World


International Monetary Fund Time series data on lending, exchange rates and other economic and financial indicators.
http://www.imf.org/en/Data


Open Data Soft Comprehensive List of Data Portals SaaS software firm Open Data Soft published this megaportal with links to more than 2600 data portals from governments around the world.
https://www.opendatasoft.com/a-comprehensive-list-of-all-open-data-portals-around-the-world/#/united-states


Open Knowledge International Data Portals List Megaportal and search for 500+ data portals around the world.
http://dataportals.org/


Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development A wide variety of economic indicators, by country. Searchable, and browsable by topic or country.
https://data.oecd.org/


UNdata United Nations open data portal.
http://data.un.org/


UN-Habitat Urban Data United Nations data about 741 cities and 220 countries around the world.
http://urbandata.unhabitat.org/


World Bank Open Data Global development data from World Bank Group, which consists of five multilateral organizations for development, investment and banking.
http://data.worldbank.org/


Africa


Africa Data Highway Economic data from African Development Bank Group.
http://dataportal.opendataforafrica.org/


Open Africa Code for Africa’s independent repository of open data on the African continent, with support from Google, World Bank Group, International Center for Journalists and Open Knowledge.
http://dataportal.opendataforafrica.org/


Antarctica


Antarctic & Southern Ocean Data Portal Geoscience data from the Antarctic region via Marine Geoscience Data System.
http://www.marine-geo.org/portals/antarctic/


Antarctic Geospace Data Portal Funded by the National Science Foundation.
http://www.sienageospace.dreamhosters.com/data-2/


Antarctic National Directory NASA portal to information about Antarctica.
https://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/KeywordSearch/Home.do?Portal=amd&MetadataType=0


Australian Antarctic Data Centre Provides long-term management of Australia's Antarctic data.
https://data.aad.gov.au/


British Antarctic Survey Polar data including environmental, biological, geological and meteorological datasets, to specimens, maps, and photographs.
https://www.bas.ac.uk/data/our-data/


Climate Change Initiative European Space Agency climate data, including information about both poles.
http://cci.esa.int/data


U.S. Antarctic Program Data Center Supports investigators funded by the National Science Foundation in documenting, preserving, and disseminating their research results.
http://www.usap-dc.org/


Asia


Asia-Pacific Sustainable Development A partnership between the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
http://data.unescap.org/sdg/


Asian Development Bank Statistics and Databases Covers social, economic, and financial indicators relating of developing nations.
https://www.adb.org/data/statistics


Biodoversity Ecosystem Functioning Data from Chinese-European DFG Research Unit.
http://china.befdata.biow.uni-leipzig.de/data


National Bureau of Statistics of China Chinese government agency site. This isn’t the most ambitious of government open data sites, but it does include annual reports on economic issues such as population, finances, employment and wages.
http://www.stats.gov.cn/english/Statisticaldata/AnnualData/


Open Data Japan English language open data site from the government of Japan.
http://www.data.go.jp/?lang=english


Australia


Data.gov.au Australian government data portal.
http://data.gov.au/


Europe


European Union Data Portal Funded by the European Union, this is a portal harvested metadata from public sector portals throughout Europe.
https://www.europeandataportal.eu/


European Union Open Data Portal Portal for data from European Union institutions.
https://data.europa.eu/euodp/en/data/


North America


My own list of data portals for 85 US cities.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/metabrown/2017/06/30/quick-links-to-municipal-open-data-portals-for-85-us-cities/


Data.gov United States government open data portal. Portal for data from US federal agencies and some state and local government data.
https://www.data.gov/


Datos Abiertos Open data site of the Republic of Mexico.
https://datos.gob.mx/


Open Data Government of Canada data portal.
http://open.canada.ca/en/open-data


South America


Datos Abiertos Colombia Open data portal of the government of Colombia.
https://www.datos.gov.co/


Datos Argentina Open data portal of the government of Argentinaa.
http://datos.gob.ar/


Portal Brasiliero de Dados Abiertos Brazilian government open data.
http://dados.gov.br/


Inter-American Development Bank Open Data Portal showcases socio-economic indicators for the Latin American and the Caribbean Region.
https://data.iadb.org/NumbersForDevelopment/NumbersForDevelopment


Ocean Biogeographic Information Center South America NASA portal for information about the oceans surrounding South America.
https://gcmd.nasa.gov/KeywordSearch/Home.do?Portal=saobis&MetadataType=0&lbnode=mdlb1


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Meta S. Brown is author of Data Mining for Dummies and creator of the Storytelling for Data Analysts and Storytelling for Tech workshops. http://www.metabrown.com

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