About CountryScope

What you will find here

• Every country and territory in the world, each with its own map and World Bank indicators: population, economy, governance, education, health, environment and technology.
• History since 1960: every indicator for every year, ready to download as Excel or CSV.
• Rankings in the world and in the region, changes over ten years and a comparison with neighbouring countries.
• Side-by-side comparison of up to four countries.
• Materials to print and download: blank maps, flags of the world, country fact sheets and data tables.

Our principles

• Open data only. We use sources whose licences allow free reuse, including commercial reuse, so you can reuse our figures too, with attribution.
• Every figure has a year and a source. The year next to a number links to the indicator at the World Bank.
• No guesswork. If the source has no data for a country, the field stays empty: we do not fill gaps with estimates from elsewhere.
• The same fields for every country, so that countries can be compared fairly.
• Neutrality. Borders and names on the maps are for orientation only and do not express a position on disputed territories.

How the figures are calculated is explained in the methodology.

Who it is for

Students and teachers preparing lessons, homework and reports; journalists checking a figure; travellers and people planning a move; anyone curious about the world.

Free to use

The site is free and requires no registration. Its running costs may be covered by advertising, which has no influence on the data.