unsdg

Unsdg

Name: Unsdg
Creator: Unsdg

Metadata onlyLicense under review

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)…

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 unsdg series as CSV →
API: Get a free API key, then GET /v1/series/<id>.csv
Canonical landing: https://econdatalibrary.com/unsdg.html
Update cadence: irregular
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

Structured metadata

schema.org/Dataset (Google Dataset Search)

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}

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

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  "publisher": {
    "@type": "sc:Organization",
    "name": "Econ Data Library",
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Part of the Econ Data Library catalog · metadata generated 2026-07-14 from the central registry · browse all datasets