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Countries Statistics API

Post by 1mrankhan » Wed, May 08, 2013, 8:55 PM UTC

Hi, I am looking for countries statistics like population, poverty level some kind a api for grab the datas. Is there any ? Thanks

Re: Countries Statistics API

Post by dpearson » Wed, May 08, 2013, 9:05 PM UTC

You could try scraping the CIA World Factbook, which should have all of that information. There's no formal API, but someone has written a scraper[0] that you could rerun to get newer data (or, for that matter, you could write your own scraper).

[0]: https://github.com/twigkit/worldfactbook-dataset

Re: Countries Statistics API

Post by ggordan » Thu, May 09, 2013, 1:25 AM UTC

Have you tried looking at the World Data Bank?

http://databank.worldbank.org/data/home.aspx

Re: Countries Statistics API

Post by gspyrou » Thu, May 09, 2013, 4:06 AM UTC

You could take a look at the United Nations Demographic Statistics on Azure Marketplace. http://datamarket.azure.com/dataset/unitednations/demographi...

http://datamarket.azure.com/browse/data?category=demographic...

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