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Human Development Indices and Indicators 2018

UNDP Human Development Reports Office (HDRO)

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Time Period of the Dataset [?]: September 20, 2018-September 20, 2018 ... More

This dataset updates: Never

Human Development Indices and Indicators: 2018 Statistical update is being released to ensure consistency in reporting on key human development indices and statistics. With its comprehensive statistical annex, our data gives an overview of the state of development across the world, looking at long-term trends in human development indicators across multiple dimensions and for every nation, the 2018 Update highlights the considerable progress, but also the persistent deprivations and disparities.

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UNHCR People of Concern

UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency

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Time Period of the Dataset [?]: June 07, 2021-March 21, 2025 ... More

This dataset updates: Live

Geographic point layer representing all the people of concern's known locations in the world ( Refugees, Internally displaced, Stateless persons and other of concern). The data is displayed by population type and location type (typology adapted from the SPHERE handbook standard).

Humanitarian Response Plans

OCHA Financial Tracking System (FTS)

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Time Period of the Dataset [?]: January 01, 2008-March 21, 2025 ... More

This dataset updates: Live

A live list of all past and present Humanitarian Response Plans, with identifiers for use in International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) reporting and elsewhere. The UN and its partners prepare a Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) plan for a protracted or sudden onset emergency that requires international humanitarian assistance. The plan articulates the shared vision of how to respond to the assessed and expressed needs of the affected population.

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Global: Acute Food Insecurity Country Data

Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC)

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Time Period of the Dataset [?]: January 01, 2017-August 31, 2025 ... More

This dataset updates: As needed

This dataset is part of the data series [?]: IPC - Acute Food Insecurity Classification

The IPC Acute Food Insecurity (IPC AFI) classification provides strategically relevant information to decision makers that focuses on short-term objectives to prevent, mitigate or decrease severe food insecurity that threatens lives or livelihoods. This data has been produced by the National IPC Technical Working Groups for IPC population estimates since 2017. All national population figures are based on official country population estimates. IPC estimates are those published in country IPC reports. There are also country datasets

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COVID-19 Trends and Impact Survey

Data for Good at Meta

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Time Period of the Dataset [?]: May 01, 2020-August 30, 2024 ... More

This dataset updates: As needed

This dataset contains two APIs with daily COVID-19 Trends and Impact Survey data. The University of Maryland API is for accessing global survey data and CMU API is for accessing US survey data.

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Africa - HydroBasin - vectorized polygon layers of hydrographic basins

3iSolution

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Time Period of the Dataset [?]: March 02, 2025-March 02, 2025 ... More

This dataset updates: As needed

HydroBASINS represents a series of vectorized polygon layers that depict sub-basin boundaries at a global scale. The goal of this product is to provide a seamless global coverage of consistently sized and hierarchically nested sub-basins at different scales (from tens to millions of square kilometers), supported by a coding scheme that allows for analysis of catchment topology such as up- and downstream connectivity. HydroBASINS has been extracted from the gridded HydroSHEDS core layers at 15 arc-second resolution. More info: HydroBASINS

Africa - HydroRIVERS - vectorized line network of all African rivers

3iSolution

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Time Period of the Dataset [?]: March 01, 2025-March 01, 2025 ... More

This dataset updates: Never

HydroRIVERS represents a vectorized line network of all global rivers that have a catchment area of at least 10 km² or an average river flow of at least 0.1 m³/sec, or both. HydroRIVERS has been extracted from the gridded HydroSHEDS core layers at 15 arc-second resolution. The global coverage of HydroRIVERS encompasses 8.5 million individual river reaches with an average length of 4.2 km, representing a total of 35.9 million km of rivers globally. HydroRIVERS only includes a limited amount of (mostly geometric) attribute information, such as the river reach length, the distance from upstream headwaters and ocean outlet, the river order, and an estimate of long-term average discharge. Every river reach is also co-registered to the sub-basin of the HydroBASINS database in which it resides (via a shared ID). More information: Hydrosheds - Hydrorivers

Geodatabase

COVID-19 Global Travel Restrictions and Airline Information

WFP - World Food Programme

10000+ Downloads

Time Period of the Dataset [?]: March 16, 2020-March 10, 2023 ... More

This dataset updates: Every day

This data has been collected from various sources and is displayed in this online dashboard: https://geonode.wfp.org/travel Mobile version: https://geonode.wfp.org/travel_mobile The data is divided in two datasets: COVID-19 restrictions by country: This dataset shows current travel restrictions. Information is collected from various sources: IATA, media, national sources, WFP internal or any other. COVID-19 airline restrictions information: This dataset shows restrictions taken by individual airlines or country. Information is collected again from various sources including WFP internal and public sources. The data displayed is a collaborative effort and anybody with more accurate/updated information is highly encouraged to contact WFP GIS unit for Emergencies at the following email address: hq.gis@wfp.org

