Data sources

Five-yearly statistics on operational holdings, holding size, land use, irrigation, tenancy and farmer characteristics

Data source AgricultureLand India

IndiaAI's national AI platform — 358+ curated datasets, 220+ models including Indic language LLMs, toolkits, and free GPU compute via AIRAWAT supercomputer

Data source TechnologyGovernance India

Annual institution-level statistics on higher-education enrolment, teachers, courses, results, finance and infrastructure

Data source EducationGender India

Factory-level data on employment, wages, inputs, output, value added, capital, energy use and industrial structure

Data source EconomyLabour India

High-resolution global land and ocean temperature datasets with full uncertainty quantification, assembled from more stations than any other global product

Data source ClimateEnvironment Global, India

Open atlas for viewing, filtering, downloading and contributing Indian geospatial layers, from boundaries and wards to rivers and roads

Data source LandCities India

Geological Survey of India's map and geoscience portal for geology, minerals, geochemistry and exploration layers

Data source LandEnvironment India

ISRO's geoportal — satellite imagery, thematic map layers and administrative boundaries for India

Data source LandCities India

Global BIS statistics on banking, liquidity, derivatives and related financial indicators, with searchable tables and regular release updates

Data source EconomyPublic finance Global

Anonymous reports of bribes paid or refused across India, searchable by department, city, amount and date

Data source TransparencyGovernance India

Near-real-time daily CO₂ emissions estimates for countries and sectors, updated within weeks — the closest thing to a live global emissions pulse

Data source ClimateEnergy Global, India

A friendlier interface over AGMARKNET data — explore prices, arrivals, and trends across thousands of Indian agricultural markets

Data source AgricultureEconomy India

The decennial census — population, household, migration and housing tables down to village and ward level

Data source DemographyHousing India

India's national groundwater agency — aquifer maps, water level and quality data, resource assessments, and reports on a critical water resource

Data source WaterAgriculture India

High-resolution rainfall estimates combining satellite observations and gauge data — 40+ years of quasi-global precipitation at 0.05°, updated daily

Data source ClimateAgriculture Global, India

AI-powered inventory of greenhouse gas emissions from 745 million individual assets worldwide — power plants, ships, factories, farms, and forests

Data source ClimateEnvironment Global, India

WRI's open climate data platform — country-level greenhouse gas emissions, NDCs, climate policies, and linkages across development indicators in one interface

Data source ClimateEnvironment Global, India

Open-access geospatial dataset and polygon boundaries of historical polities and states across the globe from 3400 BCE to the present

Data source Culture & heritageGovernance Global, India

Monthly coal production, dispatch, pithead stock, and royalty statistics by company, state, and grade — the primary source on India's largest energy commodity

Data source EnergyEconomy India

Participatory portal documenting community conserved areas across South Asia, with locations, ecosystems, areas and legal status

Data source LandEnvironment India

Global atmospheric composition — aerosols, reactive gases, greenhouse gases, wildfire emissions, and air quality forecasts, from the EU's Copernicus programme

Data source ClimateEnvironment Global, India

ESA's visual browser for Sentinel satellite imagery — optical, radar, and atmospheric data from the Copernicus constellation, with on-the-fly visualisation

Data source LandEnvironment Global, India

The EU's climate data warehouse — ERA5 reanalysis, seasonal forecasts, projections, satellite observations, and sectoral indicators, all with documented APIs

Data source ClimateEnvironment Global, India

Search Indian court and tribunal cases, orders, hearing histories and outcomes by party, advocate, judge, court or keyword

Data source Law & policingGovernance India

Curated charts and underlying data on how India lives, earns and grows, built for people who are not statisticians

Data source DemographyEconomy India

India's Open Government Data platform — datasets published by ministries, states and departments under a licence that permits commercial reuse

Data source GovernanceTransparency India

Research group publishing SHRUG, an open geographic platform linking Indian census, economic and night-lights data

Data source EconomyDemography India

Official record of the Indian Parliament — questions and answers, debates, bills, committee reports and member details

Data source GovernanceElections India

District-level building volume and monthly nighttime lights for tracking physical capital and economic activity across India

Data source EconomyCities India

Fifth-generation global climate reanalysis from ECMWF — hourly atmospheric, land, and ocean variables from 1940 to near-present at 0.25° resolution

