Our World in Data

About this source

Search OWID charts, read the definition, caveats and citation, and pull the data behind a chart for any countries and years. Good for long-run, cross-country context with sources you can cite.

Questions you can ask Our World in Data

Type them into Kahubi’s chat once the source is connected.

What the assistant can do with it

The 3 tools this server offers to Kahubi. The assistant picks the right one for each question.

• owid_search_charts

  Search Our World in Data charts (health, population, poverty, energy, CO2, education, food, war, technology …).

• owid_chart_metadata

  Metadata of one OWID chart: each column's short name, unit, time span, definition, key caveats, sources and citation, plus when it was last updated.

• owid_get_data

  Data behind one OWID chart as CSV (entity, code, year, one column per series), optionally filtered to countries/regions and a year range.

Good to know

• Hosted by Kahubi. Kahubi runs this server itself so it stays reliable enough for research use.
• Cited, checkable answers. Results are treated as retrieved material and cited with the source’s own identifiers, so you can open every record the answer relied on.
• Your files stay private. Only the search the assistant writes for your question is sent to Our World in Data.

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• EurostatEU official statistics: economy, demography, trade, health and NUTS regions.
• OECDOECD statistics on economy, education, health, labour and environment (SDMX).
• IMF dataInternational Monetary Fund macroeconomic datasets.
• Statistics Sweden (SCB)Swedish official statistics: population, economy, labour market, education and environment.
• Sveriges RiksbankPolicy rate, exchange rates and interbank rates from the Swedish central bank.
• Kolada (Swedish municipal indicators)6,000 key indicators for every Swedish municipality and region: schools, care, finances, environment.