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World Bank public data, now in search
November 11, 2009
When we first
launched public data
on Google.com, we wanted to make statistics easier to find and to encourage
debate based on facts
rather than intuition. The day after we launched, a friend who worked at the World Bank called me, her voice filled with enthusiasm, "Did you know that the World Bank also just released an API for their data?" Excited, I
checked it out
, and found an amazing treasure trove of statistics for most economies in the world. After some hard work and analysis, today we're happy to announce that 17
World Development Indicators
(list below*) are now conveniently available to you in Google search.
With today's update, you can quickly access more data with a broad range of queries. Search should be intuitive, so we've done the work to think through queries where public data will be most relevant to you. To see the new data, try queries like [
gdp of indonesia
], [
life expectancy brazil
], [
rwanda's population growth
], [
energy use of iceland
], [
co2 emissions of iceland
] and [
gdp growth rate argentina
]. For example, if you search for [
internet users in the united states
], you will see the following chart at the top of the results page:
Clicking on the result will bring you to an
interactive chart
where you can compare the United States with other regions around the world. We've also added a new feature to enable you to embed these charts in your own website or blog by clicking on the "Link" button in the upper right-hand corner of the
chart page
. You have the option to either embed the chart with static data, or you can also set the chart to update dynamically when new data becomes available. To give you a sense of what these charts look like, we've embedded the chart below comparing Internet users in the United States and South Korea:
We hope this new data and our new embedding feature will help facilitate quick and easy access to public statistics. There are still many other data sets and sources out there, and we're excited about the possibilities for the future. If you're a data publisher interested in making your data more easily discoverable in Google, please
contact us
.
*
Complete list of World Bank indicators currently available:
CO2 emissions per capita
,
Electricity consumption per capita
,
Energy use per capita
,
Exports as percentage of GDP
,
Fertility rate
,
GDP deflator change
,
GDP growth rate
,
GNI per capita in PPP dollars
,
Gross Domestic Product
,
Gross National Income in PPP dollars
,
Imports as percentage of GDP
,
Internet users as percentage of population
,
Life expectancy
,
Military expenditure as percentage of GDP
,
Mortality rate, under 5
,
Population
, and
Population growth rate
.
Update
at 11:26am: We've updated this post to include a better example.
Posted by Chung Wu, Software Engineer
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