7 Free Data and Economics Research Tools Used by Analysts

Economists, journalists, and policy researchers rely on these tools. They're all free and publicly accessible.

Published May 31, 2026

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FRED Economic Data

fred.stlouisfed.org

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Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis database of over 800,000 economic time series from hundreds of sources.

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Our World in Data

ourworldindata.org

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Interactive charts and research on global development, health, and energy.

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Gapminder

gapminder.org

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Interactive visualization of global development data across health, wealth, and population over time.

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Statista

statista.com

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Statistics and market research portal aggregating data from 22,500+ sources, with infographic exports and curated industry reports.

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Data Commons

datacommons.org

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Google project aggregating public datasets from governments and research institutions into one queryable graph.

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Kaggle

kaggle.com

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Community platform for datasets, machine learning competitions, and collaborative notebooks.

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Datasette

datasette.io

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Open-source tool for exploring, publishing, and sharing SQLite databases as a browsable web API.

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