What's the Most Popular World Bank Open Data? Many of you ask what the most popular resources on the open data sites are. I can usually offer a rough answer, but I thought I'd take a moment to respond to the question properly. There's more analysis below, but here's the summary of most popular pages and downloads from the data site: Is this what you were expecting? Does it correspond with how you use the site? How am I doing this analysis? For context: since launch in April 2010, the data site has had over 17 million visits, and over the last 6 months, averaged 740,000 visits per month. Additionally over the last year, the DataBank query tool received 2.8 million visits and the API was used by about 250,000 unique IPs - these last two resources won't factor into the analysis. First, here's the raw data (628KB XLS) I'm working from. I've pulled the last 12 months of usage data for data.worldbank.org and done some light processing to produce the indicative rankings in this post. For both the pages and download rankings below, I've done some rough aggregating for highly visited pages that are similar e.g. GDP and GDP Growth or the same pages in different languages. I've left out the numbers of pageviews and percentages from the tables because to get numbers beyond the "rough aggregating of popular pages" I'm doing would take more time and cleaning of the data that comes out of our analytics software. The