Datasets below are provided as suggestions by the UN Datathon organizers and our partners.

Participants are welcome to use any other publicly available datasets as well and combine them with the datasets provided by the organizers.

The only requirement for Datasets used in your projects is that must be publicly and openly available datasets and must be available for free during the period of the UN Datathon. For more information, please see UN Datathon Essentials



Data Portal

Organisation

URL

TAGS

ADB Open Data

Asian Development Bank

https://data.adb.org/search/content/type/dataset

Climate Change

Biodiversity loss

Air emissions

Population

CDP Climate Data

CDP Worldwide

https://data.cdp.net/

Climate Change

CEPALSTAT

ECLAC

https://statistics.cepal.org/portal/cepalstat/index.html?lang=en


Population

Employment

Education

Energy

Waste

Climate change data by ESA

European Space Agency (ESA)

https://climate.esa.int/en/odp/#/dashboard


Climate Change

Food and Agricultural organisation of the UN Data Portal

FAO

https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data


Food

Air emissions

FAO Data in Emergencies Hub

FAO

https://data-in-emergencies.fao.org/

Data in Emergencies (DIEM) Information System

In recognition of the need to better understand the impact of shocks on agricultural livelihoods in food crisis contexts, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) established the Data in Emergencies Information System. Driven by regularly collected primary data in food crisis countries, its objective is to inform decision-making in support of agricultural livelihoods in fragile and shock-prone environments. Since the launch of the DIEM Hub in June 2020, DIEM surveys have been completed in over 30 countries reaching approximately 150 000 households per year. At the center of the DIEM Information System is the DIEM-Monitoring System which performs regular, standardized and frequent household surveys. 


Food

SDG

Population

Emergency

Socio-economic

Agriculture

Resilience

Livelihood

ILO Data catalog

ILO

https://ilostat.ilo.org/data/data-catalogue/


Employment

Social Protection

Open Climate Data

Open Climate Data

https://openclimatedata.net/

Climate Change

Green House Gas Data

UN FCCC

https://unfccc.int/topics/mitigation/resources/registry-and-data/ghg-data-from-unfccc

Air emissions

UN-Habitat Data Portal

UN Habitat

https://data.unhabitat.org/pages/datasets



Digital connectivity

UNFPA Data Portal

UN Population Fund

https://pdp.unfpa.org/search


Population

World Environment Situation Room

UNEP

https://wesr.unep.org/

Biodiversity loss

Climate Change

Pollution

Waste

Air emissions

Energy

UNICEF Data Portal

UNICEF

https://data.unicef.org/resources/resource-type/datasets/


Climate Change

Education

The Humanitarian Data Exchange

UN-OCHA

https://data.humdata.org/

20,188 data files


Climate Change

Education

Energy

Food

Population

UN Data Commons for the SDGs

UNSD

https://unstats.un.org/UNSDWebsite/undatacommons/sdgs/

Explore SDG Data by Countries or Areas



SDG

Global SDG database

UNSD

https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/dataportal

SDG

UN Data - Datamarts

UNSD

http://data.un.org/Explorer.aspx

Energy

Waste

Food

Air emissions

Employment

Education

Population

Digital connectivity

Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool

UN-WCMC

https://www.ibat-alliance.org/

Biodiversity loss

World Food Program Data

WFP

https://data.humdata.org/organization/wfp

507 data files

Food

Climate Change


Global - Food Prices

WFP

https://data.humdata.org/dataset/global-wfp-food-prices


Food

World Bank Data Bank

World Bank

https://databank.worldbank.org/home


Education

World Development Indicators

World Bank

https://databank.worldbank.org/source/world-development-indicators


Food

Energy

World Bank Microdata Library

World Bank

https://microdata.worldbank.org/index.php/catalog/?page=1&ps=15

5,357 survey data files

1,499 data sets from 2019 to 2023

Food

Population

Education

Energy Data

World Bank Group

https://energydata.info/dataset

977 data files

Energy

WorldPop Data catalog

WorldPOP

https://www.worldpop.org/datacatalog/

Population data


Population

World Resources Institute Open Data Portal

WRI

https://datasets.wri.org/dataset



Climate Change