An open platform for sharing humanitarian data across crises and organizations. Managed by the Centre for Humanitarian Data at OCHA, part of the United Nations Secretariat.
SEDAC focuses on human interactions in the environment. Data covers a range of topics, such as agriculture, climate, health, infrastructure, remote sensing, poverty, sustainability, water, etc.
GeoQuery enables individuals and organizations of all skill levels to freely find and aggregate satellite, economic, health, aid, conflict, and other spatial data into a single, simple-to-use file compatible with Microsoft Excel and other common software. A research project of AidData.
Real-time data on the locations, dates, actors, fatalities, and types of all reported political violence and protest events around the world. Note: Registration is required to export data sets.
Includes geolocated conflict event data from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program, ACLED, Urban Social Disorder, etc. Also includes data on specific aspects of geography that are often considered to influence the risk and nature of interstate and intrastate conflict.
Data repository of water access points (e.g., boreholes, hand-dug wells, protected springs, etc.). Data is collected from governments and partners in over 50 countries around the world.
Data from the UN's refugee agency on populations of concern, displacement and resettlement rates, etc.
Additional Data Sources
Public and environmental health data sources are located under Health data. Data sources on climate change, energy resources, etc. are located under Energy, Environment, & Climate data.