Global Violent Deaths (GVD) database 2004-2021, 2023 update, version 1.0

Small Arms Survey

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Time Period of the Dataset [?]: January 01, 2004-March 21, 2025 ... More

This dataset updates: Every year

The Global Violent Deaths (GVD) database integrates indicators on the major causes of lethal interpersonal and communal violence—intentional and unintentional homicides, killings in legal interventions, and direct conflict deaths—and combines them in a single violent deaths indicator. These indicators are also reported in a disaggregated format by the sex of the victim and perpetration mechanism, namely firearm killings. The GVD database tracks this information across 222 countries and territories worldwide yearly from 2004 and reports both crude counts and rates per 100,000 population. The input data is retrieved from reliable sources, such as governments, national and international organizations, trusted non-governmental organizations, and verified media outlets. Missing data points are estimated using the methods described in this document. The GVD database is updated annually by the Small Arms Survey, an associated programme of the Geneva Graduate Institute, which strengthens the capacity of governments and practitioners to reduce illicit arms flows and armed violence. This is done through three mutually reinforcing activities: the generation of policy-relevant knowledge, the development of authoritative resources and tools, and the provision of training and other services. The GVD database benefits from financial support from governments and organizations, and notably its core donors, who are publicly disclosed online. The Small Arms Survey follows rigorous procedures to ensure that the input data, the applied methods, and the results are of reasonable quality. If the user encounters apparent errors, they should contact us via email at media@smallarmssurvey.org. Regions, sub-regions, countries, and territories are defined based on the classification system used by the UN Statistical Division (2013 revision), except for Kosovo, England and Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland. The names and designations reported in the database do not imply any sort of endorsement by the Small Arms Survey.

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Cross Gender Ties

Data for Good at Meta

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Time Period of the Dataset [?]: January 30, 2025-January 30, 2025 ... More

This dataset updates: As needed

Data from the paper "Cross-Gender Social Ties Around the World", which is available here.

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Countries and Territories

OCHA Digital Services

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Time Period of the Dataset [?]: April 15, 2020-March 21, 2025 ... More

This dataset updates: Live

Contains Country and Territory names from the United Nations Protocol and Liaison Office (DGACM), UN m49 standard, and ReliefWeb Countries list, together with mappings to related Terms and IDs found in UNTERM, ISO 3166, the humanitarianresponse.info API, and the FTS API. For more information, please visit http://vocabulary.unocha.org/

Africa - Population Estimate

3iSolution

10+ Downloads

Time Period of the Dataset [?]: January 01, 2024-December 31, 2024 ... More

This dataset updates: Every year

The Africa Population (Live) counter shows a continuously updated estimate of the current population of Africa delivered by Worldometer's RTS algorithm, which processes data collected from the United Nations Population Division. From https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/africa-population/

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Global Organisations

HDX

Time Period of the Dataset [?]: March 18, 2020-December 31, 2024 ... More

This dataset updates: Every three months

This dataset contains standardised Organisation data

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Neonatal mortality rate

UNICEF Data and Analytics (HQ)

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Time Period of the Dataset [?]: January 01, 1951-December 31, 2022 ... More

This dataset updates: As needed

The neonatal mortality rate is the probability that a child born in a specific year or period will die during the first 28 completed days of life if subject to age-specific mortality rates of that period, expressed per 1000 live births. Neonatal deaths (deaths among live births during the first 28 completed days of life) may be subdivided into early neonatal deaths, occurring during the first 7 days of life, and late neonatal deaths, occurring after the 7th day but before the 28th completed day of life.

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Indicator 6.3.2: Proportion of bodies of water with good ambient water...

Esri

60+ Downloads

Time Period of the Dataset [?]: November 09, 2018-November 09, 2018 ... More

This dataset updates: Every year

Series EN_H2O_WBAMBQ: Proportion of bodies of water with good ambient water quality (%) Indicator 6.3.2: Proportion of bodies of water with good ambient water quality Target 6.3: By 2030, improve water quality by reducing pollution, eliminating dumping and minimizing release of hazardous chemicals and materials, halving the proportion of untreated wastewater and substantially increasing recycling and safe reuse globally Goal 6: Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all Release Version: 2018.Q2.G.01

Global Pandemic and Epidemic-Prone Disease Outbreaks

Disease Outbreaks Data Project

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Time Period of the Dataset [?]: January 01, 1996-March 08, 2025 ... More

This dataset updates: Every month

The dataset includes information on over 3,000 pandemic- and epidemic-prone disease outbreaks associated with more than 90 different infectious diseases, occurring globally from January 1996 to the present.

