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

Coverage

Series catalogued

396

Temporal coverage

1963-12-31 – 2026-12-31

Frequencies

Annual

Distinct geographies

Licensing & provenance

License: un-data-terms
License URL: https://data.un.org/Host.aspx?Content=UNdataUse
Required attribution: Source: United Nations Statistics Division, SDG Indicators Database (UNdata cited as the reference).
Redistribution: Permitted (served here)
Commercial use: Yes
Modification: Permitted
Provider homepage: https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/dataportal
Provider terms: https://data.un.org/Host.aspx?Content=UNdataUse

How to cite

United Nations Statistics Division, Sustainable Development Goal Indicators Database, via the SDG API (unstats.un.org/SDGAPI). Redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library under the UNdata Terms of Use; UNdata is cited as the reference.

Processing: Retrieved per series code from the UN SDG API, normalized to a long {series_key, obs_date, value} schema (key = code:geoArea with all non-trivial dimensions) and stored as zstd Parquet. This id downloads the code's full table.

Access & mirrors

Download: Select & download unsdg series as CSV →
API: Get a free API key, then GET /v1/series/<id>.csv
Canonical landing: https://econdatalibrary.com/unsdg
Update cadence: irregular
Automated refresh: live — this database is on the daily update run
Update strategy: overwrite if changed
Storage layout: single parquet: data/clean_full/unsdg/unsdg.parquet (~18 MB), rewritten in full at each 100-series checkpoint and at the end (it accumulates all_keys/all_dates/all_vals in memory then pq.write_table the whole table). Schema: series_key (string), obs_date date32 (Dec 31), value float64. Keys: {seriesCode}:{geoAreaCode}{|dim=val|...} with up to 3 sorted dimensions appended.

Full description

UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Database — 713 series, 200+ countries. License: CC BY 4.0 Source: https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/ No API key required. Coverage: * All 17 SDG goals, 169 targets, 713 unique series * Countries, world regions, income groups * ~2000–present (varies by indicator) API: https://unstats.un.org/sdgapi/v1/sdg/ Run: python jobs/ingest_unsdg.py

Structured metadata

schema.org/Dataset (Google Dataset Search)

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

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  },
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  "url": "https://econdatalibrary.com/unsdg",
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  "distribution": [
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