Data Sources for Your IB Maths IA

Downloadable CSV datasets on GDP, income inequality, trade, poverty, and hundreds of other economic indicators. Long time series across most countries. Excellent for regression and correlation IAs.

GDP per capita, inflation, unemployment, Gini coefficients, and 1,400+ other development indicators by country and year. Filter by country and indicator then download CSV directly.

Historical daily closing prices for stocks, indices, currencies, and commodities. Search any ticker → Historical Data → Download CSV. Good for financial modelling, volatility analysis, and portfolio IAs.

Clean datasets on life expectancy, fertility, income, and CO₂ by country and year. Designed for visualisation - data is tidy and easy to import. Great for bivariate regression IAs.

Disease burden, mortality rates, vaccination coverage, life expectancy, and health system indicators for all countries. Download data tables as CSV. Good for SIR modelling or regression IAs.

US public health data - mortality, births, cancer, environmental health. Powerful query tool to get exactly the age/year/cause breakdown you need. Downloads as text/CSV.

Confirmed exoplanet data including orbital period, semi-major axis, mass, and radius. Perfect for an IA on Kepler's Third Law - the period vs. semi-major axis relationship is a textbook power-law regression.

Hundreds of clean, well-documented datasets covering medical diagnosis, biology, physics, and social science. Many have 100–1000 rows and are ready to import into Sheets. Good for regression and chi-squared IAs.

Monthly and annual global mean surface temperature anomalies from 1880 to the present. Downloadable as CSV. Classic dataset for regression and time-series modelling IAs.

Local weather station data - daily temperature, precipitation, wind speed. Select a station near you and download your own local climate record. Good for sinusoidal modelling of seasonal temperature.

Annual CO₂ emissions by country and sector from 1750 onwards. Also atmospheric CO₂ concentration (ppm) from Mauna Loa. Direct download from the data page as Excel/CSV.

Long-term climate datasets including sea surface temperature, global temperature records, and Arctic sea ice extent. Widely cited in academic literature - strong source credibility for your bibliography.

Detailed football statistics - goals, xG, passing, defensive actions at player and team level across major leagues. Tables can be copied directly into Sheets. Also covers basketball (basketball-reference.com), baseball, and more.

Thousands of community-contributed datasets. Search for your sport or topic and filter by file format. Many sports datasets include match results, player stats, and league tables going back decades. All free to download with a free account.

Official world records and all-time performance lists for track and field events. Useful for modelling world record progression over time - a classic logistic or diminishing-returns IA topic.

All Olympic results from Athens 1896 to the present. Medal tables, individual event results, and country performance data. Structured data available from Kaggle mirrors (search "Olympics dataset").

World Population Prospects - historical and projected population data by country, age group, and sex. Downloadable Excel/CSV. Essential for population growth modelling (logistic, exponential) IAs.

UK census, crime, earnings, house prices, education, and health data. Detailed local area data (down to postcode level) is available. Clean CSV downloads with thorough documentation.

Education attainment, income distribution, health spending, and more for OECD member countries. Use the query builder to select variables and years, then export as CSV. Good for cross-country regression IAs.

Weekly or monthly search interest index (0–100) for any search term, in any country, since 2004. Download as CSV directly. Unusual but interesting for Bass Diffusion, viral spread, or seasonal pattern IAs.

Daily and weekly top charts by country. Historical chart data (streams, position) downloadable as CSV for the global and regional charts. Good for modelling song popularity decay curves or chart dynamics.

Federal Reserve database with 800,000+ time series - US and international economic data including interest rates, inflation, money supply, unemployment, and housing. Download any series as CSV in two clicks.

Bulk data files for all IMDb titles - ratings, genres, cast, run times. Useful for statistics IAs involving distributions of ratings, genre popularity trends, or runtime vs rating regression.

Extract GPS coordinates of specific features - hospitals, fire stations, parks, restaurants - for any area. Export as GeoJSON/CSV. Ideal for Voronoi diagram or facility placement IAs where you need real location data.