ACLED collects real-time data on the locations, dates, actors, fatalities, and types of all reported political violence and protest events across Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Central Asia and the Caucasus, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Southeastern and Eastern Europe and the Balkans.
AidData is a collaborative initiative to provide products and services that promote the dissemination, analysis, and understanding of development finance information.
The Constituency-Level Elections Archive (CLEA) is a repository of detailed election results at the constituency level for lower chamber and upper chamber legislative elections from around the world.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration nighttime lights time series. The files are cloud-free composites made using all the available archived DMSP-OLS smooth resolution data for calendar years.
The Facebook Population Density Maps help nonprofit and multilateral agencies plan vaccination campaigns, respond to natural disasters, and evaluate rural electrification plans. These maps help researchers assess the ways in which climate change and urbanization impact where people live.
GADM provides maps and spatial data for all countries and their sub-divisions.
Global Barometer Surveys (GBS) is the first comprehensive effort to measure, at a mass level, the current social, political, and economic atmosphere around the world. It provides an independent, non-partisan, multidisciplinary view of public opinion on a range of policy-relevant issues.
Global Forest Watch offers the latest data, technology and tools that empower people everywhere to better protect forests.
The Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX) is an open platform for sharing data across crises and organisations. Launched in July 2014, the goal of HDX is to make humanitarian data easy to find and use for analysis. Their growing collection of datasets has been accessed by users in over 200 countries and territories.
NASA Landsat satellite imagery and data. Data is available to download on the USGS website.
NASA Earth Observatory Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) data.
OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.
The PRIO-Grid data set is a spatio-temporal grid structure constructed to aid the compilation, management and analysis of spatial data within a time-consistent framework. It consists of quadratic grid cells that jointly cover all terrestrial areas of the world.
Paul Novosad and Sam Asher
The Socioeconomic High-resolution Rural-Urban Geographic Platform for India (SHRUG) is a geographic platform that facilitates data sharing between researchers working on India. It is an open access repository currently comprising dozens of datasets covering India’s 500,000 villages and 8000 towns using a set of a common geographic identifiers that span 25 years.
Uppsala Conflict Data Program collection of datasets related to violence, conflict, and georeferenced events.
The US Crisis Monitor supports data-driven initiatives to build community resilience and facilitate efforts to track, prevent, and mitigate political violence in America. A joint project of the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) and the Bridging Divides Initiative (BDI) at Princeton University, the US Crisis Monitor provides the public with real-time data and analysis on political violence and demonstrations around the country, establishing an evidence base from which to identify risks, hotspots, and available resources to empower local communities in times of crisis.
United States Geological Survey data on Digital Elevation Models.
Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Corrected Reflectance Imagery is produced in near real-time (NRT), providing continuity from the MODIS Corrected Reflectance imagery which was developed to provide natural looking images.
The primary World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially-recognized international sources. It presents the most current and accurate global development data available, and includes national, regional and global estimates.
Free and open access to global development World Bank open data.
The WorldPop project was initiated in October 2013 to combine the AfriPop, AsiaPop, and AmeriPop population mapping projects. It aims to provide an open access archive of spatial demographic datasets for Central and South America, Africa, and Asia to support development, disaster response and health applications.
xSub /cross-sub.org/ is a repository of micro-level, subnational event data on armed conflict and contention around the world. Our goal is to preserve and consolidate multiple open-source data collections in one comprehensive electronic archive, creating a “database of databases” for purposes of research, education, policy-making and evaluation.