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Open Data Watch · Open Data Inventory
Open Data Inventory by country
How much of its official data does a country publish openly?
2 countries shared first place of the 168 countries compared in 2024, all at 90, and Turkmenistan last, at 19. In the middle country the figure was 59. Among the 107 countries measured in every edition since 2015, the middle one moved from 32 to 55.
Part ofGovernance & Institutions
Open Data Inventory · 2024
Key statistic · Governance & Institutions
2 countries share the highest value, 90 — no single country is named first.
012024 · Open Data Watch’s rank
Who leads
The three countries at the highest end of 168 compared, the three at the other end, and the first on each continent.
Highest in 2024 · shared
2 countries share the highest reading, 90
No single country is named first: picking one from a shared value would be a choice the data does not make.
Lowest in 2024
- 168
Turkmenistan19 - 167
South Sudan20 - 166
Venezuela23
Ranks out of 168. Where a country sits says how it compares with the others measured, and nothing about why.
02Every measured country
Open Data Inventory on a map
Each country is shaded by its value, in five groups holding the same number of countries. Hover a country for its value, or select it to open its profile. Below the map, each continent’s middle country.
Darker is a higher value — the better end.
- 19–42
- 43–54
- 55–63
- 64–75
- 76–90
- No reading in 2024 (3 measured in an earlier edition)
- Europe
74
the middle country, of 38 measured · 49 members
Poland90
Bosnia and Herzegovina49Highest and lowest reading in Europe.
- Americas
60
the middle country, of 29 measured · 48 members
2 share 78
Venezuela23Highest and lowest reading in Americas.
- Asia
58
the middle country, of 44 measured · 52 members
Malaysia90Turkmenistan19Highest and lowest reading in Asia.
- Africa
48
the middle country, of 50 measured · 55 members
2 share 77
South Sudan20Highest and lowest reading in Africa.
- Oceania
44
the middle country, of 7 measured · 21 members
Australia77
Papua New Guinea36Highest and lowest reading in Oceania.
- Every region
21 sub-regions, highest middle country first
- Northern Europe
79
the middle country, of 10 measured · 13 members
3 share 89
United Kingdom70Highest and lowest reading in Northern Europe.
- Eastern Europe
76
the middle country, of 9 measured · 10 members
Poland90
Russia62Highest and lowest reading in Eastern Europe.
- Eastern Asia
71
the middle country, of 5 measured · 8 members
Mongolia83
China39Highest and lowest reading in Eastern Asia.
- Western Europe
66
the middle country, of 7 measured · 9 members
Netherlands82
Belgium54Highest and lowest reading in Western Europe.
- Southern Europe
64
the middle country, of 12 measured · 17 members
Slovenia86Bosnia and Herzegovina49Highest and lowest reading in Southern Europe.
- South America
63
the middle country, of 12 measured · 12 members
Brazil69Venezuela23Highest and lowest reading in South America.
- Western Asia
61
the middle country, of 17 measured · 19 members
United Arab Emirates85
Syria28Highest and lowest reading in Western Asia.
- Central Asia
59
the middle country, of 5 measured · 5 members
Uzbekistan83Turkmenistan19Highest and lowest reading in Central Asia.
- South-eastern Asia
59
the middle country, of 10 measured · 11 members
Malaysia90
Timor-Leste41Highest and lowest reading in South-eastern Asia.
- Western Africa
55
the middle country, of 16 measured · 16 members
Burkina Faso77
Liberia31Highest and lowest reading in Western Africa.
- Central America
54
the middle country, of 8 measured · 8 members
Mexico76
El Salvador32Highest and lowest reading in Central America.
- Northern Africa
53
the middle country, of 5 measured · 6 members
Morocco772 share 28
Highest and lowest reading in Northern Africa.
- Southern Asia
49
the middle country, of 7 measured · 9 members
India54
Pakistan42Highest and lowest reading in Southern Asia.
- Caribbean
48
the middle country, of 6 measured · 24 members
Dominican Republic62
Haiti25Highest and lowest reading in Caribbean.
