World data and statistics · by Gapminder Foundation
Gapminder
A Swedish foundation that offers free animated bubble-chart tools, teaching material, and hundreds of country indicators as CSV files.
Its moving bubble charts show how countries' health and wealth changed over time and often overturn common assumptions about the world.
DownloadCommercial OKFor your project
- Official API
- API unclear
- Formats
- CSV
- Data download
- Yes csv, xlsx
“The complete datasets with hundreds of indicators are available in Github repositories:” gapminder.org/data/
- License
- CC BY 4.0 Gapminder material and Gapminder-created datasets; credit original sources too
- Commercial use
- Commercial use OK
“Sell: You are allowed to include the material in commercial products or services that you charge for.” gapminder.org/free-material/
- Credit
- Credit required
“Data can be reused freely but please attribute the original data source (where applicable) and Gapminder.” gapminder.org/data/
- Embedding
- Embedding unclear
- Using the website
- Free
Read on Gapminder's own pages on Oct 23, 2026 · license or terms. Check the license page before you ship.
For your agent
No official API. An agent should not scrape the site: use it by hand or through its downloads.
- There is no REST API; read the DDFcsv files from the open-numbers GitHub repos (raw.githubusercontent.com) instead.
- Cite Gapminder with a link to gapminder.org and credit the original data source
- Do not use the word GAPMINDER in your product name
Paste into your agent: Read https://agentgid.com/resources/gapminder/agent.md before using Gapminder.
What you can build
- An animated bubble chart of income vs life expectancy using the Systema Globalis CSVs
- A 'guess the trend' quiz built on Gapminder indicators with the required citation
- A classroom widget comparing two countries across several indicators
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