Dataset · Open Data Watch
Open Data Inventory
7 years, 2015–2024 · 168 countries · 3 measures
The Open Data Inventory asks whether a country’s national statistics office actually publishes its data, and whether that data is genuinely open — downloadable, machine-readable and free to reuse. Open Data Watch scores coverage and openness separately and combines them out of 100.
This site holds every year from 2015 to 2024, read from Open Data Watch’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Open Data Inventory · the file
- Newest
- Open Data Inventory, 2024
- Held
- 7 years · 1,108 rows
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
017 years
Every year
Newest first. Each opens the full table for that year, and each downloads as a CSV.
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open Data Inventory, 2024Newest | 168 | +3 −2 | September 5, 2026 | CSV |
| Open Data Inventory, 2022 | 167 | +3 −2 | September 5, 2026 | CSV |
| Open Data Inventory, 2020 | 166 | +5 −3 | September 5, 2026 | CSV |
| Open Data Inventory, 2018 | 164 | −1 | September 5, 2026 | CSV |
| Open Data Inventory, 2017 | 165 | +5 −1 | September 5, 2026 | CSV |
| Open Data Inventory, 2016 | 161 | +47 −3 | September 5, 2026 | CSV |
| Open Data Inventory, 2015 | 117 | — | September 5, 2026 | CSV |
Every year in one file, one row per country per year: open-data-inventory-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
026 columns
What’s in the file
Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2024 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Rankglobal_rankPublisher’s rank | Open Data Watch’s own rank, exactly as printed. | Number · whole numbers | 12 share it168 Turkmenistanmiddle 82 | 61 | 0 | |
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 168 | 0 | |
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 168 | 0 | |
ODIN overall score (0–100)odin_scoreHeadline | The headline figure: ODIN overall score (0–100). | Number · whole numbers | 19Turkmenistan902 share itmiddle 59 | 61 | 0 | |
Coverage subscorecoverage_subscoreMeasure | How much official data the national statistical office publishes, across topics, breakdowns, recent years and subnational levels, scored 0–100. | Number · whole numbers | 13 South Sudan83 Denmarkmiddle 53 | 58 | 0 | |
Openness subscoreopenness_subscoreMeasure | How open that data is: machine-readable, non-proprietary formats, download options, metadata and open terms of use, scored 0–100. | Number · whole numbers | 16Turkmenistan99 Malaysiamiddle 62 | 68 | 0 |
Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the better result.
03171 countries across every year
Who is covered
How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2020 | 2022 | 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 46 | 46 | 48 | 47 | 48 | 47 | 50 |
| Americas | 22 | 28 | 28 | 28 | 28 | 29 | 29 |
| Asia | 32 | 41 | 43 | 43 | 45 | 45 | 44 |
| Europe | 12 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 38 |
| Oceania | 5 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 7 |
| All | 117 | 161 | 165 | 164 | 166 | 167 | 168 |
Who joined and who left
- 2024
+ Republic of the Congo
+ Comoros
+ Guinea-Bissau
− Belarus
− Iran - 2022
+ Central African Republic
+ Venezuela
+ Vanuatu− Republic of the Congo− Guinea-Bissau - 2020
+ Brunei
+ Equatorial Guinea
+ Greenland
+ Chad
+ Yemen
− Sudan− Venezuela− Vanuatu - 2018− Chad
- 2017
+ Afghanistan+ Iran+ Sudan
+ Somalia
+ Syria− Yemen - 2016
+ United Arab Emirates
+ Australia
+ Austria
+ Belgium
+ Bahamas
+ Canada
+ Switzerland
+ Costa Rica
+ Cyprus
+ Czechia
+ Germany+ Denmark
+ Spain
+ Estonia
+ Finland
+ France
+ United Kingdom
+ Greece
+ Croatia
+ Hungary
+ Ireland
+ Iraq
+ Iceland
+ Israel
+ Italy
+ Japan
+ South Korea
+ Kuwait
+ Libya
+ Lithuania
+ Luxembourg
+ Latvia
+ Myanmar
+ Netherlands
+ Norway
+ New Zealand
+ Oman
+ Poland
+ Portugal
+ Qatar
+ Suriname
+ Slovakia
+ Slovenia
+ Sweden
+ Trinidad and Tobago
+ Taiwan
+ United States− Afghanistan− Iran− Sudan
Not in this dataset · 53 places this site covers
Open Data Watch gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.
American Samoa
Andorra
Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Aruba
Bahrain
Barbados
Bermuda
British Virgin Islands
Cayman IslandsChannel Islands
Cook Islands
Curaçao
Dominica
Eritrea
Faroe Islands
French Polynesia
Gibraltar
Grenada
Guam
Hong Kong
Isle of Man
Kiribati
Liechtenstein
Macau
Maldives
Malta
Marshall Islands
Micronesia
Monaco
Montserrat
Nauru
New Caledonia
Niue
North Korea
Northern Mariana Islands
Palau
Puerto Rico
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Martin
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
San Marino
São Tomé and Príncipe
Seychelles
Singapore
Sint MaartenSomaliland
Tonga
Turks and Caicos Islands
Tuvalu
United States Virgin Islands
Vatican City04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
Open Data Watch
2 · Their file
Open Data Inventory 2024
3 · Read by this site
September 5, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
7 files, one per year
Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as open-data-inventory-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
Precision
The headline is stored in whole numbers, as published.
Rounded by this site
Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.
Changed by this site
Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.
From Open Data Watch’s published ODIN results, with the coverage and openness subscores stored alongside the overall score.
05Reuse
Licence and credit
What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.
Licence · checked September 5, 2026
- Share and redistribute it
- Adapt it and build on it
- Use it commercially
- Credit the publisher
- Say what you changed
Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.
A credit line
Source: Open Data Watch, Open Data Inventory, via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
Open Data Watch. Open Data Inventory, 2015–2024 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/open-data-inventory
The publisher’s own citation: Open Data Watch. Open Data Inventory (ODIN). Washington, DC: Open Data Watch.
Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.
06Where it is used
Around the site
Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.
Charted
Open Data Inventory by countryWho is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
Subjects
Near neighbours
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07Questions
Open Data Inventory: questions and answers
What is the Open Data Inventory?
The Open Data Inventory asks whether a country’s national statistics office actually publishes its data, and whether that data is genuinely open — downloadable, machine-readable and free to reuse. Open Data Watch scores coverage and openness separately and combines them out of 100.
Which years of the Open Data Inventory can I download?
All 7, from 2015 to 2024, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.
Does Open Data Watch rank countries on it?
Yes. The rank in these files is Open Data Watch’s own, exactly as printed.
Can I use it commercially?
Yes, under CC BY 4.0, with credit to Open Data Watch. The licence text is linked on this page.