- Eastern Africa
45
the middle country, of 16 measured · 19 members
Burundi66South Sudan20Highest and lowest reading in Eastern Africa.
- Southern Africa
44
the middle country, of 5 measured · 5 members
South Africa51
Eswatini34Highest and lowest reading in Southern Africa.
- Middle Africa
40
the middle country, of 8 measured · 9 members
Cameroon65
Republic of the Congo33Highest and lowest reading in Middle Africa.
- Australia and New Zealand
2 of 2 measured — too few for a middle: Australia, New Zealand.
Australia77
New Zealand76Highest and lowest reading in Australia and New Zealand.
- Melanesia
4 of 5 measured — too few for a middle: Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu.
Fiji44Papua New Guinea36Highest and lowest reading in Melanesia.
- Northern America
3 of 4 measured — too few for a middle: Canada, Greenland, United States.
2 share 78
Greenland63Highest and lowest reading in Northern America.
- Polynesia
1 of 7 measured — too few for a middle: Samoa.
Samoa45Highest and lowest reading in Polynesia.
03The whole field at once
The spread
168 countries, one dot each, on one scale — further right is a higher value. Half the countries are above 59; a quarter are above 72, and a quarter below 45. The bar in each row marks that continent’s middle country.
04All 171 ever measured
Every country
In order, highest value first. “=” marks a rank shared with another country. The rank is Open Data Watch’s own, with genuine ties: Malaysia and Poland share rank 1 in 2024 and no country holds rank 2. It is also ODIN’s published ranking, which deliberately leaves out the 29 states it classes as small — their scores exist but are not ranked.
Showing 25 of 171 countries
Values for 2024. The change column compares 2024 with 2022 only; the sparkline covers the recent editions.
052015–2024 · 7 editions
Over time
Each point is one edition. The series is biennial after 2018, so the missing 2019, 2021 and 2023 are gaps in publication rather than gaps in this import.
- the middle country
- the middle half of countries
- the middle of the 107 countries measured every time
- each continent’s middle country
The same, year by year
| Year | Countries | Middle country | Middle half | Measured every time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 168 | 59 | 45 – 72 | 55 |
| 2022 | 167 | 51 | 40 – 65 | 46 |
| 2020 | 166 | 50 | 40 – 63 | 47 |
| 2018 | 164 | 44 | 34 – 57 | 39 |
| 2017 | 165 | 38 | 30 – 54 | 36 |
| 2016 | 161 | 39 | 30 – 54 | 37 |
| 2015 | 117 | 32 | 23 – 40 | 32 |
062022 → 2024
Who rose and fell
The biggest changes in value between the two newest editions. Places are shown second, because they also move when other countries do.
Improved most
before → after
Côte d’Ivoire20 → 62 · 162nd → 68th+42
Central African Republic26 → 61 · 158th → 73rd+35- Malaysia59 → 90 · 60th → 1st+31
Niger36 → 67 · 138th → 49th+31
Senegal47 → 75 · 93rd → 31st+28
Declined most
before → after- El Salvador43 → 32 · 109th → 160th−11
Greece60 → 51 · 58th → 106th−9- Liberia40 → 31 · 123rd → 161st−9
Czechia70 → 63 · 28th → 64th−7
Vietnam55 → 48 · 73rd → 118th−7
165 countries were measured in both 2022 and 2024. The field changed from 167 to 168 countries, so a place can move for reasons that have nothing to do with the country itself.
07Across every edition
Open Data Inventory in records
The extremes of the statistic. A record reached by more than one country names none of them.
Highest reading on record
Reached 2 times by 2 countries — shared, so no holder is named
90
ODIN overall score (0–100)
Lowest reading on record
1
ODIN overall score (0–100)
Biggest improvement between editions
+44
19 → 63
Biggest decline between editions
−27
30 → 3
Most improved since first measured
+80
3 → 83
At the top most often
2 of 7
editions, alone at the first-listed end
08The measure
About Open Data Inventory
The Open Data Inventory asks whether a country’s national statistics office actually publishes its data, and whether that data is genuinely open — downloadable, machine-readable and free to reuse. Open Data Watch scores coverage and openness separately and combines them out of 100.
