About worldgovdata

What it is

Governance, economy, health, education, demography, climate, risk and society — each indicator is pulled from its official publisher, mapped to standard ISO country codes, and stored as one value per indicator, country and year. Every chart on the site is built from that harmonized layer, and every value keeps a link back to the source that produced it.

Methodology

Source selection

We only use sources that are freely accessible without an API key and published under an open licence — the Creative Commons Attribution family. Sources that restrict reuse are left out, even when the data would be useful.

Harmonization

Provider-native codes are mapped onto one country spine and reshaped to a common grain: one row per indicator, country and year. Aggregates and non-country entities are dropped.

Provenance

Every chart, ranking and country profile shows a provenance chip naming the source, its licence and when the data was last refreshed. Nothing is presented without attribution.

Update cadence

Each source is refreshed on its own schedule — weekly, monthly or quarterly depending on how often the publisher releases new data. The sources page shows the latest run and data year for each one.

Licensing

Data belongs to its publishers and is reused here under each source's licence. When you reuse anything from worldgovdata, carry that attribution through.

• Worldwide Governance Indicators

  World Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (CC BY 4.0)
  CC BY 4.0
• World Development Indicators

  World Bank, World Development Indicators (CC BY 4.0)
  CC BY 4.0
• Our World in Data

  Our World in Data (CC BY 4.0)
  CC BY 4.0
• UNDP Human Development Report Office

  UNDP, Human Development Report Office (CC BY 3.0 IGO)
  CC BY 3.0 IGO
• INFORM (EC JRC)

  European Commission, JRC — INFORM (CC BY 4.0)
  CC BY 4.0
• Country spine

  World Bank & Datahub country-codes
  CC BY 4.0