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01 · Entity

About Our World in Data

Our World in Data ourworldindata.org

Our World in Data

Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.

Wikidata: website that presents data and statistics of socially relevant topics

Top 10K · #3,693 English 8 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026

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Summary by Claude

Free, openly licensed research articles and interactive charts and datasets on global issues such as health, poverty, climate, energy, population and economics.

Who it’s for

Researchers, journalists, educators, policymakers, general public

Business model

Donations and grants

• open data publication
• interactive data charts
• global development statistics
• CO2 and energy data
• poverty and inequality data
• global health data
• population demographics
• COVID-19 data
• open access datasets

02 · Embedding space

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   worldometers.info Top 10K English

   Worldometer - real time world statistics

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   OpenStreetMap openstreetmap.org Top 1K English

   OpenStreetMap

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   Statista statista.com Top 1K English

   Statista - The Statistics Portal for Market Data, Market Research and Market Studies

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   ScienceDaily sciencedaily.com Top 10K English

   ScienceDaily: Your source for the latest research news

   Breaking science news and articles on global warming, extrasolar planets, stem cells, bird flu, autism, nanotechnology, dinosaurs, evolution -- the latest discoveries in astronomy, anthropology, biology, chemistry, climate & environment, computers, engineering, health & medicine, math, physics, psychology, technology, and more -- from the world's leading universities and research organizations.

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   Zenodo

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   Europe PubMed Central europepmc.org Top 10K English

   database of biomedical research

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   OSF

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   World Health Organization who.int Top 1K English

   World Health Organization (WHO)

   The United Nations agency working to promote health, keep the world safe and serve the vulnerable

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   Khan Academy khanacademy.org Top 10K English

   Client Challenge

   non-profit educational organization

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    Pew Research Center pewresearch.org Top 10K English

    Pew Research Center | Nonpartisan, nonadvocacy, public opinion polling and data-driven social science research

    Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World

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    ScienceAlert sciencealert.com Top 10K English

    ScienceAlert : The Best in Science News And Amazing Breakthroughs

    The latest science news. Publishing independent, fact-checked reporting on health, space, nature, technology, and the environment.

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    De Gruyter Brill

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    Census.gov | U.S. Census Bureau Homepage

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14. 14
    Open Library openlibrary.org Top 10K English

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    International Energy Agency iea.org Top 10K English

    autonomous intergovernmental organisation

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    JSTOR jstor.org Top 10K English

    Client Challenge

    distributor of eBooks and other digital media

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    medRxiv medrxiv.org Top 10K English

    medRxiv.org - the preprint server for Health Sciences

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    ProPublica propublica.org Top 10K English

    ProPublica — Investigative Journalism and News in the Public Interest

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    PLOS plos.org Top 10K English

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    Office for National Statistics ons.gov.uk Top 10K English

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04 · Fingerprints

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