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General data sources
- Our World in Data: open-access data source for a wide range of indicators
- World Bank Open Data: open-access data source related to development
- OECD data: open-access data source primarily on advanced economies
- Eurostat: European Union data
- Gapminder: open-access data source related to development; all World Development Indicators also available here
- Kaggle: diverse data repository (check the reliability of data before using!)
Field-specific data sources
Ecology
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility (gbif): citizen science based open-access database containing information on species occurrences all across the world
- EDI Data Portal: collection of environmental data and metadata derived from publicly funded research
- Ecological Data Wiki: Wikipedia of ecology data
- International Institute for Sustainable Development- Experimental Lakes Area (IISD-ELA): biological, environmental and meteorological data on freshwater lakes and watersheds
- European Soil Data Centre (ESDAC): biological, physical, and chemical information on the European soils
- DRYAD: open-access research data
- eBird: data collection on bird distribution, abundance, habitat use, and trends
- waterinfo: physical and chemical data on water in the Netherlands
- British Antarctic Survey: database on agriculture, atmosphere, biosphere, climate indicators, cryosphere, human dimension, hydrosphere, land surface, oceans, paleoclimate, solid earth and sun-earth interactions in the antarctic region
- WorldClim: database of high resolution global weather and climate data including future predictions (spatial data)
- Land-Use Harmonization: database of high resolution land use information (spatial data)
Economics
- Total Economy Database: data on GDP and labour statistics for 131 countries (available after creating a free account)
- FRED (US Federal Reserve): mostly US economic data
- Maddison Historical Statistics: GDP per capita and population data for 169 countries between 1000–2018
- DBnomics: collection of publicly available economics data
Political Science
- V-Dem: country and party level measures of democracy (global)
- ParlGov: party and election information (mainly EU)
- EU Open Data Portal: various EU-level data
- CHORUS: large dataset of interest group positions