines analysis of comprehensive global datasets with global models of atmospheric, land surface, and oceanic processes.
The Goddard Institute for Space studies has large datasets and models on global temperature, aerosols, clouds, oceans, precipitation, radiative flux, and storms.
Uppsala Conflict Data Program
The Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research is the world’s main provider of data on organized violence and the oldest ongoing data collection project for civil war, with a history of almost 40 years.
The UCDP Georeferenced Event Dataset is the most disaggregated dataset, covering individual events of organized violence. They also provide an Armed Conflicts Dataset, Battle-Related Deaths datasets, and Non-State Conflict Datasets.
The UCDP data are most widely used statistical collections on violent events, wars, non-state violent conflicts and many other violence-related topics.
Population Reference Bureau
The PRB is an independent research institution providing population, health and environment data.
Flagship publication: World Population Data Sheet
The PRB has been publishing world population data sheets and demographic, social and health-related analyses for many decades.
The World Data Center for Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere
The activities of the Earth Observation Center of the DLR are dedicated to acquisition, archiving and harnessing data from different missions for scientists and users.
Data from the German Aerospace Center EO missions
Extremely difficult to use. Requires specialized knowledge.
World Health Organization - Global Health Observatory
Specialized agency of the United Nations focusing on international public health.
Publishes the World Health Report and Global Health Observatory data.
The WHO has a broad range of health-related data, including data on noncommunicable diseases, maternal and perinatal health, tropical diseases, influenca, Covid-19, malaria, tuberculosis, maternal mortality, immunization, child growth and malnutrition, and many more.
United States Census Bureau
The US Census Bureau is the principal agency producing demographic data in the United States.
American Community Survey
The US Census Burau has a broad range of statistical data on business and economy, education, emergency management, employment, families and living arrangements, health, housing, trade, population, the public sector and research in the United States of America.
Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India
Conducts the Census of India every 10 years. The last decennial population Census of India was conducted during 9th–28th February 2011
Census results. Houselisting and Housing Census; Population Census.
The census office of India provides data tables and analyses on the population and housing censuses of the most populous country in the world.
Climate Data Online
Climate Data Online (CDO) provides free access to NCDC's archive of global historical weather and climate data in addition to station history information.
Climate Data Online
NOAA is a primary data provider on climate change data products.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development - Data
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is an international organisation that works to shape policies that foster prosperity, equality, opportunity and well-being for all.
For its evidence-based reports the OECD has accumulated a large data warehouse focusing on statistical data, indicators and rankings on economic, social and political development.
The OECD also has data on agriculture, development, the economy, education, energy, the environment, finance, government, health, innovation & technology, jobs, demography, migration and social protection.
World Economic Forum
According to their own program, the World Economic Forum brings together government, businesses and civil society to improve the state of the world.
The WEF has published many data-heavy reports (such as the Global Competitiveness Report) and several Global Indexes and Rankings (such as the Global Gender Gap Index or Travel & Tourism Development Index).
The WEF's data-focused reports, indexes and rankings are usually supporting its political agenda of entrepreneurship in the global public interest.
Pew Research Center
Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. We conduct public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research.
Global Attitudes Project
Pew Research is a major provider of population-related and social public opinion polls. The also provided in-depth demographic and social analyses.
United Nations Population Division
The Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) is providing demographic estimates, projections and research for all countries of the world.
Flagship publication: The World Population Prospects and the World Urbanization Prospects. Also: Model Life Tables and data on fertility, mortality and migration
The Popuation Division is the primary provider of global demographic data. They collect demographic data from multiple sources, evaluate and "clean" the raw data sets and prepare consistent population estimates and projections for all countries of the world.
China Population and Development Research Center
The Center is supervised by the National Health Commission of China (NPFPC) and conducts research on population, family planning policy and development issues in China.
China Population and Development Studies
The number one demographic research center in China provides data and analyses on population family planning.