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Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) — Open Data Portal / Numbers for Development

Name: Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) — Open Data Portal / Numbers for Development
Creator: Inter-American Development Bank
License: https://data.iadb.org

Open · redistributedaudit-restricted-idbDevelopment Indicators

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

Coverage

Series catalogued

18,838

Temporal coverage

1932-12-31 – 2026-12-31

Licensing & provenance

License: audit-restricted-idb
License URL: https://data.iadb.org
Required attribution: Source: Inter-American Development Bank, IDB Open Data. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Redistribution: Permitted (served here)
Commercial use: Restricted / no
Modification: Restricted
Provider homepage: https://data.iadb.org
Provider terms: https://data.iadb.org/dataset/idb-data-portals

How to cite

Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) — Open Data Portal / Numbers for Development. Retrieved from https://data.iadb.org. Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.

Processing: Retrieved from the official source, normalized to a long {series_key, obs_date, value} schema (period-start dates), de-duplicated, and stored as zstd Parquet. Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.

Access & mirrors

Download: Select & download idb series as CSV →
API: Get a free API key, then GET /v1/series/<id>.csv
Canonical landing: https://econdatalibrary.com/idb
Update cadence: irregular
Automated refresh: live — this database is on the daily update run
Update strategy: bulk snapshot if changed
Storage layout: per-resource files: data/clean_full/idb/<pkg_slug>__<resource_id[:8]>.parquet (observed ~555 files). Schema series_key(str), obs_date(date32), value(float64). series_key = IDB:<slug>:<indicator>:<country> (or IDB:<slug>:<numeric_col>:<country> for wide resources).

Full description

IDB (Inter-American Development Bank) CKAN open-data ingest. Source: https://data.iadb.org (CKAN portal, no API key required) License: CC BY (IDB open data) Fetches all 217+ datasets from the IDB CKAN portal via the datastore API. Converts each resource to long-format parquet: {series_key, obs_date, value}. For datasets with clear indicator+country+date+value structure, these are used directly. For other shapes, numeric columns become separate series. Run: python jobs/ingest_idb.py python jobs/ingest_idb.py --list # list packages, no download

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 2026-08-02 from the central registry · browse all datasets