Every brawl uses country-level data from public datasets, official APIs, and a few carefully checked mirrors. This page shows what is active, what license applies, and which sources are kept out until permission is clear.
22
Sources live
208
Metrics mapped
22
Cleared
9
Need care
The same machine-readable registry used by data sync powers this page. When a source changes license, permission, coverage, or allowed surfaces, the public page changes with the next data refresh.
Updated May 5, 2026
Active Sources
Sources currently powering gameplay, country pages, maps, rankings, or compare pages.
Broad global coverage; production source for World Bank macro, development, infrastructure, and selected expansion metrics.
CC BY 4.0
Weekly
World Bank Open Data, [indicator name], CC BY 4.0
Gameplay, Country pages, Maps, Rankings, Compare, Share cards, Browse-only
Official national indicators; latest non-null country values are used for gameplay.
TerraBrawl Metrics
71Narrow OECD-centered coverage; current production source for 67 active well-being metrics.
CC BY 4.0
Monthly
OECD, [dataset name], CC BY 4.0
Gameplay, Country pages, Maps, Rankings, Compare, Share cards, Browse-only
OECD harmonized survey/statistical indicators; downweighted in default duel play.
Coverage is OECD-heavy and may omit many countries.
TerraBrawl Metrics
67Broad production coverage for 10 active metrics; each redistributed dataset must keep upstream-license caveats.
CC BY for OWID original work; inherited licenses for redistributed source data
Monthly
Our World in Data, [chart slug]
Gameplay, Country pages, Maps, Rankings, Compare, Share cards, Browse-only
OWID grapher values; some series are redistributed from upstream sources.
OWID charts can redistribute upstream datasets; verify the underlying license before adding new OWID metrics.
TerraBrawl Metrics
10Production source for 16 active slow-changing metrics; source discontinued 2026-02-04.
US public domain
Annual
CIA World Factbook
Gameplay, Country pages, Maps, Rankings, Compare, Share cards, Browse-only
Factbook country fields extracted from the public-domain JSON mirror.
CIA World Factbook was discontinued in 2026; values will stale without TB-307 migration.
TerraBrawl Metrics
16Wave 1A source for solar, wind, coal share, and electricity carbon intensity; current mapped coverage is 209-213 countries depending on metric.
CC BY 4.0
Annual
Ember, Yearly Electricity Data, CC BY 4.0
Gameplay, Country pages, Maps, Rankings, Compare, Share cards, Browse-only
Electricity generation mix, not total energy mix.
Electricity share is not the same as total energy share.
Wave 1A source for weekly hours, informal employment, and women in management. Paid leave pivoted to wikipedia_leave because the old ILO TRAVAIL route is no longer live.
CC BY 4.0 for databases and datasets after 2023-05-03
Annual
International Labour Organization (ILOSTAT), CC BY 4.0
Gameplay, Country pages, Maps, Rankings, Compare, Share cards, Browse-only
ILO harmonized labor indicators; choose total sex and total economic activity where applicable.
Labor survey methods vary by country.
Wave 1A/1B source for financial inclusion survey metrics including mobile money, digital payments, emergency money, and credit cards.
CC BY 4.0
Three Years
World Bank Global Findex, CC BY 4.0
Gameplay, Country pages, Maps, Rankings, Compare, Share cards, Browse-only
Adult survey percentages from the latest Findex wave.
Survey wave cadence is roughly three years; show the source year in receipts.
Wave 1A/1B source for business bribery, power outage, informal payment, and management metrics.
CC BY 4.0
Irregular
World Bank Enterprise Surveys, CC BY 4.0
Gameplay, Country pages, Maps, Rankings, Compare, Share cards, Browse-only
Firm survey aggregates; latest available country survey year varies.
Country survey years and firm samples vary.
Wave 1A bar-bet metric with lower but high-value coverage; latest January 2026 release maps to 53 TerraBrawl countries.
CC BY 4.0 for generated data; MIT for software
Semiannual
The Economist Big Mac Index, GitHub data repository
Gameplay, Country pages, Maps, Rankings, Compare, Share cards, Browse-only
Local Big Mac price converted to USD in the Economist dataset.
Big Mac prices are a playful purchasing-power proxy, not a full cost-of-living index.
TerraBrawl Metrics
1Wave 1A source for CPI score; current CPI 2025 workbook maps to 181 TerraBrawl countries.
CC BY 4.0
Annual
Transparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index, CC BY 4.0
Gameplay, Country pages, Maps, Rankings, Compare, Share cards, Browse-only
Perceived public-sector corruption index where higher means less perceived corruption.
Perception index, not a direct count of corrupt acts.
