Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP) — Global Peace Index

Name: Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP) — Global Peace Index
Creator: Institute for Economics & Peace
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Open · redistributedcc-by-nc-sa-4.0-iepConflict & SecuritySociety & Well-Being

Global Peace Index (GPI) ingest. Source: https://www.visionofhumanity.org/resources/global-peace-index/ Publisher: Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) License: Free for research/non-commercial use Coverage: 163 countries, 2008-2024, overall peace score + 23 indicators series_key:…

Redistributable. This source is served as canonical Parquet under the license below, with attribution and provenance preserved.

Coverage

Series catalogued

4,890

Temporal coverage

2008-12-31 – 2026-12-31

Licensing & provenance

License: cc-by-nc-sa-4.0-iep
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
Required attribution: Source: Institute for Economics & Peace, Global Peace Index. Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 — non-commercial use only.
Redistribution: Permitted (served here)
Commercial use: Restricted / no
Modification: Permitted
Provider homepage: https://www.visionofhumanity.org
Provider terms: https://www.economicsandpeace.org/consulting/data-licensing/

Access & mirrors

Download: Select & download gpi series as CSV →
API: Get a free API key, then GET /v1/series/<id>.csv
Canonical landing: https://econdatalibrary.com/gpi
Update cadence: annual
Automated refresh: live — this database is on the daily update run
Update strategy: overwrite if changed
Storage layout: single parquet (data/clean_full/gpi/gpi.parquet) when it succeeds; currently absent (only log/err txt present). Schema: series_key, obs_date, value.

Full description

Structured metadata

schema.org/Dataset (Google Dataset Search)

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Part of the Econ Data Library catalog · metadata generated 2026-08-02 from the central registry · browse all datasets