Data source ClimateEnvironment Global, India

Official election results, electoral rolls, candidate affidavits and statistical reports for national and state elections

Data source ElectionsGovernance India

The global reference for disaster impact data — 27,000+ records of natural and technological disasters with deaths, affected people, and damage since 1900

Data source DisastersClimate Global, India

Open electricity data for 200+ geographies — generation by source, capacity, emissions, and imports, with monthly data for key countries including India

Data source EnergyClimate Global, India

Enhanced-resolution land-surface reanalysis — temperature, rainfall, soil moisture, and evaporation at 9 km, from 1950 to near-present, complementary to ERA5

Data source ClimateLand Global, India

MoSPI's own data portal — national accounts, CPI, industrial production, labour force and consumption surveys, with an API

Data source EconomyLabour India

FAO's food and agriculture statistics — production, trade, land use, food balance sheets and emissions, by country since 1961

Data source AgricultureNutrition Global, India

FRED provides downloadable economic and financial time series from many official sources, with graphs, API access, and frequent U.S. macro updates

Data source EconomyPublic finance North America

Open-source exchange rates API tracking daily currency reference data from 84 central banks covering 201 currencies since 1948

Data source EconomyPublic finance Global, India

Food sample testing, adulteration rates, enforcement actions, and state-wise food safety compliance data from the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India

Data source HealthNutrition India

Comparable estimates of mortality, disability, and causes of disease across 200+ countries and over time — the standard reference for global health comparisons

Data source HealthDemography Global, India

The authoritative annual budget of CO₂ sources and sinks — fossil fuel emissions, land-use change, and ocean/land carbon uptake from the Global Carbon Project

Data source ClimateEnvironment Global, India

Open datasets mapping energy infrastructure — power plants, coal mines, solar farms, wind, oil and gas, and steel facilities, all at the facility level

Data source EnergyClimate Global, India

Household-level data on financial inclusion — bank accounts, savings, credit, digital payments, and financial resilience — for 140+ countries including India

Data source EconomyTechnology Global, India

Maps built-up areas, settlement types, and population density over four decades — essential for studying how cities expand through time

Data source CitiesHousing Global, India

Harmonised macroeconomic dataset — 46 variables, 239 countries, 160 sources, from 1086 to present with forecasts, free for academic and nonprofit research

Data source EconomyPublic finance Global, India

Google platform using satellite imagery and ML to delineate farm field boundaries and monitor crop seasons at individual field level

Data source AgricultureTechnology Global, India

Google's multi-petabyte catalog of geospatial datasets — satellite imagery, climate, terrain, land cover, and population data — queryable at planetary scale

Data source ClimateEnvironment Global, India

Monthly GST revenue collections — gross, state-wise, category-wise, and return filing compliance — from the GST Council

Data source EconomyPublic finance India

Household spending and consumption microdata used to study living standards, poverty, inequality and inflation weights

Data source EconomyWelfare India

UN OCHA's open repository of crisis and development data, including administrative boundaries for most countries

Data source DisastersWelfare Global

Global satellite observations of soil moisture, freeze-thaw state, inundation, forest biomass, ocean winds and sea ice

Data source WaterClimate Global, India

The ILO's labour statistics — employment, informality, wages, working time and union density, harmonised across countries

Data source LabourEconomy Global, India

Macroeconomic and financial statistics — balance of payments, government finance, trade and the World Economic Outlook series

Data source EconomyPublic finance Global, India

Daily port calls and maritime trade estimates from vessel movements, with disruption monitoring and supply-chain simulations

Data source EconomyTransport Global, India

CBDT's annual time series on taxpayer counts by income slab, returns filed, direct tax collections and state-wise distributions from FY 2000-01 onwards

Data source EconomyPublic finance India

Pre-delimitation Indian assembly and Lok Sabha constituency shapefiles, standardised to WGS84 — essential GIS layers for electoral and political mapping

Data source ElectionsGovernance India

Indian public datasets cleaned and standardised for research — agriculture, finance, elections, health and education, from ISB's Bharti Institute

Data source AgricultureEconomy India

District-level nighttime lights panel for India (641 districts, 2012–2024) from VIIRS satellite data, with annual radiance statistics and an automated pipeline