TerraBrawl Metrics
1Wave 1B source for vehicles, road deaths, tobacco, inactivity, and hypertension.
CC BY 4.0
Annual
World Health Organization {YEAR} data.who.int, {ITEM_NAME} [Indicator]. {URL} (Accessed on {ACCESS DATE})
Gameplay, Country pages, Maps, Rankings, Compare, Share cards, Browse-only
WHO official country-level health indicators.
Health indicators can be estimated or modelled; show calm clinical wording.
Wave 1B source for current account balance after duplicate audit.
IMF data terms with attribution
Semiannual
International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook database
Gameplay, Country pages, Maps, Rankings, Compare, Share cards, Browse-only
IMF macroeconomic country estimates/projections; use latest actual year where possible.
Some IMF values may be estimates; avoid future projections in gameplay.
TerraBrawl Metrics
1Wave 1B source for democracy, corruption, expression, and empowerment indices.
Open source/free with citation
Annual
V-Dem Institute, V-Dem Dataset v16; please cite Coppedge et al. (2026)
Gameplay, Country pages, Maps, Rankings, Compare, Share cards, Browse-only
Expert-coded political indicators; index scales need plain reveal wording.
Expert-coded index; not a direct vote or event count.
Wave 1B/TB-310 source for Nobel birthplace density, official languages, time zones, capital elevation, and root-normalized World Heritage counts. Olympic medals remain deferred because the fast Wikidata event route undercounts recognizable medal-table anchors.
CC0
Monthly
Wikidata contributors, CC0
Gameplay, Country pages, Maps, Rankings, Compare, Share cards, Browse-only
Community-maintained structured facts; use cross-checks for surprising outliers.
Community-maintained data can be incomplete; spot-check high-rank values.
Wave 1B source for POI-derived counts with ODbL produced-work hygiene.
Open Database License (ODbL)
Quarterly
© OpenStreetMap contributors
Gameplay, Country pages, Maps, Rankings, Compare, Share cards, Browse-only
Country-normalized counts of mapped points of interest.
OpenStreetMap completeness varies by country; values reflect mapped features, not guaranteed real-world totals.
TB-341 source for open large/medium/small airport counts by country. Live page checked 2026-05-05; airports.csv response last modified May 5, 2026.
Public Domain
Nightly
OurAirports open data
Gameplay, Country pages, Maps, Rankings, Compare, Share cards, Browse-only
Counts open large, medium, and small airport records in the OurAirports CSV by ISO-2 country code.
Counts airport records, not passenger volume or commercial flight frequency.
TerraBrawl Metrics
1TB-344 source for topology-derived land-border neighbor counts using TerraBrawl's existing World Atlas 1:50m country TopoJSON bundle.
Public Domain
Static
Made with Natural Earth
Gameplay, Country pages, Maps, Rankings, Compare, Share cards, Browse-only
Counts TerraBrawl countries/territories that share at least one TopoJSON boundary arc with the country geometry.
Topology counts reflect the bundled Natural Earth/World Atlas geometry; overseas territories, disputed boundaries, and country/territory treatment may differ from legal border lists.
TerraBrawl Metrics
1TB-308 route for food metrics replacing FAOSTAT direct permission path. Initial implemented pages are meat, seafood, and milk with 168+ mapped countries each.
CC BY-SA text; factual numerical extraction route
Annual Manual Check
Wikipedia contributors, originally compiled from FAOSTAT and other public sources
Gameplay, Country pages, Maps, Rankings, Compare, Share cards, Browse-only
Per-country consumption tables; methodology varies by food item and page.
Estimates come from per-country consumption tables; methodology varies by source.
TB-302 fallback for paid leave after the old ILO TRAVAIL route returned 404; latest importer maps the Wikipedia factual table to 191 TerraBrawl countries.
CC BY-SA text; factual numerical extraction route
Annual Manual Check
Wikipedia contributors, List of minimum annual leave by country
Gameplay, Country pages, Maps, Rankings, Compare, Share cards, Browse-only
Minimum statutory paid vacation days on a five-day workweek; conditional ranges are reduced to the minimum numeric value.
Statutory minimum vacation can differ from actual time off, public holidays, tenure rules, and collective agreements.
TerraBrawl Metrics
1Resolved as clear for WHR-published Figure 2.1 only; not direct Gallup downloads. TB-346 local workbook import maps 146 TerraBrawl countries/territories for the 2025 WHR release.
Publisher free-download grant for Figure 2.1 data
Annual
World Happiness Report (Wellbeing Research Centre, University of Oxford), powered by Gallup World Poll. Data: Figure 2.1 free download.
Country pages, Rankings, Compare, Browse-only
Three-year average life evaluation and explanatory factors from WHR Figure 2.1.
