ourworldindata.org
Our World in Data
Who runs Our World in Data, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest open data publication alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Statista
Measured from Our World in Data’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Our World in Data01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Our World in Data
Our World in Data ourworldindata.org
Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.
Wikidata: website that presents data and statistics of socially relevant topics
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Our World in Data tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
14 of the 17 alternatives below have fewer, 1 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 3 tools
Marketing and email tracking
Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
Privacy-friendly analytics
Counts visits without cookies or personal profiles.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Our World in Data
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Our World in Data, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Statista - The Statistics Portal for Market Data, Market Research and Market Studies
Find statistics, consumer survey results and industry studies from over 22,500 sources on over 60,000 topics on the internet's leading statistics database
Very close - 02
Gapminder
Swedish medical doctor, academic, statistician and public speaker (1948–2017)
Very close - 03
Worldometer - real time world statistics
Live world statistics on population, government and economics, society and media, environment, food, water, energy and health. Interesting statistics with world population clock, forest loss this year, carbon dioxide co2 emission, world hunger data, energy consumed, and a lot more
Very close - 04
Homepage | Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) is an independent global health research center at the University of Washington.
Close - 05
Population Pyramids of the World from 1950 to 2100 - PopulationPyramid.net
A population pyramid shows the age and sex distribution of a population. World in 2026: total population 8,300,678,395. Median age: 32.1 years. Interactive charts from 1950 to 2100.
Close - 06
Zenodo
research data repository
Very close - 07
OpenStax
OpenStax offers free college textbooks for all types of students, making education accessible & affordable for everyone. Browse our list of available subjects!
Very close - 08
Brazil
digital library
Very close - 09
Wikibooks
free multilingual online collection of textbooks
Very close - 10
database of biomedical research
Very close - 11
The Lens - Patent and Scholarly Search and Analysis
The Lens serves all the patents and scholarly work in the world as an open and secure digital public good, with user privacy a paramount focus.
Very close - 12
Home | LibreTexts
open access educational resource collection
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OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.
Very close - 14
Client Challenge
non-profit educational organization
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OpenAlex: The open catalog to the global research system
OpenAlex indexes half a billion scholarly works, with their authors, institutions, sources and topics, and makes them free to search, analyze and reuse through our web app, API and bulk download.
Very close - 16
Making sure you're not a bot!
legal database
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Client Challenge
distributor of eBooks and other digital media
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Welcome to Open Library | Open Library
Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Read, borrow, and discover more than 3M books for free.
Very close - 19
Home - DBpedia Association
DBpedia provides a platform for data, tools and services. Explore current projects and applications and learn about DBpedia datasets.
Very close - 20
medRxiv.org - the preprint server for Health Sciences
medRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by openRxiv, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing scientific communication
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Our World in Data’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Our World in Data uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Our World in Data adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 8 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,199
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 25 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Our World in Data’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- Analytics
- Cloudflare Web Analytics asset https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Marketing automation
- Mailchimp page source: list-manage.com
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a56318918f989303-HAM
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS micah.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=0UraeOsrCN_DOONwlKqUSTJB_Gqalw8g9SX-RDSeMFc
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=3l8ak4yjilg6gd130nmmqhprli67m4
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 15/20
- Google Workspace 12/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on ourworldindata.org 10/20
- Cloudflare DNS 9/20
- Cloudflare 8/20
- Google Analytics · not on ourworldindata.org 7/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on ourworldindata.org 6/20
- jQuery · not on ourworldindata.org 6/20
- PHP · not on ourworldindata.org 4/20
- Meta Business Suite 4/20
- Amazon SES · not on ourworldindata.org 3/20
- Atlassian · not on ourworldindata.org 3/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on ourworldindata.org 3/20
- Google Fonts · not on ourworldindata.org 3/20
- Bootstrap · not on ourworldindata.org 3/20
- Matomo · not on ourworldindata.org 3/20