Data source EconomyCities India

Unified repository of open geospatial data for India, covering administrative boundaries, transport, hydrology, environment, and an in-browser map maker

Data source LandGovernance India

Research-grade Indian state budget data extracted from expenditure PDFs, with source provenance, validation checks, and multi-language worked examples

Data source Public financeGovernance India, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu

Ministry of Tourism's annual statistics — foreign tourist arrivals, foreign exchange earnings, domestic tourism visits, and state-wise tourism infrastructure

Data source EconomyCulture & heritage India

Water resources information system — rainfall, reservoir levels, groundwater, river flows and water quality across India

Data source WaterAgriculture India

Search more than three crore Indian laws, judgments and orders, cross-linked to statutes, citations, courts, judges and precedents

Data source Law & policingRights India

Harmonised census microdata from 100+ countries — individual records spanning decades, making long-run comparative demographic research possible

Data source DemographyLabour Global, India

Rural and urban wage rates for 46 agricultural and non-agricultural occupations, collected monthly from 600 villages and published as wage rate indices

Data source LabourAgriculture India

A researcher-built database of ongoing land conflicts across India, mapped and documented district by district

Data source LandLaw & policing India

Decades of free satellite imagery from the Landsat programme — the longest continuous Earth observation record, essential for studying change over time

Data source LandEnvironment Global, India

Canonical government codes and mappings for states, districts, villages, panchayats, urban bodies, wards and constituencies

Data source GovernanceCities India

27 official Indian statistical datasets, queryable in plain language from an AI assistant rather than through a download page

Data source EconomyLabour India

Unit-level records from India's national sample surveys — the raw respondent data behind the published aggregates

Data source EconomyLabour India

Repository of animal tracking data where researchers archive, share and analyse studies, hosted by the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

Data source EnvironmentLand Global

NASA's gateway to Earth observation data — fires, vegetation, rainfall, temperature, oceans, ice, and 1,000+ imagery layers through Worldview

Data source ClimateEnvironment Global, India

NASA Goddard Institute's global surface temperature record — one of the four canonical datasets used to measure global warming, with monthly updates since 1880

Data source ClimateEnvironment Global, India

NASA's solar and meteorological data — daily temperature, precipitation, radiation, wind, and humidity from 1981, for renewable energy and agriculture

Data source ClimateEnergy Global, India

India's large-scale household survey on health, nutrition, fertility and women's status, reported down to district level

Data source HealthNutrition India

Daily and monthly electricity generation, capacity, demand, fuel, outages, reservoirs and transmission reports

Data source EnergyEconomy India

Annual national crime statistics compiled from state police records, plus accidental deaths and suicides

Data source Law & policingGender India

NITI Aayog's platform standardising government datasets to a common format so they can be merged across ministries

Data source EconomyDemography India

India's official housing price index — quarterly residential price movements for 50 cities, tracking price, completion, and unsold inventory since 2010

Data source HousingEconomy India

NOAA's archive of historical weather — station-level daily summaries, global hourly data, and normals for tens of thousands of stations worldwide

Data source ClimateEnvironment Global, India

Monthly UPI transaction volumes, values, bank-wise performance, and digital payment adoption across India's real-time payments rail

Data source EconomyTechnology India

Free village boundary shapefiles for all Indian states and UTs — downloadable in GeoJSON, KML, and SHP formats from the National Water Data Portal

Data source LandGovernance India

Open platform for live, hyperlocal PM2.5 and PM10 readings from government, research and community monitors across India

Data source EnvironmentHealth India

OECD statistics across economy, environment, health, education and public governance, with non-member countries including India

Data source EconomyGovernance Global, India

Union, state and municipal budget documents converted from PDFs into machine-readable data you can actually analyse

Data source Public financeGovernance India

Bulk dataset of 32.5M Indian judgment chunks, 1.1M legislation provisions, and tribunal matters, with the scrapers that build it

Data source Law & policingGovernance India

Free open-source weather API — forecasts and historical weather from 1940 using the best global models, with no API key or registration required

Data source ClimateDisasters Global, India

Aggregated ground-level air quality from 150+ countries — harmonised, API-accessible, and far easier to work with than individual government portals

Data source EnvironmentHealth Global, India

Urban data for Indian cities — budgets, mobility, ward boundaries and public records, from official sources and community contributions