Browse-only backup; OECD life satisfaction remains the default gameplay happiness source.
TerraBrawl Metrics
1Direct UN SDG API country rows for AG_FOOD_WST_PC, filtered to Food Waste Sector=ALL, Reporting Type=G, latest positive TerraBrawl-country value.
UNdata Terms of Use (free reuse with citation)
Annual
United Nations Global SDG Indicators Database, Indicator 12.3.1(b), Food Waste Index Report 2024
Gameplay, Country pages, Maps, Rankings, Compare, Share cards, Browse-only
Kilograms of food waste per person per year across household, food service, and retail sectors.
UN SDG food-waste estimates; confidence varies by country and many values are modelled or estimated.
TerraBrawl Metrics
1TB-342 direct workbook ETL extracted 236 active TerraBrawl ISO-2 country/area rows from the WPP 2024 Estimates sheet for 2023 median age.
CC BY 3.0 IGO
Biennial
United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, World Population Prospects 2024
Gameplay, Country pages, Maps, Rankings, Compare, Share cards, Browse-only
Official UN demographic estimate of median age as of 1 July; latest estimate-year country rows are used for gameplay.
UN WPP values are demographic estimates derived from national census, survey, and vital-registration inputs.
TerraBrawl Metrics
1Limited Or Permission-Tracked
Sources kept visible because they may be browse-only, queued for permission, or legally conditional.
Moved out of Wave 1B until TB-298 courtesy notice is logged.
Link-back requirement; courtesy notice queued
Annual
Cable.co.uk worldwide mobile data pricing research
Browse-only
Average mobile data price research from Cable.co.uk methodology.
Commercial research dataset; keep link-back attribution and pull if source objects.
TerraBrawl Metrics
None activeNo active TerraBrawl metric uses this source right now.
Sensitive-pack only after permission.
Permission required before use
Annual
World Prison Brief, Institute for Crime & Justice Policy Research (ICPR), Birkbeck, University of London.
Browse-only
Prison population and incarceration-rate data.
Sensitive justice metric; permission and clinical wording required.
TerraBrawl Metrics
None activeNo active TerraBrawl metric uses this source right now.
Blocked Or Dropped
Strong ideas that TerraBrawl will not import unless the legal status changes.
Phase 3 only after permission; OSM EV chargers may replace this need.
Standalone datasets excluded from default CC BY 4.0
Annual
International Energy Agency (IEA), Global EV Outlook
Not used in TerraBrawl surfaces
EV data explorer country aggregates.
Do not import until permission is granted.
TerraBrawl Metrics
None activeNo active TerraBrawl metric uses this source right now.
Direct FAOSTAT path dropped; use TB-308 Wikipedia factual-extraction route instead.
FAO terms with addon clause ambiguity
Annual
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAOSTAT)
Not used in TerraBrawl surfaces
Food balance and agriculture aggregates.
Do not import FAOSTAT direct without new permission or legal decision.
TerraBrawl Metrics
None activeNo active TerraBrawl metric uses this source right now.
Direct UNESCO WHC data is blocked; use Wikidata mirror route.
Prior written authorization required
Annual
UNESCO World Heritage Centre
Not used in TerraBrawl surfaces
World Heritage Site counts.
Do not fetch direct UNESCO WHC data for commercial gameplay without written authorization.
TerraBrawl Metrics
None activeNo active TerraBrawl metric uses this source right now.
Strong bar-bet food metric but blocked without permission.
Prior written permission required
Annual
World Instant Noodles Association
Not used in TerraBrawl surfaces
Instant noodle demand by country.
Do not import without WINA permission.
TerraBrawl Metrics
None activeNo active TerraBrawl metric uses this source right now.
Strong product-fit metric but blocked until permission.
All rights reserved / IATA-derived
Quarterly
Henley Passport Index
Not used in TerraBrawl surfaces
Visa-free destination count by passport.
Do not import without permission.
TerraBrawl Metrics
None activeNo active TerraBrawl metric uses this source right now.
Replaced by V-Dem for metric expansion.
Commercial approval required
Annual
Freedom House
Not used in TerraBrawl surfaces
Freedom scores.
Do not use for commercial TerraBrawl content without formal approval.
TerraBrawl Metrics
None activeNo active TerraBrawl metric uses this source right now.
Technically cleared, but user dropped broadband-speed plan because BigQuery integration is too much infrastructure for one metric.
CC BY 4.0
Monthly
Measurement Lab, CC BY 4.0
Not used in TerraBrawl surfaces
NDT7 measurement aggregates.
Dropped unless broadband speed is explicitly reopened.
TerraBrawl Metrics
None activeNo active TerraBrawl metric uses this source right now.