Provenance
Sources
Every dataset the site ingests, who publishes it, under what license, how often it updates and which metrics it feeds. Derived metrics cite the Humanity Vector methodology as their source so the formula is auditable in the same way.
ALFRED archival vintages (FRED API realtime parameters)
- Metrics fed
- 0
- Observations
- 0
- Cadence
- a new vintage on every source release
- Coverage
- not recorded
- Runs
- none
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, ALFRED.
FRED economic data (API)
- Metrics fed
- 20
- Observations
- 85,204
- Cadence
- series dependent: daily to annual
- Coverage
- not recorded
- Runs
- 10 of last 10 succeeded
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, FRED. Individual series carry their own originating-source license.
FAOSTAT (bulk download service)
- Metrics fed
- 8
- Observations
- 62,914
- Cadence
- annual, domain dependent (each domain carries its own DateUpdate)
- Coverage
- world, FAO regions (not stored), countries mapped to ISO3 through UN M49 codes; 1961 to present, domain dependent (food security from 2000)
- Runs
- 9 of last 9 succeeded
FAO. 2026. FAOSTAT: [Domain name]. Accessed on [DD Month YYYY]. https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data. Licence: CC-BY-4.0. Data used with attribution and not for or in conjunction with the promotion of a commercial enterprise, product or service.
Humanity Vector documented derivations
- Metrics fed
- 26
- Observations
- 10,406
- Cadence
- recomputed after every ingestion of component series
- Coverage
- depends on component series; depends on component series
- Runs
- 19 of last 20 succeeded
Humanity Vector, derived from cited sources, formulas published on the metric page
World Economic Outlook database (IMF Data SDMX 2.1 API)
- Metrics fed
- 4
- Observations
- 34,466
- Cadence
- twice a year (April and October WEO), with interim updates
- Coverage
- World aggregate (G001) and about 195 economies by ISO3; IMF analytical groups are not stored; 1980 to the latest actual year per country; projection years are not stored
- Runs
- 9 of last 9 succeeded
International Monetary Fund. World Economic Outlook (WEO), https://data.imf.org/en/datasets/IMF.RES:WEO. Accessed on [current date].
- Metrics fed
- 1
- Observations
- 215
- Cadence
- dataset dependent
- Coverage
- not recorded
- Runs
- 9 of last 9 succeeded
NASA.
- Metrics fed
- 5
- Observations
- 1,834
- Cadence
- daily to monthly, dataset dependent
- Coverage
- not recorded
- Runs
- 9 of last 9 succeeded
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information.
- Metrics fed
- 3
- Observations
- 29,644
- Cadence
- dataflow dependent: monthly for short-term indicators, annual for productivity and R&D
- Coverage
- OECD total (stored as aggregate OECD), member and partner economies by ISO3; other aggregates (EU27, euro area, G7) are not stored; 1970 to present, dataflow dependent (industrial production monthly from 1975)
- Runs
- 2 of last 20 succeeded
OECD (2026), [dataset name], OECD Data Explorer, https://data-explorer.oecd.org (accessed on [date]).
The Space Devs, Launch Library 2 (LL2) API
- Metrics fed
- 4
- Observations
- 40
- Cadence
- continuous; launch records are corrected after the fact
- Coverage
- not recorded
- Runs
- 9 of last 9 succeeded
Data: The Space Devs, Launch Library 2
BEA Data API
- Metrics fed
- 2
- Observations
- 384
- Cadence
- monthly and quarterly releases; NIPA tables revised annually
- Coverage
- not recorded
- Runs
- 10 of last 10 succeeded
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
BLS Public Data API v2
- Metrics fed
- 2
- Observations
- 2,110
- Cadence
- monthly releases on the published BLS schedule
- Coverage
- not recorded
- Runs
- 10 of last 10 succeeded
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
CFTC Commitments of Traders (public reporting API)
- Metrics fed
- 6
- Observations
- 6,372
- Cadence
- weekly (Friday release for Tuesday positions)
- Coverage
- not recorded
- Runs
- 9 of last 9 succeeded
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
Treasury Fiscal Data API
- Metrics fed
- 4
- Observations
- 14,539
- Cadence
- daily for debt and cash statements, monthly for receipts and outlays
- Coverage
- not recorded
- Runs
- 10 of last 10 succeeded
U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service.
EIA Open Data API v2
- Metrics fed
- 4
- Observations
- 8,307
- Cadence
- series dependent: weekly, monthly and annual
- Coverage
- not recorded
- Runs
- 10 of last 10 succeeded
U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Form EIA-860M, Monthly Update to the Annual Electric Generator Report
- Metrics fed
- 13
- Observations
- 8,457
- Cadence
- monthly, about two months after the data month
- Coverage
- United States (the Puerto Rico sheets are not read); Operating and retired generators with operating dates back to the early 1900s; planned generators through the planning horizon; monthly files from 2015
- Runs
- 5 of last 5 succeeded
U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-860M
USGS National Minerals Information Center, Mineral Commodity Summaries
- Metrics fed
- 7
- Observations
- 571
- Cadence
- annual (Mineral Commodity Summaries each January or February, data release a few weeks later)
- Coverage
- not recorded
- Runs
- 3 of last 3 succeeded
U.S. Geological Survey, Mineral Commodity Summaries
USAspending API v2
- Metrics fed
- 5
- Observations
- 233
- Cadence
- daily award updates; monthly agency submissions
- Coverage
- not recorded
- Runs
- 9 of last 9 succeeded
USAspending.gov, U.S. Department of the Treasury.
SEC EDGAR submissions and XBRL CompanyFacts
- Metrics fed
- 0
- Observations
- 0
- Cadence
- continuous; CompanyFacts refreshed as filings are processed
- Coverage
- not recorded
- Runs
- 3 of last 3 succeeded
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR.
World Development Indicators
- Metrics fed
- 13
- Observations
- 154,948
- Cadence
- annual, revised continuously
- Coverage
- world, regions, countries; 1960 to present, series dependent
- Runs
- 11 of last 11 succeeded
World Bank, World Development Indicators, CC BY 4.0