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Every table on this site, as its publisher released it.

430 datasets from 70 publishers: 10,883 editions and 1,801,978 rows, reaching back to 1820. Every value is stored digit for digit as published, and every edition can be downloaded as a CSV file under its publisher’s own open licence.

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The archive · 1820–2026

1820188919572026

One line per dataset, from its first edition to its newest, grouped by subject. Red: the 6 newest imports.

01Newest imports

Just added

The datasets read from their publishers most recently. Every import, dated, is on the Updates page.

Every import

0218 subjects

By subject

Choose a subject to filter the catalogue below. A dataset can sit under two subjects, so the counts add up to more than the library.

All subjects

03The catalogue

Every dataset

All 430, A–Z. The bar shows which years each holds, gaps included. Search by name, publisher or keyword, or narrow by subject, publisher or licence.

Showing 30 of 430

04Coverage

Where the data is thin

How many of the 430 datasets hold a reading for each place in their newest edition. The middle place is measured by 341.

All countries
World map: each place shaded by how many of the 430 datasets hold a reading for it
  • 3–216 datasets
  • 223–317 datasets
  • 320–354 datasets
  • 355–374 datasets
  • 375–411 datasets

Darker: measured by more datasets. Hover a place for its count, or select it to open its profile.

Most measured

  1. 411Philippinesof 430
  2. 404Dominican Republicof 430
  3. 400Costa Ricaof 430
  4. 400El Salvadorof 430
  5. 400Guatemalaof 430

Least measured

  1. 3Northern Cyprusof 430
  2. 22Channel Islandsof 430
  3. 26Somalilandof 430
  4. 33Vatican Cityof 430
  5. 38Saint Martinof 430
  • 349Africa’s middle place, of 55
  • 297Americas’ middle place, of 48
  • 341Asia’s middle place, of 52
  • 365Europe’s middle place, of 49
  • 166Oceania’s middle place, of 21

This is a fact about the data, not about the places. Small territories fill the bottom of the list because most publishers measure sovereign states, and a place missing from a dataset is a publisher’s choice of scope.

05Across 430 datasets

The library in records

A record held by more than one dataset names none of them.

  • Longest series

    Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison)

    112

    editions held

    GGDC · 1820–2022

  • Widest coverage

    21 datasets share it, so none is named.

    222

    countries in the newest edition

    A record held by more than one names none

  • Most columns in one file

    Global Innovation Index

    15

    columns, country and code included

    World Intellectual Property Organization

  • Most-measured place

    Philippines

    411 of 430

    datasets hold a reading for it

    The newest edition of each dataset

  • Largest publisher here

    World Bank Group

    100

    datasets

    Then FAO 43 · UIS 33 · ILO 33

  • Furthest back

    Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison)

    1820

    the earliest year held

    GGDC

06Licences

What you may do with it

Every licence in the library, in 7 families, with what each lets you do and what it asks of you.

Every publisher’s terms
  • CC BY 4.0233Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.
  • CC BY 3.0 IGO87The version of CC BY written for intergovernmental organisations. Credit the publisher and say what you changed.
  • CC BY-SA 4.067Share, adapt and use commercially with credit — and anything you publish that adapts it must carry the same licence.From CIVICUS, Global Footprint Network, Lloyd's Register Foundation, Oxford Insights, UIS, V-Dem Institute.
  • Public domain or CC020No conditions at all. Crediting the publisher is still the courteous thing to do.
  • OECD terms12The OECD’s own terms for its data: reuse, including commercial reuse, with the OECD credited as the source.
  • CC BY 3.07Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.
  • Other open terms4The publisher’s own written permission to reuse, commercial use included. Read the terms before republishing.

Plain-language summaries, not legal advice. Every dataset page links its licence text and the date it was last checked, and every one of them permits commercial reuse — nothing else is published here. The terms, publisher by publisher, are on Sources & publishers.

07The files

How the files work

What every file holds, what this site changes and never changes, and where to fetch it.

The site’s method

In every file

  • first, 11 lines of notes: the publisher, the licence, how to credit it and what this site changed. To read the table with code, skip the first 12 rows
  • country, as the file spells it
  • country_code, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code every table joins on
  • then the publisher’s own columns, in the publisher’s order
  • every value exactly as published, digit for digit

What this site changes

Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

A report is often named for a later year than its figures describe. Every page prints both years.

Addresses

Every edition, and every dataset whole:

/datasets/severe-food-insecurity/2024/data.csv
/datasets/severe-food-insecurity/all.csv

08Questions

Datasets: questions and answers

Can I download the data?

Yes. Every edition of every dataset is a CSV file, one click from its page, and each dataset has one CSV holding all its editions. Values are exactly as the publisher released them.

Is it free to reuse, including commercially?

Every one of the 430 datasets is published under terms that allow commercial reuse — nothing else is published here. All of them ask you to credit the publisher, and 67 also ask that anything you publish from them carries the same licence. Each dataset page links its licence.

Why is the 2026 edition of some datasets about 2025?

Many reports are named for the year they are released and built from figures for the year before. Every dataset and edition page prints both years.

Why is a country missing from a dataset?

Each publisher decides which countries it measures. Every dataset page lists the places this site covers that the dataset does not, and the coverage map above shows how thin the data is for small territories.

Are the numbers rounded?

No. Values are stored exactly as published. The tables on screen may show fewer decimals so they can be read; the downloads never do.

How often is the library updated?

When a publisher releases a new edition. Every import is dated on the Updates page; the newest was read on October 13, 2026.

Looking for how a measure has moved, rather than the file? Every statistic, charted.

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