Gapminder

Name: Gapminder
Creator: Gapminder

Metadata onlyLicense under review

Gapminder open data — systema globalis (615 indicators × 200+ countries). License: CC BY 4.0 Source: https://github.com/open-numbers/ddf--gapminder--systema_globalis No API key required (public GitHub). Strategy: * List all datapoint CSV files in the repo via GitHub API * Download each: geo, time,…

Metadata only. This source’s license does not permit redistribution, so we catalog its metadata but do not re-serve the data. Use the provider link to obtain it under the original terms.

Licensing & provenance

License: License under review
Redistribution: Not permitted (metadata only)
Commercial use: Restricted / no
Modification: Permitted

Access & mirrors

Download: Select & download gapminder series as CSV →
API: Get a free API key, then GET /v1/series/<id>.csv
Canonical landing: https://econdatalibrary.com/gapminder.html
Update cadence: irregular
Update strategy: overwrite if changed
Storage layout: single file data/clean_full/gapminder/gapminder.parquet (14 MB), zstd. Schema: series_key='{indicator}:{geo}', obs_date(date32, Dec-31), value(float64). Built fully in memory then one pq.write_table at the end (the FLUSH_EVERY=100000 constant at line 147 is defined but NEVER used -- there is no incremental flush). Non-atomic.

Full description

Structured metadata

schema.org/Dataset (Google Dataset Search)

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Croissant (ML-ready, schema.org JSON-LD)

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Part of the Econ Data Library catalog · metadata generated 2026-07-14 from the central registry · browse all datasets