Websites: Data, Indicators, Maps, and Rankings

Web Links

American Panorama: An Atlas of United States History
America's Brain Health Index
America’s Health Rankings (United Health Foundation)
Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States
Beautiful Solutions
Beyond Academe
Big Think: Blogs, Articles and Videos from the World's Top Thinkers and Leaders
Brennan Center for Justice
California Communities Environmental Health Screening Tool
Center for International Earth Science Information Network
Center for International Policy
Charts Bin
Citizen Source
Climate Central
Constitute Project: The World’s Constitutions to Read, Search, and Compare
County Health Rankings
Deep Civilisation: The long view of humanity - a series that aims to stand back from the news cycle and widen the lens of our current place in time (BBC)
Digital History - University of Houston
Economic Policy Institute
Environmental Performance Index (formerly ESI)
Flowing Data
Gapminder: Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view
Genocide Studies Program (Yale University)
Genuine Progress Indicator for EU
Geography and Map Reading Room - The Library of Congress
Global Health Observatory (WHO)
Global Human Development Indicators (UNDP)
Global Peace Index
Global Slavery Index
Hate Map (Southern Poverty Law Center)
Humanity's cultural history captured in 5-minute film By Alison Abbott (Nature)
Immigration Explorer (The New York Times)
Inclusive Wealth Index
Inequality.org
International Centre for Prison Studies
Jackson Institute for Global Affairs (Yale University)
Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life
Justice Everywhere
Justice Mapping Center
KOF - Index of Globalization
Mapping Poverty in America (The New York Times)
Mapping the Nation
Mapping the Nation's Well-Being (The New York Times)
Measure of America: American Human Development Project
Migration Data Portal
NationMaster: World Statistics, Country Comparisons
OECD Better Life Index
One-third of all slavery is visible from space By Matt Davis (Big Think)
PEW Research Center
PISA - OECD Programme for International Student Assessment
Planet Money (NPR)
Political Cartoons
Population Pyramids of the World from 1950 to 2100
Public Policy Polling
Population Reference Bureau
RSA: Ideas and actions for a 21st century enlightenment
SEDAC - Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center
SIPRI - Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Social Progress Index
Solutions U
Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity
STAT Silk: Interactive Maps and Visualizations
Statistic Brain
The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (University of Cambridge)
The Club of Rome
The Conversation: In-depth analysis, research, news and ideas from leading academics and researchers
The Equality Trust
The Geography of Government Benefits (The New York Times)
The Glaser Progress Foundation
The Global Flow of People By Nikola Sander, Guy J. Abel, and Ramon Bauer
The Long Now
The Numbers: How do U.S. taxes compare internationally? (The Tax Policy Center)
The Opportunity Atlas
The Stanford Center for the Study of Inequality and Poverty
The Ultimate History Project
The Upshot: Politics, Policy, Economics and Everyday Life (The New York Times)
These are all the world's major religions in one map By Frank Jacobs (Big Think)
The Upshot, Five Years In By The Upshot Staff (The New York Times)
Time Maps
Transparency (Harvard Kennedy School)
Transparency International: The global coalition against corruption 
22 Maps and Charts That Will Surprise You By Ezra Klein (Vox)
UNICEF - The State of the World's Children
U.S. History Timeline
Vision of Humanity: Institute for Economics and Peace
Walk Free Foundation
World Happiness Report
World History Timeline
Worldmapper
World Life Expectancy
World Population History
World Resources Institute
World Values Survey