World data and statistics
Open statistics about countries, people, economies and the internet. 6 resources; API, key, license and embedding quoted from each site's own pages, checked Oct 23, 2026.
Our World in Data
You can watch long-run trends for almost every country side by side, often going back a century or more.
APIDownloadCommercial OK
World Bank Open Data
One simple URL pattern returns decades of population, income, health or energy figures for any country.
API, no keyDownloadCommercial OK
Gapminder
Its moving bubble charts show how countries' health and wealth changed over time and often overturn common assumptions about the world.
DownloadCommercial OK
TÜİK Data Portal (TurkStat)
It is the primary source for official Turkish figures, from inflation to greenhouse gas emissions, in Turkish and English.
DownloadCommercial: conditions
Worldometer
Watching births, deaths and energy use tick upward in real time makes abstract global numbers feel concrete.
LiveNon-commercial
Internet Live Stats
The 'one second' view shows how much happens online in a single heartbeat, which is a striking way to grasp internet scale.
LiveNon-commercial
Side by side
| Resource | API | Key | Data download | Commercial use | Embed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Our World in Data A research publication with over 14,000 interactive charts on health, population, energy, climate, poverty and more, each with downloadable data. |
Official API · Free | Not stated | Yes (csv, json, zip) | Commercial use OK | Can be embedded |
| World Bank Open Data The World Bank's free portal for country-level development indicators, with a keyless API giving access to nearly 16,000 time series indicators. |
Official API · Free | No | Yes (csv, xml, xlsx) | Commercial use OK | Embedding unclear |
| Gapminder A Swedish foundation that offers free animated bubble-chart tools, teaching material, and hundreds of country indicators as CSV files. |
API unclear | — | Yes (csv, xlsx) | Commercial use OK | Embedding unclear |
| TÜİK Data Portal (TurkStat) Turkey's official statistics portal, with datasets on population, economy, prices, environment and more, a data browser, bulk downloads and an SDMX web service. |
API unclear | — | Yes (csv, json, xlsx, sdmx-ml) | Commercial use with conditions | Embedding unclear |
| Worldometer A reference site of world statistics (population, health, energy, environment and more) whose home page shows ticking counters that estimate those figures second by second. |
No official API | — | — | Non-commercial only | Embedding with conditions |
| Internet Live Stats A page of ticking counters estimating internet activity worldwide, such as users, websites, emails, searches, tweets and traffic, with trend pages and a one-second view. |
No official API | — | — | Non-commercial only | Embedding with conditions |