# Gapminder

A Swedish foundation that offers free animated bubble-chart tools, teaching material, and hundreds of country indicators as CSV files.

- Category: World data and statistics · by Gapminder Foundation
- Website: https://www.gapminder.org/
- Live data: no
- Checked on the official pages: 2026-10-23

## API

- API unclear. Do not scrape the site; use it by hand or through its downloads.

## Data and license

- Download: https://github.com/open-numbers/ddf--gapminder--systema_globalis (csv, xlsx)
- License: CC BY 4.0 (https://www.gapminder.org/free-material/); covers Gapminder material and Gapminder-created datasets; credit original sources too
- Commercial use OK
- Credit required
- Embedding unclear
- Quote (license): "All Gapminder material linking here are freely available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license." (https://www.gapminder.org/free-material/)
- Quote (commercial): "Sell: You are allowed to include the material in commercial products or services that you charge for." (https://www.gapminder.org/free-material/)
- Quote (attribution): "Data can be reused freely but please attribute the original data source (where applicable) and Gapminder." (https://www.gapminder.org/data/)
- Quote (trademark): "Don't include the word "GAPMINDER" in your product or service, except for the required citation." (https://www.gapminder.org/free-material/)
- Quote (download): "The complete datasets with hundreds of indicators are available in Github repositories:" (https://www.gapminder.org/data/)
- Quote (data_license): "Creative Common Attribution 4.0 International" (https://github.com/open-numbers/ddf--gapminder--systema_globalis)
- Quote (developer_route): "If you are developing something and want to work with the full datasets more efficiently you can benefit from DDF data model." (https://www.gapminder.org/data/)

## Rules for an agent

- 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

Human page: https://agentgid.com/resources/gapminder/
Source: AgentGid (agentgid.com). Facts are quoted from the site's own pages; check the license page before you ship.