Luciano Cohan

 This dataset includes annual information about the fiscal balance of a wide variety of countries. Both taxes and spending are disaggregated by categories. All variables in LCU (Local Currency Unit), except those expressed as % of GDP.

Fiscal & Debt - Global - World Bank - Public Sector Deficit

The World Bank is a global development organization that provides financial and technical assistance to developing countries for the pursuit of economic development and poverty reduction. It is one of the five institutions that make up the World Bank Group, along with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the International Development Association (IDA), the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA).

World Bank (WB)

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Genaro Fuentes

This dataset incluedes The Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP). It is the world’s main provider of data on organized violence and the oldest ongoing data collection project for civil war, with a history of almost 40 years. Its definition of armed conflict has become the global standard of how conflicts are systematically defined and studied.

Miscellaneous - Global - UCDP - Conflict Incidence

Uppsala University is a public research university in Uppsala, Sweden. Founded in 1477, it is the oldest university in Sweden and the Nordic countries still in operation.

Uppsala University

This dataset includes people that UNHCR protects and/or assists include those who have been forcibly displaced (refugees, asylum-seekers, other people in need of international protection and internally displaced people); those who are stateless (most of whom are not forcibly displaced); and other groups of concern to whom UNHCR has extended its protection or provided assistance on a humanitarian basis. Refugee and IDP returnees are included in the solutions datasets. The data for the latest year (2024) is available up until the mid-year, except IDMC data on Internally Displaced People which is available until end-2023.

Miscellaneous - Global - UNHCR - Refugees

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency works to ensure that everybody has the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge, having fled violence, persecution or war at home.

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

This dataset includes the indicator Poverty headcount ratio at national poverty lines (% of population). National poverty headcount ratio is the percentage of the population living below the national poverty line(s). National estimates are based on population-weighted subgroup estimates from household surveys. For economies for which the data are from EU-SILC, the reported year is the income reference year, which is the year before the survey year.

Labour & Income - Global - World Bank - Poverty headcount ratio at National Poverty Lines

This dataset includes the Gini Index. The Gini index measures the extent to which the distribution of income or consumption among individuals or households within an economy deviates from a perfectly equal distribution. A Gini index of 0 represents perfect equality, while an index of 100 implies perfect inequality.

Labour & Income - Global - World Bank - Gini Index

This dataset includes Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above). Adult literacy rate is the percentage of people ages 15 and above who can both read and write with understanding a short simple statement about their everyday life.

Demographics - Global - World Bank - Literacy Rate

This dataset includes average years of formal education for individuals aged 15–64. Data source: Barro and Lee (2015); Lee and Lee (2016). Formal education refers to primary education (ISCED 1) or higher and does not include years spent repeating grades. Data for years prior to 2015 are estimates, while data from 2015 onwards are projections.

Miscellaneous - Global - OWID - Average years of schooling

Our World in Data (OWID) is a research organization that provides access to data and research on global development and long-term change. The organization's mission is to make data on global development easily accessible and to provide the evidence that is needed to understand and address the world's most pressing problems.

Our World In Data (OWID)

jacques kraemer

This dataset includes the Gender Inequality Index (GII). The GII is a composite measure of gender inequality across three dimensions: reproductive health, empowerment, and the labor market. A low GII value indicates low inequality between women and men, and vice versa.

Miscellaneous - Global - UNDP - Gender Inequality Index (GII)

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the UN's global development network, advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

This dataset includes the World Press Freedom Index. The purpose is to compare the level of freedom enjoyed by journalists and media in 180 countries and territories. The Index is based on a score ranging from 0 to 100 that is assigned to each country or territory, with 100 being the best possible score (the highest possible level of press freedom) and 0 the worst. This score is calculated on the basis of two components: a quantitative tally of abuses against media and journalists in connection with their work; and a qualitative analysis of the situation in each country or territory based on the responses of press freedom specialists (including journalists, researchers, academics, and human rights defenders) to an RSF questionnaire available in 24 languages.

Miscellaneous - Global - Reporters Without Borders - World Press Freedom Index

Reporters Without Borders (RWB) is an international non-profit organisation governed by principles of democratic governance. We are neither a trade union nor a representative of media companies.

Reporters Without Borders

This dataset includes annual information on the Geopolitical Risk Index. The Final Geopolitical Risk Index summarizes the safety of investing in a country with a single score. Therefore, established enterprises or future entrepreneurs can use it to understand where it would be more convenient to invest.

Miscellaneous - Global - Geopolitical Risk Index - GPR

Geopolitical Risk Index

This dataset includes Independence of the Judiciary. Independence of the judiciary indicates the extent to which the judiciary is independent of control from other sources, and includes whether or not judges are safe from removal by other governmental branches or if their actions can be challenged in the courts. The scoring scheme is as follows: as an institution, the judiciary is considered (0) not independent, (1) partially independent, and (2) generally independent.



Miscellaneous - Global - QoG - Independence of the Judiciary

The Quality of Government Institute is an independent research institute within the Department of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg. We are about 30 researchers who conduct and promote research on the causes, consequences and nature of Good Governance and the Quality of Government (QoG) - that is, trustworthy, reliable, impartial, uncorrupted and competent government institutions.

The Quality of Government Institute 

This dataset includes the indicator People using at least basic sanitation services, urban (% of urban population). It represents the percentage of the urban population using at least basic sanitation services—defined as improved sanitation facilities that are not shared with other households. This indicator covers both individuals using basic sanitation services and those with access to safely managed sanitation. Improved sanitation facilities include flush or pour-flush systems connected to piped sewer systems, septic tanks, or pit latrines; ventilated improved pit latrines; composting toilets; and pit latrines with slabs.

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