Data source CitiesPublic finance India, Karnataka

Open, crowd-sourced historical world map documenting geographic and political boundaries across centuries using OpenStreetMap infrastructure

Data source Culture & heritageDemography Global, India

Open-source database and matching engine consolidating international sanctions, politically exposed persons, and public procurement blacklists

Data source TransparencyGovernance Global, India

A map of the world built and owned by its contributors, and the base layer under a large share of civic mapping work

Data source CitiesTransport Global

Environmental, forest and wildlife clearance applications and decisions for Indian projects, with the documents attached

Data source EnvironmentLand India

India's principal recurring survey of employment, unemployment, labour-force participation and working conditions

Data source LabourEconomy India

Petroleum and natural-gas production, imports, refining, consumption, prices, taxes and industry infrastructure

Data source EnergyEconomy India

The Reserve Bank's statistical warehouse — money, banking, external sector, prices and public finance time series

Data source EconomyPublic finance India

Annual national road crash deaths, injuries, causes, vehicle types, and state-wise data from the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways

Data source TransportHealth India

Large-scale historical database systematically coding the social, political, and institutional evolution of human societies over 5000 years

Data source Culture & heritageDemography Global, India

Thousands of datasets contributed by participating Indian cities covering urban infrastructure, services, mobility, environment, and governance

Data source CitiesGovernance India

Official birth, death, fertility, infant mortality, life expectancy and cause-of-death statistics for India

Data source DemographyHealth India

DPIIT-recognised startups database — 100K+ entities registered with state, sector, gender, and eligibility details, published under the Startup India initiative

Data source EconomyTechnology India

Official administrative boundaries, topographic maps, roads, railways, hydrology, terrain and village boundary products

Data source LandGovernance India

Official monthly merchandise imports and exports by commodity, country, region and Indian port

Data source EconomyTransport India, Global

School-level education statistics for every recognised school in India — enrolment, teachers, facilities and dropout

Data source Education India

Official MSME registration portal with public statistics on registered enterprises by state, sector, social category, gender, and enterprise size

Data source EconomyLabour India

Reported merchandise trade flows between countries by commodity code — around 200 countries and over 99% of world trade, going back decades

Data source Economy Global, India

Official country-level series for all Sustainable Development Goal indicators, with metadata on how each is defined

Data source GovernanceWelfare Global, India

The UN's official population estimates and projections for every country — age structures, fertility, mortality, migration, and urbanisation through 2100

Data source DemographyCities Global, India

UNCTAD's data centre — trade, foreign direct investment, maritime transport, commodities, creative economy, and development indicators for 200+ economies

Data source EconomyTransport Global, India

Single search across the UN system's statistical databases, from population and trade to energy and national accounts

Data source DemographyEconomy Global, India

The Human Development Index and its components, plus inequality, gender and multidimensional poverty indices by country

Data source WelfareHealth Global, India

The global source for education statistics — enrolment, completion, literacy and education spending, by country

Data source EducationPublic finance Global, India

UNHCR statistics on forcibly displaced populations — refugees, asylum-seekers, internally displaced, and stateless people, by country of origin and asylum

Data source MigrationRights Global, India

Statistics on children and women — child mortality, nutrition, education, protection, and water and sanitation, by country

Data source HealthNutrition Global, India

Unified Portal for Agricultural Statistics — crop area, production, yield and price data brought into one place

Data source AgricultureEconomy India

Interactive atlas and open data mapping 4,331 village polygons across 6 states for the Western Ghats Ecologically Sensitive Area notification

Data source EnvironmentLand Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, India

WHO's health statistics repository — mortality, disease burden, health systems and risk factors by country

Data source HealthNutrition Global, India

Firm-level survey data from 150+ countries on constraints, infrastructure, corruption, finance, labour, trade, and productivity — India data from 2014 and 2022

Data source EconomyLabour Global, India

Development indicators for every country back to 1960 — economy, poverty, health, education and infrastructure, with a documented open API

Data source EconomyDemography Global, India

Global gridded climate data — monthly temperature, precipitation, and 19 bioclimatic variables for past, present, and future conditions

Data source ClimateEnvironment Global, India

High-resolution gridded population maps at 100 m — where people live, updated yearly, essential for accessibility, health, and infrastructure research

Data source DemographyHealth Global, India