Data licenses

Third-party indicators inside the catalog can carry a different licence. The series we store from the World Bank API are under CC BY 4.0 unless their own metadata says otherwise.

Public-domain and citation-required series may be shown with attribution. Series whose notes contain a copyright statement need the owner's permission beyond personal use. FRED's API terms restrict storing the feed in another database, reselling the service, and using the content in AI systems.

Our CO2 and energy series are OWID's own compilation. Other OWID tables follow the original provider's licence.

FRED's series notes mark these as copyrighted by the IMF. The IMF asks for written permission before commercial reuse, and forbids model training without permission.

Statistical data may be redistributed with attribution. The same page asks you to email copyright@imf.org before commercial reuse. If you sell the data on its own, tell buyers it is free from the IMF.

These series are fetched through FRED. No copyright sentence was present in the FRED notes.

One series in this source record is a World Bank API indicator and follows the World Bank terms.

If you charge for a document that includes the figures, tell the buyer the statistics are free from the ECB. Do not change the figures without saying so.

The official terms page is the licence document. On 9 October 2026 it did not return the reuse clause to an automated read, so this row does not claim a Creative Commons licence.

Commercial reuse does not cover third-party data, or figures for countries other than the EU, EFTA, and official candidate countries. The United Kingdom rows in our Eurostat series fall outside that permission.

ILO datasets published on or after 3 May 2023 are under CC BY 4.0. Older datasets keep the licence printed on that dataset.

We store the World Bank API series, not a separate ITU feed.

Four series come from the World Bank API. Median age is fetched from the UN Data Portal. Its licence page did not return terms text, so that indicator has no licence fields.

Yahoo's terms forbid reproducing, selling, or building a database from the service content without written permission.

Existing-home sales carries a copyright notice in the FRED notes. The inventory series does not. NAR's own copyright page is at https://www.nar.realtor/copyright.

Commercial display is allowed when the attribution sits beside the data. Do not present the index as Alternative.me's own product.

The stored series is the BTS truck-tonnage index on FRED, not a separate ATA feed.

The FRED notes say: Copyright, 2016, Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC. Reprinted with permission. That permission was granted to FRED.

The stored series is the Yahoo Finance ticker TTF=F. Yahoo's terms forbid reproducing or selling that content without permission.

The stored series is BEA domestic auto production on FRED, not an OICA feed.

The index page does not state a licence. This indicator has empty licence fields.

The stored series is WHO GHO indicator MH_12.

The stored series is the World Bank immunization indicator SH.IMM.IDPT.

The ISS API page describes access. It does not state a licence for redistributing IMOEX. This indicator has empty licence fields.

Stored from the World Bank API.

Three active indicators have no source record. BIS allows non-commercial redistribution. The statistics in the BIS Data Portal are excluded from the short-extract rule.

Six food-price indicators have no source record. FAO's database terms add a ban on using the datasets to promote a commercial product.