Free, open datasets from the Bamwor World Encyclopedia — countries, cities, economics, military, population, energy, and proprietary indexes.

This repository contains two types of data:

1. Ranking CSVs — Single-indicator country rankings (population, GDP, area, etc.)
2. Public Datasets — Multi-field structured datasets for research, analysis, and integration

All data is maintained and verified by the Bamwor team. Updated periodically.

Comprehensive structured datasets in CSV and JSON formats. Located in datasets/public/.

Single-indicator country rankings. Located in datasets/. Each file includes metadata headers, ranks, and source URLs.

Rank, Country, ISO Code, Region, Value, Year, Source URL

Example:

1,China,CH,East & Southeast Asia,1416043270,2025,https://bamwor.com/en/countries/china
2,India,IN,South Asia,1409128296,2025,https://bamwor.com/en/countries/india

This repository publishes free public subsets of Bamwor's data. The following are not included:

• Full global cities database (476,000+ places) — only the top 50,000 are public
• Premium API access and commercial data feeds
• Internal enrichment data (airports, climate, amenities, air quality)
• Full-resolution Parquet exports

For commercial or research access to the complete dataset, visit bamwor.com/developers.

git clone https://github.com/bamwor-dev/bamwor-open-data.git

import pandas as pd

# Load a ranking CSV
pop = pd.read_csv('datasets/countries-by-population-2026-bamwor.csv', comment='#')

# Load a public dataset
cities = pd.read_csv('datasets/public/global_cities_public/global_cities_public.csv')
economy = pd.read_csv('datasets/public/global_economy/global_economy.csv')

const cities = require('./datasets/public/global_cities_public/global_cities_public.json');
const indices = require('./datasets/public/global_bamwor_indices/global_bamwor_indices.json');

cities <- read.csv("datasets/public/global_cities_public/global_cities_public.csv")
economy <- read.csv("datasets/public/global_economy/global_economy.csv")

Refresh ranking CSVs from the Bamwor API:

./scripts/update-datasets.sh

All datasets are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

You are free to share and adapt for any purpose, including commercial, as long as you provide attribution.

Required attribution: "Data from Bamwor"

APA:

Bamwor. (2026). Bamwor Open Data: World Country and City Datasets. Bamwor World Encyclopedia. https://bamwor.com

BibTeX:

@misc{bamwor_open_data_2026,
  author = {Bamwor},
  title = {Bamwor Open Data: World Country and City Datasets},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://github.com/bamwor-dev/bamwor-open-data},
  note = {Bamwor World Encyclopedia. CC BY 4.0}
}

• Bamwor World Encyclopedia
• Bamwor Indexes
• Rankings
• Country Comparisons
• REST API for Developers
• API Documentation