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IDB Data Portals

By Inter-American Development Bank

This dataset contains the list and metadata of all IDB data portals hosted on the IADB portal (via IDB Open / IDB Open Data). It provides a catalog of the various thematic platforms within the IADB database ecosystem.

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Identifier https://doi.org/10.60966/zllj099h
License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Citation

Inter-American Development Bank (2025). IDB Data Portals. IDB Open Data. https://doi.org/10.60966/zllj099h
Published date 2025-03-08
Modified date 2026-08-18
Tags/Keywords Open Data · Open Knowledge
Language
  1. English
Temporal coverage 1990-2025
Country
Argentina
Bahamas
Mexico
Panama
Venezuela
Barbados
Peru
Puerto Rico
Suriname
Trinidad & Tobago
Uruguay
Belize
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
El Salvador
Nicaragua
Guatemala
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Jamaica
Region Latin America and the Caribbean
Publisher
Inter-American Development Bank
Author
Inter-American Development Bank
Data collection type Administrative Data
Statistical type Cross-sectional Data
Data structure Structured Data
Data notes

What is this dataset?

It is a catalog of the thematic data portals, observatories and platforms the IDB runs alongside IDB Open Data. Each entry points at one portal, so this dataset works as a directory: it tells you which platforms exist, what each one covers, and where to go.

What does it contain?

One entry per portal, each with the portal's name, a description of what it publishes, and a link to it. There are more than twenty, spanning social indicators, macroeconomics and fiscal policy, education, health, water and sanitation, labor, migration, agriculture, digital connectivity, cybersecurity, transport, solid waste and the circular economy, and green and fintech finance.

Is the data itself stored here?

No, and this is the thing to understand before using it. Every entry is a link, not a file or a table: the content is the destination. Nothing in this dataset is held on the platform, so there is nothing to download here. Each portal serves its own data, on its own update schedule and under its own terms of use.

Which portals are included?

Among others: Social Indicators of Latin America and the Caribbean, Latin Macro Watch, AccountabilityData, digiLAC, Health Mesoamerica, the Green Bond Transparency Platform, Integra, the Knowledge Hub on Early Childhood Development, Compete Caribbean, the Water and Sanitation Observatory (OLAS), FISLAC, CIMA, the Solid Waste and Circular Economy Hub, FintechRegMap, Risk Monitor, the Green Finance LAC Platform, Fontagro, Priorities for Productivity and Income, DataMIG, the Integration and Transport Hub for Mesoamerica, the IDB Labor Observatory, Agrimonitor, the Observatory of Cybersecurity in Latin America and the Caribbean, InvestmentMap, and the IDB Open Data Dataverse.

Which countries and regions do the portals cover?

Latin America and the Caribbean throughout, though the reach of each portal differs: some are regional, some cover a group of countries, and some focus on a single initiative or country. The portal itself is the place to confirm its own coverage.

What time period do they cover?

It varies by portal, because each maintains its own series. Taken together they reach back to around 1990 and run to the present, but no single portal covers the whole of that span.

How can it be used?

As a starting point: to find which IDB platform covers a topic before searching for data on it, and to see the breadth of what the IDB publishes outside IDB Open Data itself. It also serves as a machine-readable list of the portals, for anyone maintaining links to them.

How often is it updated?

When portals are added, retired or moved. It is a catalog rather than a series, so it has no release cycle.

In what format is it available, and under what licence?

As a set of links rather than files — there is nothing to download from this dataset itself. The catalog is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence, which allows reuse and adaptation provided the source is credited. The data on each portal is governed by that portal's own terms, not by this licence.

How do I cite it?

Use the citation shown on this page, which names the Inter-American Development Bank as author, the dataset title, IDB Open Data as the repository, and the persistent identifier assigned on publication. To cite a portal's data rather than this catalog, cite the portal.

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