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World - Active Country based Pooled fund

Country-Based Pooled Funds (OCHA)

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Time Period of the Dataset [?]: August 09, 2018-August 09, 2018 ... More

This dataset updates: Live

Active Country based Pooled fund

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Peace and Security Pillar: Quick Impact Projects

United Nations Peace and Security Data Hub

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Time Period of the Dataset [?]: July 01, 2015-March 21, 2025 ... More

This dataset updates: Every three months

This dataset is part of the data series [?]: UN Peace and Security Data Hub - Peace and Security Data

A list of Quick Impact Projects (QIPs) managed by UN peacekeeping operations.

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EM-DAT - Country Profiles

Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters

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Time Period of the Dataset [?]: January 01, 2000-December 30, 2024 ... More

This dataset updates: Every week

Aggregated figures for Natural Disasters in EM-DAT Documentation on the Country Profiles available here More on the EM-DAT database : website / data portal Each line corresponds to a given combination of year, country, disaster subtype and reports figures for : number of disasters total number of people affected total number of deaths economic losses (original value and adjusted)

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Facebook Social Connectedness Index

Data for Good at Meta

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Time Period of the Dataset [?]: October 13, 2021-March 15, 2024 ... More

This dataset updates: As needed

We use an anonymized snapshot of all active Facebook users and their friendship networks to measure the intensity of connectedness between locations. The Social Connectedness Index (SCI) is a measure of the social connectedness between different geographies. Specifically, it measures the relative probability that two individuals across two locations are friends with each other on Facebook. Details on the underlying data and the construction of the index are provided in the “Facebook Social Connectedness Index - Data Notes.pdf” file. Please also see https://dataforgood.facebook.com/ as well as the associated research paper “Social Connectedness: Measurement, Determinants and Effects,” published in the Journal of Economic Perspectives (https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.32.3.259). Region identifiers are taken from GADM v2.8 https://gadm.org/download_country_v2.html. Future versions will update IDs to be compatible with the newest GADM version.

Data on forcibly displaced populations and stateless persons (Global)

UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency

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Time Period of the Dataset [?]: January 01, 1951-June 30, 2024 ... More

This dataset updates: Every year

This dataset is part of the data series [?]: UNHCR - Data on forcibly displaced populations and stateless persons

Data collated by UNHCR, containing information about forcibly displaced populations and stateless persons, spanning across more than 70 years of statistical activities. The data includes the countries / territories of asylum and origin. Specific resources are available for end-year population totals, demographics, asylum applications, decisions, and solutions availed by refugees and IDPs (resettlement, naturalisation or returns).

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Global Subnational Population - Humanitarian

FieldMaps

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Time Period of the Dataset [?]: September 13, 2024-September 13, 2024 ... More

This dataset updates: Every month

Original site: https://fieldmaps.io/data/population Population statistics using data from WorldPop Unconstrained Individual Countries to create a complete global coverage population raster. Results are aggregated to humanitarian edge-matched boundaries, adjusted so that ADM0 totals match those of the 2024 projections in the United Nations World Population Prospects.

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Copernicus Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL)

Copernicus

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Time Period of the Dataset [?]: January 01, 2025-December 31, 2025 ... More

This dataset updates: Every year

Open and free data for assessing the human presence on the planet. The Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) project produces global spatial information, evidence-based analytics, and knowledge describing the human presence on the planet. The GHSL relies on the design and implementation of spatial data processing technologies that allow automatic data analytics and information extraction from large amounts of heterogeneous geospatial data including global, fine-scale satellite image data streams, census data, and crowd sourced or volunteered geographic information sources. The JRC, together with the Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO) and Directorate-General for Defence Industry and Space (DG DEFIS) are working towards a regular and operational monitoring of global built-up and population based on the processing of Sentinel Earth Observation data produced by European Copernicus space program. In addition, the EU Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA) undertakes activities related to user uptake of data, information and services.

GeoTIFF

Global International Boundaries - USGS

FieldMaps

600+ Downloads

Time Period of the Dataset [?]: September 13, 2024-September 13, 2024 ... More

This dataset updates: Every month

Original site: https://fieldmaps.io/data/adm0 International boundaries in two versions using US DoS LSIB for boundaries and U.S. Geological Survey for coastline data. International: Balanced world view for use by international non-governmental organizations. Disputed areas follow recommended representation used by the UN Clear Map. UN agencies should use official layers at the UN Geospatial Hub. All: Conservative world view that dissagregates all disputed areas. Useful if applying customized area aggregations.

Global International Boundaries - OSM

FieldMaps

1100+ Downloads

Time Period of the Dataset [?]: September 13, 2024-September 13, 2024 ... More

This dataset updates: Every month

Original site: https://fieldmaps.io/data/adm0 International boundaries in two versions using US DoS LSIB for boundaries and OpenStreetMap for coastline data. International: Balanced world view for use by international non-governmental organizations. Disputed areas follow recommended representation used by the UN Clear Map. UN agencies should use official layers at the UN Geospatial Hub. All: Conservative world view that dissagregates all disputed areas. Useful if applying customized area aggregations.