Our World in Data alternatives

3 tools to consider instead of Our World in Data, shown against it.

Our World in Data World Bank Open Data Eurostat Data.gov
Vendor Global Change Data Lab The World Bank Group European Commission U.S. General Services Administration
Pricing model Free Free Free Free
Free tier Yes Yes Yes Yes
Deployment Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud
Open source Yes (MIT) No No No
Best for Communicators and researchers who want curated global data paired with explanatory context, free to reuse. Cross-country development and economic research needing free, long-run indicator data. Comparative research across EU member states needing harmonized, methodologically consistent statistics. Anyone needing a single free starting point for US federal government datasets.
Pricing

Free and openly licensed (CC BY for content, MIT for code), funded by philanthropic grants, partner institutions and reader donations.

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Free public data, funded through the World Bank Group's operations and member-country contributions.

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Free public data, funded by the European Commission; reuse permitted under the EU open-data licence.

Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site.

Free public government service; funded by the U.S. General Services Administration.

Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site.

Features
  • Curated long-run datasets aggregated from primary sources
  • Interactive, embeddable charts via iframe
  • Openly licensed data and code (CC BY / MIT) for reuse
  • Grapher tool for building custom charts
  • Topic-based explainer articles pairing narrative with data
  • Full data downloads in CSV
  • Development indicators covering nearly every country
  • Indicator API and bulk CSV/Excel downloads
  • DataBank interactive comparison tool
  • Country and income-group groupings
  • Microdata catalog for underlying household surveys
  • Long historical time series for most indicators
  • Harmonized statistics across all EU member states
  • Bulk download via API and SDMX format
  • Interactive data browser and visualization tools
  • Sub-national (NUTS) regional breakdowns
  • Thematic databases spanning economy, population, environment and trade
  • Free reuse under the EU open-data licence
  • Central catalog of federal agency open datasets
  • Built on the open-source CKAN platform
  • Automatic metadata harvesting from agency portals
  • Topic-based dataset collections
  • Public API for search and retrieval
  • No registration required for access

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