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Poverty, disease, hunger, climate change, war, existential risks, and inequality: The world faces many great and terrifying problems at the same time. It is these large problems that our work at Our World in Data focuses on.

Many data sources compiled on topics such as cancer, death and mortality, and food consumption. All sources are transparent.

In the wake of the renewed racial justice movement in 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic, jurisdictions across the country enacted laws to address health disparities and advance racial equity – as well as laws that may impede these goals.

Provides access to over 140,000 government datasets from 77 agencies and 319 publishers. Data may be manipulated through the many government- and citizen-created apps available on the site.

"This is a list of repositories and databases for open data."

"The GHO data repository contains an extensive list of indicators, which can be selected by theme or through a multi-dimension query functionality. It is the World Health Organization's main health statistics repository."

"Presents current economic and social statistics for more than 200 countries and territories of the world. It contains 55 tables, comprising over 100 indicators, of monthly, quarterly and annual data on a variety of subjects illustrating important economic trends and developments."

access to 34 UN databases containing 60 million records, covering a broad range of data from crime to industry to demographics; population, education, labor-from a variety of global organizations.

Data on education, literacy, culture, communication, science, and technology.

"Free and open access to data about development in countries around the globe"

FEMA’s data delivery platform which provides datasets to the public in open, industry standard, machine-readable formats.