---
title: "Country Profiles"
group: "Research archives"
order: 5
summary: "Dated national indicators, country comparisons and a research desk for locally accountable profiles."
status: live
statusNote: "217 country/economy data profiles and a local research desk. Locally coauthored narrative profiles remain a separate milestone."
conditions: ["proximity-pull", "missing-voice"]
firstMilestone: "Ten profiles, each co-written with someone who lives there."
help:
  - "Draft a profile from open data using the template below."
  - "Partner with local researchers so profiles are written from inside each country."
related: ["/record/open-datasets/", "/record/cause-atlas/"]
---

## Statistical profiles and local authorship

The data desk publishes dated World Bank observations for 217 countries and economies. It offers comparable units, exact observation years, original-producer metadata, source links and exportable research briefs. These statistical pages are not locally coauthored narratives and do not claim to identify a country’s priorities.

A full narrative profile still needs people living there to shape the question, challenge the interpretation and identify missing voices. The private worksheet prepares that work without inventing it.

## A reproducible snapshot

Five indicators cover population, life expectancy, under-five mortality, electricity access and basic drinking water. Each country uses the latest non-empty observation within 2020–2025. Missing values remain unknown. No composite need score, charity ranking or global funding estimate is inferred.