Data
Updates
The numbers behind our country pages and comparisons come from the World Bank’s open data, and we re-read them every month. When a country gets a newer year, or a published figure is revised, it is recorded here: what the figure is now and what it was before. We say what changed and never why.
A reel shows the figures as they were the day it was made; if the World Bank has since published newer ones, the reel’s page says so, and the reel is not edited. To be told about the numbers you care about, follow them from a country page and they appear in Your Library, or subscribe to a feed below.
Nothing is recorded yet. The first monthly refresh that finds a newer year or a revised figure will appear here.
Feeds
One feed per measure, with the countries that moved. Every country’s own page links a feed of just that country; every series has one for its new episodes.
- Population
- Land area
- GDP per person
- Life expectancy
- Babies per woman
- Baby deaths
- Living in cities
- Internet users
- Access to electricity
- CO₂ per person
- Unemployment
The same ledger as data: /data/changes/<country>.json (two-letter code, open to use).