wid

Wid

Name: Wid
Creator: Wid

Metadata onlyLicense under review

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 wid series as CSV →
API: Get a free API key, then GET /v1/series/<id>.csv
Canonical landing: https://econdatalibrary.com/wid.html
Update cadence: annual
Update strategy: bulk snapshot if changed
Storage layout: per-country parquet: data/clean_full/wid/<CODE>.parquet (119 present; series_key=WID:{variable}:{percentile}:{age}:{pop}:{country} / obs_date / value). PLUS a legacy single data/clean_full/wid/wid.parquet (~328 MB) that current main() never writes. Side-car _wid_log.txt.

Full description

World Inequality Database (WID) — income & wealth inequality, 200+ countries, 1820–present. License: CC BY 4.0 Source: https://wid.world/data/ No API key required. Coverage: * Pre-tax and post-tax income shares (top 1%, top 10%, bottom 50%) * Wealth shares and averages * National income, GDP, population * Gini coefficients * All countries + US states + German states + regions * ~1820-present (varies by country) Bulk download: https://wid.world/bulk_download/WID_data_{ISO}.csv Format: country;variable;percentile;year;value;age;pop Run: python jobs/ingest_wid.py

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