Organizations from around the world collect and publish open source data for public use that can provide you with valuable insights and information leading to your policy goals. Discover a breadth of open databases, visuals and analyses below to access existing data in your area of interest, and sort by region and sector to refine your search. Not finding what you are looking for? Visit DataPortals.org for an even larger repository of open source databases that may suit your objectives.
Africa Data Hub seeks to lower the barriers that African journalists face to access and use data in their storytelling around health and development.
Learn More →The Planetary Computer Data Catalog includes petabytes of environmental monitoring data, in consistent, analysis-ready formats.
Learn More →Icebreaker One, an independent, non-partisan nonprofit supported by EU, UK Government, DGEN, and Laudes Foundation, provides environmental & financial data aiming to influence investment decisions to deliver demonstrable net-zero by 2030.
Learn More →HDX, managed by UN OCHA's Centre for Humanitarian Data, is an open platform for sharing data across crises and organisations. It provides data about the context of humanitarian crisis, people affected by the crisis, their needs, and responses by organisations and people seeking to help those who need assistance.
Learn More →An international network and data infrastructure funded by the world's governmnets, GBIF aims to provide open data about all types of life on Earth with contribution from its 64 country participants and 43 other associate participants.
Learn More →The ADB database for Asia development data
Learn More →A socio-economic database for Africa, featuring large amount of health data
Learn More →A collection of data sets from various sources, relevant for policymakers are mostly regarding environment
Learn More →Climate Watch offers data, visualizations and analysis for policy making, providing insights on countries' climate progress.
Learn More →The Data Distribution Centre (DDC) of IPCC provides climate, socio-economic and environmental data, both from the past and also in scenarios projected into the future.
Learn More →Climate Policy Database covers national mitigation related policies for climate change
Learn More →Policies and legal sources related to abortion around the world
Learn More →information on the dates, actors, locations, fatalities, and types of all reported political ciolence and protest events around the world
Learn More →34 free datasets on energy and environment
Learn More →Development for analysis of trade, financial and socio-economic trends in the Asia-Pacific region
Learn More →Socio-economic indicators for African countries
Learn More →Database for trade agreements in the Asia Pacific region
Learn More →Disaster information management system from UNDRR
Learn More →A continously updated database for disaster information around the world
Learn More →Hazards & Disasters data worldwide since 1988
Learn More →Data base focsuing on selected countries in Africa on agriculture, climate, poverty, and health
Learn More →A comprehensive tracker for most significant antigovernment protests worldwide since 2017
Learn More →A database tracking more than 210 SDG indicators world wide
Learn More →A library with around 400 entries
Learn More →Database tracking internal displacement around the world
Learn More →Demographic and Social, Economic, Environmental, SDGs and more
Learn More →A comprehensive database for Arab States development data
Learn More →A comprehensive gender statistics with data visualizations for informing policy choices.
Learn More →The Gender Statistics Databse is a comprehensive knowledge centre for gender statistics and information on various aspects of equality between women and men.
Learn More →A summary of the state of sustainability around the world at national level with 40 indicators across 11 issue categories. 180 countries, climate change performance, environmental health, and ecosystem vitality
Learn More →A comprehensive and up-to-date legislative and policy database on food, agriculture and natural resources management.
Learn More →With contribution from nations and communities worldwide, Indigenous Navigator tracks all aspects of the worlds indigenous population
Learn More →formatted and standardized data about ECHR for legal analysis and related area.
Learn More →OECD database for education, skills, gender, investment, trade, SMEs and more
Learn More →Education data from an international assessment targeting 15 years old students, evaluating three basic disciplines of science, math and reading, coordinated by the OECD, participated by 79 countries, featuring Brazil.
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