Data Collaboratives

UNCTAD offers statistics critical for understanding global trade, investment, and development issues. It provides data on everything from maritime transport and commodity trade to foreign direct investment flows, crucial for policymakers, researchers, and businesses aiming to grasp the intricacies of global economics and its impact on development.

This platform offers data on global development. It encompasses a wide array of indicators related to health, education, economic policy, infrastructure, and poverty, making it indispensable for anyone looking to conduct comprehensive research on developmental progress, economic trends, and policy impacts across countries and regions.

 This database provides a broad spectrum of statistics from the OECD, covering areas such as economy, education, health, and innovation. It is key for conducting comparative analyses of policy and performance across the world’s most developed countries, offering insights into best practices in governance, social progress, and economic management.

As the statistical office of the European Union, Eurostat offers detailed statistics on a wide range of topics relevant to the EU, including economic indicators, population and social conditions, health, and environmental data. It is an essential source for anyone studying the European Union’s dynamics, providing a basis for policy analysis and comparison between EU member states. 

The International Telecommunication Union provides data on the global Information and Communication Technology sector, offering insights into internet usage, telecommunications infrastructure, and technology adoption rates. This data is critical for understanding digital divides, guiding ICT policy, and evaluating the global progress towards a more connected world.

 The International Labour Organization’s database is the go-to source for international labor statistics, offering data on employment, wages, working conditions, and more. It supports analysis of labor market trends, informs policy decisions on employment and social protection, and helps track progress towards decent work for all.

The Food and Agriculture Organization’s statistics database offers comprehensive data on food production, environment, food security, and nutrition. It is instrumental in tackling global hunger and malnutrition, supporting sustainable agriculture practices, and informing food policy and planning.

This World Health Organization database offers comprehensive data on global health indicators, disease outbreaks, and health systems. It is a primary resource for public health research, policy-making, and tracking progress towards health-related sustainable development goals.

The United Nations Environment Programme offers data on environmental indicators, including climate change, biodiversity, and pollution. It is essential for environmental policy analysis, supporting sustainable development efforts, and tracking progress on environmental goals.

The SDG Indicators Database provides a comprehensive collection of data for tracking progress towards the SDGs. It includes global, regional, and country-level indicators across all 17 goals, which address a wide range of development issues from poverty and education to environmental sustainability and economic growth. 

 The Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) are international household surveys developed by UNICEF to collect data on the well-being of children and women. MICS surveys cover a wide range of topics including health, education, child protection, and HIV/AIDS, providing essential data for creating policies, monitoring progress towards national goals and global commitments like the SDGs.

The Global Carbon Project publishes data on global carbon emissions and their sources, including detailed analyses of CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion and other activities. It aims to develop a comprehensive understanding of the global carbon cycle and provides insights into how human activities impact this cycle. The project’s data are crucial for climate change research, policy-making, and efforts to mitigate carbon emissions globally.

The Human Development Report Office’s Human Climate Horizons initiative provides data and analysis focusing on the intersection of human development and climate change. It aims to assess how climate change impacts human progress and explores strategies for sustainable development in a warming world. This initiative emphasizes the need for equitable and inclusive approaches to climate action, highlighting how climate change disproportionately affects the world’s most vulnerable populations and offering insights into building resilience and adaptive capacities.

The Human Development Report Office’s Human Development Index and Other Composite Indices provide a multidimensional perspective on human progress, combining indicators of health, education, and income. The HDI is a summary measure for assessing long-term progress in three basic dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life, access to knowledge, and a decent standard of living. Other indices, such as the Gender Inequality Index (GII), the Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI), and the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), offer insights into disparities and challenges that affect development outcomes.

The World Inequality Database provides extensive data on global income and wealth inequality. It compiles and analyzes data collected from various countries to illustrate the distribution of income and wealth both within and between countries. This database is a crucial resource for understanding the dynamics of inequality worldwide, offering insights into how economic resources are allocated and how inequality impacts socioeconomic development.

The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) publishes data related to parliamentary systems worldwide, including information on the structure and functioning of parliaments, gender parity among parliamentarians, youth engagement in parliamentary processes, and legislative measures on various issues. This data is crucial for understanding global trends in democratic governance, legislative developments, and the representation of diverse groups within political systems.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is a global organization working to save lives, protect rights and build a better future for refugees, internally displaced communities and stateless people. Their work ensures that everybody has the right to seek asylum and find refuge from violence or persecution.

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency. Their mission is to deliver a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person’s potential is fulfilled. The UNFPA Data Portal includes data relevant to sexual and reproductive health and population trends.

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) supports humanitarian organizations to respond effectively to the needs of people caught in crises, to understand and analyze their needs, and to mobilize international assistance. They provide tools and services to help humanitarian organizations ensure that no one affected by a crisis is left behind.

The WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (JMP) has reported country, regional and global estimates of progress on drinking water, sanitation and hygiene since 1990. The JMP maintains an extensive global database and has become the leading source of comparable estimates of progress at national, regional and global levels.