Bring the sources together, and see what moves.
Retrieving public statistics across international sources, made easy.
Cluster, customise, and export what you find.
Sources from WHO, UN, World Bank, OECD, UNICEF, IMF, UNESCO, and DHS
One taxonomy over every source.
Eight providers name and file their indicators differently. We map all of them onto a single taxonomy, so a topic means the same thing whether the number comes from the WHO, the World Bank, or the DHS Program. Pick a topic and browse it as one catalogue.
Data sourced from
- WHO
- UN
- World Bank
- OECD
- UNICEF
- IMF
- UNESCO
- DHS
Every indicator, rendered the moment you pick it.
No loading screen between a question and a chart. Choose an indicator and it draws immediately, straight from the provider's own endpoint, with the countries and years you asked for.
Build a selection, read it together or apart.
Add a second and a third indicator to the same selection. Read them one at a time, or put them side by side to see whether they actually move together.
Let the data group the countries for you.
Run k-means, hierarchical, or DBSCAN over your selection to surface the countries that behave alike, with an elbow curve to choose how many groups and a silhouette score to tell you whether the grouping holds.
Make the chart say exactly what you mean.
Switch between line, scatter, ranked bars, heatmaps, maps and more. Adjust axes, scales, colours, titles and annotations, and apply your settings across every chart at once.
Take the figures and the data with you.
Export any chart as a publication-ready image with its source credit baked in, or download the underlying observations as data. Everything is yours to reuse, within each provider's licence.
One dataset, a dozen ways to tell the story.
Ready to explore?
Search thousands of indicators, chart the trends, and take the figures with you. No account needed to start.
About the explorer
The Global Indicators Explorer brings public statistics from eight international organisations into one searchable interface. Start from a question, then chart trends, run analyses, cluster countries, map the world, and export every figure as a publication-ready image.
About the data
Every chart reaches a public REST endpoint maintained by the source organisation: the World Health Organization, the United Nations, the World Bank, the OECD, UNICEF, the IMF, UNESCO, and the DHS Program. No intermediate database and no scraping; adapters normalise each provider's API at request time.
Learn more about the sourcesFrequently asked
It is a free tool for browsing and charting official statistics about countries. You can search thousands of indicators, compare places over time, and build clean charts without a spreadsheet or an API key.
Every figure is pulled live from the public data services of eight organisations: the World Health Organization, the United Nations, the World Bank, the OECD, UNICEF, the IMF, UNESCO, and the DHS Program. Each chart credits its source so you can trace any number back to its origin.
Yes. Browsing the catalogue, comparing indicators, and exporting charts are all free, and there is nothing to install. The underlying data is public, and we simply make it easier to explore.
Indicators are fetched from the source APIs at the moment you view them, so you always see the latest values each organisation has published. Update cadence varies by indicator: some are annual, others are revised more often as new figures are released.
No account is needed to browse or chart the data. Signing in is optional and lets you save research areas and preferences so your work is ready the next time you visit.