Data sources and licences
Every figure on this site is collected automatically from the official source shown on its page. Values are not edited. Where a distributor such as the World Bank republishes data produced by another organisation, both are named.
European Central Bank, ECB Data Portal
The European Central Bank and the national central banks of the euro area compile monetary and financial statistics. Bank interest rates on new loans are used here to show borrowing costs by country.
Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union
Eurostat publishes harmonised statistics for the EU member states, the euro area, EFTA countries and EU candidate countries. Its survey-based measures, such as the Labour Force Survey and the survey on income and living conditions, use common definitions so countries can be compared.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAOSTAT
FAOSTAT is the statistical database of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, covering food, agriculture, land use, inputs such as fertilisers and pesticides, and agrifood emissions for about 245 countries and territories.
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain
INE is Spain's national statistics institute. Its consumer price index and Labour Force Survey (EPA) are the national reference series, published here alongside the harmonised Eurostat figures.
International Labour Organization, ILOSTAT
ILOSTAT is the International Labour Organization's database of labour statistics. The ILO modelled estimates used here give comparable annual figures for almost every country, including projections for the current and next year.
Office for National Statistics (ONS), United Kingdom
The Office for National Statistics is the United Kingdom's national statistical institute. Its monthly and quarterly series fill the gap left after 2020, when the UK stopped reporting to Eurostat.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
The OECD publishes comparable economic and social statistics for its member countries and selected partner economies. Its monthly labour and price series are used here for timely cross-country comparisons.
UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
The UNESCO Institute for Statistics is the official source of internationally comparable data on education, science, culture and communication, and the custodian of the education targets of the Sustainable Development Goals.
United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division
The UN Population Division's World Population Prospects gives population estimates from 1950 and projections to 2100 for every country, using one consistent method. Projections here are the medium variant.
World Bank, World Development Indicators
The World Bank compiles World Development Indicators for more than 200 economies from its own work and from international agencies such as the UN Population Division, WHO, FAO, UNESCO, ITU and the IMF. Each indicator page here names the original producer.
World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory
The Global Health Observatory is the World Health Organization's portal for health statistics on its 194 member states. Its estimates, such as healthy life expectancy, suicide rates and the prevalence of obesity, are modelled with common methods so that countries can be compared.
Original producers
The organisation that compiled each statistic, with the number of measures on this site.
| Producer | Measures |
|---|---|
| Eurostat | 144 |
| WHO | 14 |
| World Bank and OECD national accounts data, from national statistical offices | 14 |
| United Nations Population Division, World Population Prospects | 13 |
| UNESCO UIS | 10 |
| International Labour Organization, ILO Modelled Estimates | 9 |
| ONS | 8 |
| UNESCO Institute for Statistics | 8 |
| UN Population Division | 7 |
| Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) | 7 |
| FAOSTAT | 6 |
| European Commission JRC, EDGAR Community GHG Database | 5 |
| World Bank, Poverty and Inequality Platform | 5 |
| WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene | 4 |
| International Monetary Fund, International Financial Statistics | 3 |
| World Health Organization, Global Health Expenditure Database | 3 |
| UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UNICEF, WHO, World Bank, UN DESA) | 3 |
| International Telecommunication Union, World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database | 3 |
| INE Spain | 2 |
| European Central Bank and national central banks, MFI interest rate statistics | 2 |
| United Nations Population Division, World Urbanization Prospects | 2 |
| World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory | 2 |
| UNEP-WCMC and IUCN, World Database on Protected Areas | 2 |
| Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, AQUASTAT | 2 |
| International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics | 2 |
| International Energy Agency | 2 |
| OECD, Infra-annual Labour Statistics | 1 |
| OECD, Consumer price indices | 1 |
| United Nations Population Division, International Migrant Stock | 1 |
| World Bank, International Comparison Program | 1 |
| World Bank | 1 |
| International Monetary Fund, Balance of Payments and International Financial Statistics | 1 |
| WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank Group and UN Population Division (MMEIG) | 1 |
| World Health Organization, Global Health Workforce Statistics; OECD | 1 |
| World Health Organization | 1 |
| WHO and UNICEF estimates of national immunization coverage | 1 |
| World Bank, SDG 7.1.1 Electrification Dataset | 1 |
| World Health Organization, Tracking SDG 7 | 1 |
| International Energy Agency and IRENA via Tracking SDG 7 | 1 |
| Global Burden of Disease Study, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation | 1 |
| World Bank, Poverty and Inequality Platform, from national sources | 1 |
| US National Science Foundation, Science and Engineering Indicators | 1 |
| United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime | 1 |
| International Monetary Fund, Balance of Payments Statistics | 1 |
| International Diabetes Federation, Diabetes Atlas | 1 |
| UNICEF, WHO and World Bank, Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates | 1 |
| UN-Habitat, Urban Indicators Database | 1 |
| World Bank, Entrepreneurship Database | 1 |
| United Nations, Comtrade database | 1 |
| World Bank staff estimates based on IMF balance of payments data | 1 |
| International Civil Aviation Organization | 1 |
| Inter-Parliamentary Union | 1 |
| Food and Agriculture Organization and World Bank population estimates | 1 |
| Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAOSTAT) | 1 |
| UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) | 1 |
| World Health Organization, World Malaria Report | 1 |
| World Health Organization, Global Tuberculosis Report | 1 |
| Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) | 1 |
How sources are chosen
A source is used when its data can be collected automatically from an official, documented service, when its licence allows republishing with attribution, and when the meaning of each value can be fixed precisely. Measures that do not meet these conditions are not published. See the methodology for the checks every update passes.