Browse PlainCountries
Full directory of the PlainCountries knowledge base — 217 country profiles, 8 development topics, 47 indicators, 15 disease causes, and 20 critical minerals. Every entry links to a full data page with ranked comparisons, full time-series where available, and Source: World Bank, Source: WHO, Source: ILO, and Source: USGS attribution.
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Methodology
PlainCountries aggregates country-level statistics from four official primary sources: the Source: World Bank Open Data catalogue (World Development Indicators), the Source: WHO Global Health Observatory, Source: ILO ILOSTAT (wages and working hours), Source: OECD.Stat (member-only indicators such as health expenditure and inequality), and Source: USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2024 for mineral production.
Data vintage. Every indicator row carries its observation year and its source agency. When a country has no value for an indicator in a particular year, we display "Data not available" rather than carrying forward a stale figure or imputing an estimate. Release cadence varies: World Bank WDI publishes annually, WHO GHO refreshes cause-of-death series on the Global Burden of Disease cycle, ILO ILOSTAT runs quarterly, and USGS mineral summaries update yearly with revisions to the prior year.
Ranking construction. Rankings order every country with a non-null observation for the indicator's latest reporting year. Ties are broken alphabetically by country name. The total country count varies slightly per indicator because not every country reports on every metric. Each ranking row shows the country, the raw value, the year of the observation, and the unit of measurement.
Comparisons. Country comparison pages pair any two countries by ISO3 code and show a side-by-side table per topic. When an indicator lacks data for one side, we render "N/A" to keep the comparison structurally honest. Disease rates are shown per 100,000 population and are age-standardised where WHO publishes the adjusted series. Mineral production shares are computed from USGS estimates of global mine production and may be revised in the following year's release.
Licensing. World Bank, WHO, and ILO data are published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) and may be reused with attribution. OECD.Stat data is licensed under the OECD terms and conditions. USGS data is in the public domain (CC0). PlainCountries adds value through aggregation, ranking, comparison, and cross-referencing against peer country profiles — but every underlying number traces back to an official release.
For the detailed per-indicator methodology notes, see our full methodology page or open any data guide to learn how specific indicators are constructed and what their limitations are.
How to use this directory
Every row in the PlainCountries database lives behind one of five surfaces — country profiles, development topics, ranking pages, disease pages, and mineral pages — and this directory is the master index that points at all of them. If you know the country, start with the A-Z list above: each link opens a full profile with population, GDP, life expectancy, healthcare access, education, and 50+ other indicators sourced from World Bank WDI, WHO GHO, ILO ILOSTAT, and (for OECD members) OECD.Stat.
If you know the topic but not the country, open the Topics index — it groups every indicator under 8 development themes (Demographics, Economy, Health, Education, Environment, Infrastructure, Social, and Labor & Wages). Each topic page lists its indicators, and each indicator opens a global ranking. If you want to rank countries head-to-head, the Rankings index jumps straight to a sorted, year-stamped comparison of all 217 countries for any of 47 indicators. Need a side-by-side? The Compare tool pairs any two countries by ISO3 code and shows every indicator we have for both, grouped by topic.
The two specialty surfaces — diseases and minerals — handle health-burden and natural-resource queries that don't fit the country-level WDI structure. The Diseases page lists 15 causes of death tracked by WHO's Global Burden of Disease study with country-by-country rates per 100,000 population, age-standardised where WHO publishes the adjusted series. The Minerals page lists 20 critical minerals from USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2024 with per-country mine-production shares, useful for supply-chain and energy-transition research.
Data freshness. World Bank WDI is refreshed annually each September. WHO GHO follows the Global Burden of Disease cycle and can release cause-of-death revisions in any quarter. ILO ILOSTAT publishes quarterly with monthly partial updates. OECD Health Statistics 2025 was released in July. USGS minerals updates each January for the prior year. Every observation in our database carries its source agency and year, so you can verify the vintage of any number on any page.
Licence and reuse. World Bank, WHO, and ILO data are published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). OECD.Stat data is licensed under the OECD terms and conditions. USGS data is in the public domain (CC0). You may reuse any figure on PlainCountries freely so long as you credit the underlying agency. PlainCountries adds value through aggregation, ranking, and cross-referencing — but every number ultimately traces to an official release.