# Where can I find a database with socio-economic (and other) information by country?

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**Created:** [November 21, 2021, 1:25pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/where-can-i-find-a-database-with-socio-economic-and-other-information-by-country/71860 "2021-11-21T13:25:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Juan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/juan/32/7657_2.png) [@Juan](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Juan)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2021, 1:25pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/where-can-i-find-a-database-with-socio-economic-and-other-information-by-country/71860/1 "2021-11-21T13:25:40Z")

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Hello.

I would like to explore different indicators (socioeconomic, health, science…) from different countries.  
For example, I want to plot the GDP per capita vs the system of government. Or the number of intentional homicides, number of people at jail, traffic accidents, percentage of people with a given religion…

Where can I easily download this kind information (as an excel or centralized database)?

I wouldn’t like to have to manually parse text from multiple web sites. It would be difficult to clean and match everything.

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**Author:** ![pdeffebach](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/pdeffebach/32/10320_2.png) [@pdeffebach](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/pdeffebach)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2021, 2:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/where-can-i-find-a-database-with-socio-economic-and-other-information-by-country/71860/2 "2021-11-21T14:40:13Z")

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These won’t all be in one data set, unfortunately. The economic stuff will come from Penn World Tables. Government stuff can come from [here](https://www.cpds-data.org/). I’m not aware of any data source that will track incarceration and traffic accidents across countries and crime. [Our World In Data](https://ourworldindata.org/) has tons of stuff aggregated, but I’m not sure there is a clean API to download everything at once.

There is no Julia-specific help, here though. Julia will be a tool to download some stuff but this question has no relationship to Julia.

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**Author:** ![jmboehm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jmboehm/32/2263_2.png) [@jmboehm](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jmboehm)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2021, 3:33pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/where-can-i-find-a-database-with-socio-economic-and-other-information-by-country/71860/3 "2021-11-21T15:33:44Z")

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Depending on what you’re after, the [World Bank’s data](https://data.worldbank.org/), in particular the World Development Indicators, could be relevant for you. Another site like Our World in Data is [Gapminder](https://www.gapminder.org/data/), which also includes data from the WDI. If you’re happy looking only at rich countries, the OECD has data on many socioeconomic indicators.