eight providers, one explorer

Where the data
comes from.

Every chart in this explorer reaches a public REST endpoint maintained by one of eight international organisations. No intermediate database, no scraping. Below is how a number travels from an API to a chart, then each provider, how its API works, and the licence it releases the data under.

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Global Health Observatory

World Health Organization

WHO's central repository of global health statistics. Over 3,000 indicators on mortality, disease, health systems, risk factors, and the health targets of the Sustainable Development Goals.

An OData v4 REST endpoint returning JSON. Indicator metadata supports $filter expressions; observations come back as flat records keyed by ISO3 country code (SpatialDim), year (TimeDim), and up to two dimensions (typically sex and age). Public, no authentication.

Base: ghoapi.azureedge.net/api

who.int/data/gho API docs

SDG Indicators Database

United Nations

The UN Statistics Division's official store of Sustainable Development Goals progress data. 700-plus harmonised series across the 17 Goals and 169 Targets, updated continuously by the custodian agencies of each indicator.

REST JSON. Series/List enumerates the catalogue, Series/Data returns paginated observations keyed by M49 numeric country code (translated to ISO3 in the adapter). Each row carries goal, target, and indicator identifiers. Public, no authentication.

Base: unstats.un.org/SDGAPI/v1/sdg

unstats.un.org/sdgs API docs

World Development Indicators

World Bank

The most-cited cross-country development dataset. Population, GDP, poverty, infrastructure, and human capital, harmonised across 200-plus economies from 1960 onward by the Bank's economists.

REST returning a [metadata, observations] tuple in JSON. Observations carry ISO3 country code, year as a string, numeric value, and a thin attribute set. Pagination is page-based. Public, no authentication.

Base: api.worldbank.org/v2

data.worldbank.org API docs

Data Explorer

OECD

Over 1,500 datasets across the OECD directorates (labour, education, environment, tax, trade, science), served through a single SDMX endpoint. Strongest coverage for the 38 member economies plus key partner countries.

SDMX REST returning SDMX-JSON, SDMX-ML, or SDMX-CSV. Each indicator lives inside a dataflow with a typed dimension model (REF_AREA, MEASURE, TIME_PERIOD, plus dataset-specific dimensions). Observations are decoded by mapping colon-separated index keys against the structure metadata.

Base: sdmx.oecd.org/public/rest

data-explorer.oecd.org API docs

Data Warehouse

UNICEF

Indicators on children's wellbeing: child mortality, immunisation, education, child poverty, climate risk. Drawn from MICS, DHS, administrative data, and inter-agency groups like the IGME and JMP.

SDMX REST in the same standard as OECD. The catalogue is exposed as SDMX-ML 2.1, observations as SDMX-CSV. Most dataflows bundle multiple measures inside the INDICATOR dimension, so narrowing to a specific measure shrinks the response by an order of magnitude.

Base: sdmx.data.unicef.org/ws/public/sdmxapi/rest

data.unicef.org API docs

DataMapper

International Monetary Fund

The IMF's headline macro-financial dataset. 132 indicators spanning the World Economic Outlook, Fiscal Monitor, global debt, capital flows, reserve adequacy, and the AI Preparedness Index, for nearly every economy.

A public REST/JSON endpoint, successor to the retired SDMX data service. One call returns an indicator's full panel keyed by ISO3 country code and year. Region and group aggregates share the three-letter shape, so the adapter fetches the region and group code lists once to exclude them. No authentication.

Base: imf.org/external/datamapper/api/v1

imf.org/en/Data API docs

Institute for Statistics

UNESCO

The UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) is the authoritative source for global education data. Enrolment, attainment, literacy, learning outcomes, and financing across the SDG 4 targets, compiled from national ministries and household surveys.

A public REST/JSON API. /data/indicators returns an indicator's records keyed by ISO3 geoUnit and year; /definitions/indicators exposes the 5,000-plus indicator catalogue. Regional aggregates use descriptive codes, so an ISO3 filter cleanly isolates countries. No authentication.

Base: api.uis.unesco.org/api/public

databrowser.uis.unesco.org API docs

Demographic and Health Surveys

The DHS Program

The DHS Program has conducted more than 400 nationally representative household surveys in 92 countries since 1984. It is the world's largest source of survey-based data on population, health, HIV, and nutrition in low- and middle-income countries. Funded by USAID and implemented by ICF.

A public REST/JSON API with no authentication. /data returns observations for any combination of indicators, countries, and surveys. /indicators exposes the full 4,600-indicator catalogue with a Level1/Level2/Level3 taxonomy. Country codes are DHS-specific two-letter codes, but each country record includes an ISO3 mapping.

Base: api.dhsprogram.com/rest/dhs

statcompiler.com API docs