StatsNode finds open data about the countries of the world, unifies it, explains it and lets you compare it - always with a link to where each number comes from.
Country data come from open sources that cover the whole world with one method - the World Bank's World Development Indicators first, then the ILO, FAO, UNDP, UNHCR, the UN Population Division, Ember and the Global Carbon Project - so that numbers from different countries are measured the same way. Every indicator page names its source; the full list with licences is on the sources page. Rankings use the latest year in which at least half of the countries have a value. Continent figures are medians of their countries - the middle country, not an average pulled by the largest.
For Europe there is a separate, more detailed section built on Eurostat data, with regions and EU-specific indicators. It measures with different methods, so its numbers are never mixed with the world data.
StatsNode compares every country with the whole - the world, its continent, the median - never with one chosen country.
We download data from public interfaces of the sources listed on the
sources page. Our requests identify themselves as
StatsNodeBot/1.0 (+https://www.statsnode.com/about/) and wait at least two
seconds between requests to the same server. Before downloading we ask the source whether
anything has changed (a small request for the date of the last update) and fetch the data
only when a new release is out.
StatsNode is operated by Adam Haken, VAT ID CZ686166382. Questions, corrections and data providers: info@statsnode.com.
