Population and Indicators Dataset

February 2025 Geographic Difficulty 5/5 PDF · TXT · XLSX 1.8 MB 4,456 rows × 9 cols 0 downloads
  • population
  • indicators
  • global
  • economics
  • development

4,456 country-by-indicator records with country code, income group, indicator code, year, and value. Useful for indicator-trajectory mapping, income-group comparisons, and development-metric dashboards.

Challenge brief


slug: 2025-02-population-and-indicators title: Population and Indicators Dataset year: 2025 month: 02 source: authored authored_at: 2026-04-19 needs_leon_review: true

Population and Indicators Dataset - Challenge Brief

Challenge period: February 2025 Dataset: Reconstructed brief based on the shipped data file for the February 2025 DataDNA challenge.

About the data

The primary data table for this challenge carries the following columns:

  • Country
  • Country Code
  • Latitude
  • Longitude
  • Income Group
  • Indicator Code
  • Indicator Name
  • Indicator Year
  • Indicator Value

Suggested analytical angles

  • Which indicators have moved most sharply across income groups?
  • How do population indicators correlate with economic-development bands?
  • Which regions show the most uneven indicator trajectories?
  • How do latitude and longitude cluster indicator outcomes?

What great submissions did

This brief was reconstructed from the dataset contents in 2026 as part of the Playground audit. The original February 2025 challenge brief was not preserved as a separate file in the source archive, so the analytical angles above are inferred from the column list. See the corresponding /challenges/ entry on datadna.onyxdata.co.uk for examples of how participants approached the data.

Editorial note

_This stub was authored by Claude on 2026-04-19 for Leon's review. Refine the suggested angles and confirm factual accuracy before setting brief_status = leon_reviewed in the audit log._

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