Data

Demographics & Development

Population, development, and community statistics for comparing places and scoping who a product serves.

Choose one geography and one indicator, then document the vintage before using it in a planning tool.

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American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates
intermediateLarge
Annual U.S. demographic, housing, social, and economic estimates for building local market-sizing, site-selection, and community comparison tools.

First project: Screen states for a service-market hypothesis

DemographicsJSON +1Key
College Scorecard Institution Data
intermediateSmall
U.S. college cost, completion, debt, and earnings statistics for building school-comparison and program-research tools.

First project: Compare in-state tuition and earnings for California colleges

DemographicsJSON +1Key
Eurostat Statistics API
intermediateSmall
Official European statistical series for building country comparison and release-monitoring tools from a bounded Eurostat dataset.

First project: Track one country's monthly unemployment rate

DemographicsJSON +2No key
FAOSTAT Food and Agriculture
intermediateMedium
Country food, agriculture, and land-use statistics for building commodity and food-security comparison tools.

First project: Track U.S. wheat production

DemographicsJSON +2No key
IDMC Internal Displacement
beginnerTiny
Country-year internal displacement figures for building humanitarian comparison tools alongside refugee statistics.

First project: Compare conflict and disaster displacements

DemographicsExcel +1No key
NCES Common Core of Data
intermediateTiny
Public school and district directory records for building local school maps and enrollment-directory tools.

First project: Map open public schools in one state

DemographicsCSV +1No key
O*NET Occupational Database
beginnerTiny
U.S. occupation titles, skills, and task descriptions for building job-profile and labor-market research tools from published database files.

First project: Browse published O*NET occupation titles

DemographicsCSV +2No key
ONS Statistics API
beginnerSmall
Official UK statistical datasets for building local labour, prices, and population tools from Office for National Statistics.

First project: Read a UK CPIH observation

DemographicsJSON +1No key
Statistics Canada Web Data Service
intermediateSmall
Canadian statistical tables for building provincial labour, prices, and population tools from Statistics Canada SDMX.

First project: Chart a Canadian labour vector

DemographicsJSON +2No key
UNHCR Refugee Population Statistics
beginnerSmall
Official refugee, asylum-seeker, displacement, statelessness, return, and resettlement statistics for building humanitarian trend and flow tools.

First project: Compare displacement stocks by origin

DemographicsJSON +1No key
USDA NASS Quick Stats
intermediateMedium
Official U.S. agricultural survey and census estimates for building commodity and county production monitors.

First project: Look up one state's corn yield

DemographicsJSON +2Key
WHO Global Health Observatory
beginnerMedium
Official country health indicators for building life-expectancy, mortality, and coverage comparison tools.

First project: Chart U.S. life expectancy at birth from GHO

DemographicsJSON +1No key
World Development Indicators
intermediateMedium
Country and regional development indicators spanning economics, health, education, and infrastructure for comparing change over time.

First project: Compare GDP per person over time

DemographicsCSV +2No key
WorldPop Population Estimates
intermediateLarge
Country-level high-resolution national population grids for building catchment, coverage, and demographic-denominator tools.

First project: List Luxembourg's 2020 WorldPop raster metadata

DemographicsJSON +1No key