Public data around the world
A country's commodity indices, exchange references and official statistics can add useful context to research. They need their own units and reporting periods to stay useful.
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1,248 country histories you can open
Global reference now includes 1,248 downloaded World Bank histories across 217 economies, alongside eight currency, inflation and retail-fuel references from the other readers. These are saved observations, with a chart and an exact-value table for each history.
The six country measures are population, GDP, GDP per person, consumer inflation, agriculture's share of GDP and industry's share of GDP. GDP and GDP per person use constant 2015 US dollars. Coverage varies by measure: missing years remain missing, and regional aggregates are excluded from the country list.
Choose a country and a measure, or search for a name. The list shows 30 histories per page so a phone can browse the collection without loading every chart. Annual observations keep their original year labels, including in the chart popup.
The initial country batch contains 31,088 observations from 2000–2025 and required six public API requests. A country history, an indicator and a publisher are different counts: this expansion adds histories from the World Bank, rather than claiming 1,248 separate APIs.
The homepage now has separate Commodities and Country data views. Their counts describe the saved collection in each view. Choose Country data to browse these histories from home; currencies and the other international references remain available from the same workspace.
Five additional official readers
The first international ingestion set contained 21 series. Seven Bank of Canada commodity indices appear with the commodity benchmarks. ECB and Canadian exchange references, German and French consumer inflation, and Malaysian administered retail fuel prices have their own Global reference section. The six original agriculture histories now receive the country-wide update and keep their existing links.
Each history names its publisher, measure, unit and country or coverage. Monthly and annual data retain their source period labels. A plotting date marks the period; it does not imply a daily quote or publication date. Different measures stay separate, and no currency conversion or index rebasing happens silently.
A catalog you can inspect
The source catalog records 31 official providers, including access requirements, reuse conditions and reader readiness. Discovery also collected 1,498 World Bank WDI indicator definitions and 217 economies. These counts describe metadata: they do not mean that every possible country and indicator history has been downloaded or has the same coverage.
Search the catalog to find measures and follow their official documentation. Connected histories and catalog entries carry different labels. Sources requiring registration or further access review remain visible with that status.
Refresh without losing the archive
The scheduled refresh uses one shared request budget for the international series. It makes no automatic retries, retains older history and records superseded observations when a source revises a value. Missing periods stay gaps in the D3 chart. Exact values remain available in the observation table.
These five readers use public endpoints without an account, payment setup or access charge. Optional AI is separate. Source quotas and reuse conditions still apply, and hosting costs remain separate from data access.
The official documentation is available from the Bank of Canada, ECB, Eurostat, World Bank and Malaysia's data portal.