What the number is: ODIN overall score (0–100).
What it does not measure
It checks what the national statistics office publishes and how openly, not whether the underlying figures are accurate.
09Where it fits
Connections
Its part in the Country Index, the statistics whose values line up most closely with it across countries, and others on the same subject.
In the Country Index
A key statistic for Governance & Institutions
“Whether official statistics are published openly and usably, which is a separate question from whether they are produced at all.”
- Edition used
- 2024 (data 2024)
- Countries
- 168
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
Moves with
Where Open Data Inventory is higher, these tend to be higher too.
- Statistical Performance IndicatorsKeyWorld Bank Group · 164 countries in commonρ 0.84
- Regulatory QualityWorld Bank Group · 168 countries in commonρ 0.72
- Government AI Readiness IndexKeyOxford Insights · 166 countries in commonρ 0.71
Moves against
Where Open Data Inventory is higher, these tend to be lower.
- Informal Employment RateILO · 86 countries in commonρ −0.71
- Prevalence of UndernourishmentFAO · 152 countries in commonρ −0.68
- Gender Inequality IndexKeyUNDP Human Development Report Office · 159 countries in commonρ −0.66
Rank correlation (ρ, from −1 to 1) across countries, on each statistic’s newest edition, out of 122 statistics sharing at least 80 countries with this one. Two statistics that move together do not cause each other.
10Keep reading
Explore further
The subject
The countries at either end
11Questions
Open Data Inventory: questions and answers
Which country has the highest Open Data Inventory?
2 countries share the highest reading, 90, among the 168 compared in 2024, so no single country is named.
Which country has the lowest Open Data Inventory?
Turkmenistan, at 19, among the 168 countries compared in 2024.
How many countries does the Open Data Inventory cover?
168 in 2024, and 171 at least once across all editions. The number measured varies from 117 to 168 between editions.
What is the world average Open Data Inventory?
This site does not calculate a world average, which would depend on how countries are weighted. In the middle country of the 168 compared in 2024, the figure was 59.
Is this Open Data Watch’s own ranking?
Yes. The rank shown is the one Open Data Watch publishes.
How often is the Open Data Inventory published?
This site holds 7 editions, describing 2015 to 2024.
Where does the data come from, and can I download it?
From Open Data Watch, under CC BY 4.0. From Open Data Watch’s published ODIN results, with the coverage and openness subscores stored alongside the overall score. Every edition is available on this site’s Datasets pages as a full table, unrounded.
12Method
Sources, method and citation
Source
Open Data Inventory — Open Data Watch
From Open Data Watch’s published ODIN results, with the coverage and openness subscores stored alongside the overall score.
Newest edition
Report year 2024Data year 2024
Cite the source as: Open Data Watch. Open Data Inventory (ODIN). Washington, DC: Open Data Watch.
Licence: CC BY 4.0, checked 2026-09-05.
How this page reads the numbers
- The rank is Open Data Watch’s own, as published.
- Which end is better follows the publisher’s own reading of the measure.
- A country is named at an end only when it holds that value alone. Where several share it, the page says how many and names none first.
- Values are stored exactly as published and trimmed only for display. “The middle country” is the median of the countries measured, not a world average.
The full note on this data
7 editions (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022 and 2024), covering 117 to 168 countries. ODIN assesses whether a country’s national statistical office actually publishes its data and whether that data is genuinely open - the coverage and openness subscores are stored alongside the overall score. ⚠ The series is BIENNIAL after 2018, so the missing 2019, 2021 and 2023 are real gaps in publication, not gaps in this import. ⚠ The rank is Open Data Watch’s own and is a standard competition ranking with genuine ties - Malaysia and Poland share rank 1 in 2024 and no country holds rank 2. ⚠ This is ODIN’s PUBLISHED ranking, which deliberately excludes the 29 states it classes as small; their scores exist but are not ranked.
Cite this page
Nations Inquiry (2026). Open Data Inventory by country: Open Data Inventory, data from Open Data Watch. https://nationsinquiry.com/statistics/open-data-inventory