Here are some sources for data about India and South Asia; governmental, research and more. To add to this list, please submit a pull request.
Please do NOT add data sources containing personal identifying information (e.g. people's contact/biometric information, addresses etc.) or otherwise private data that you are not authorized to share.
- Indian Government data dashboard
- India Data Handbook: A pay-what-you-like collection of more than 2,000 data indicators about India
- Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation
- BoxOfficeMojo
- BookMyShow
- The Indian Movie Database: Dataset of Bollywood movies from 1950-2019 aggregating information from IMDB and MovieLens
- FCRA Disclosures: Database of associations registered under the Foreign Contributions Regulation Act (FCRA) and quarterly disclosures of foreign contributions to those organizations
- National Crime Records Bureau:
- Accidental Deaths and Suicides in India (ADSI): Accidental deaths and suicides in 2015 and accidental deaths and suicides in 1967–2014, and the proforma for accidental deaths and suicides
- Crime in India: Crime in 2016 and crime in 1953–2015, and the proforma for crime in India data
- Fingerprint in India: Performance reports of state/union territory and central fingerprinting bureaus: Fingerprinting reports in 2016 and Fingerprinting reports in 2012-2015
- Prison Statistics in India (PSI): Prison statistics in 2017 and prison statistics in 1995–2016, and the proforma for prison statistics
- Proforma for Anti-Human Trafficking
- ZipNet Project: ZipNet collects data from a handful of states about stolen vehicles, unclaimed/seized vehicles and missing mobile phones. (cw: death/dead bodies, mental illness – this portal also has databases of unidentified dead bodies with their photos, and unidentified found people with references to mental illness)
- Delhi Government Edudel portal:
- National Achievement Survey: Data on the performance of students in classes 3, 5 and 8
- School Report Cards from U-DISE: Database of all public and private schools in the country.
- Agmarket: Database on the MSPs of several commodities in different Indian markets
- Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy
- Comtrade: UN global trade data and statistics
- Corporate Social Responsibility Spending: Disclosures of corporate social responsibility (CSR) expenditures under Section 135 of the Companies Act, 2013
- Design of Trade Agreements: Project collecting data about international trade agreements including treaty name, treaty type and regions involved
- IMF Database of Interwar Debt: Data on outstanding debt amounts and qualitative information such as instrument type, coupon rate, maturity, and currency of issue
- Ministry of Commerce and Industry: Commodity-wise import and export data
- Open Budgets India: Repository for state government budgets
- Reserve Bank of India: A list of RBI data releases
- Database on Indian Economy: RBI's database of the Indian economy (banking, price,s income etc.)
- SHRUG: Socioeconomic High-resolution Rural-Urban Geographic data for India
- Standardized World Income Inequality Database: Compare Gini indices of disposable and market income inequality for 196 countries
- Union Budget
- Council on Energy, Environment and Water: A South Asian non-profit policy research institution
- Global Coal Plant Tracker: Global Energy Monitor tracks 12,000+ operational, retired and under-development coal plants across the globe
- Global Fossil projects Tracker: Global Energy Monitor tracks 2,000+ coal and gas terminals, and oil and gas pipelines across the globe
- Rural Electricity Demand in India survey data: Data on 10,000 households and 2,000 rural enterprises across 200 villages in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Odisha and Rajasthan
- United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization: Annual harvest area, production quantity and yield data for food items and categories by country and geographic regions since 1961
- International Environmental Agreements: Database of thousands of multilateral and bilateral environmental agreements with data on country membership, performance data, secretariat and summary statistics. Includes data on pre-1947 India
- Global 2010 Tree Cover: 30m .tifs of the estimated 2010 tree canopy cover from the Global Land Analysis and Discovery (GLAD) laboratory at the University of Maryland
- Mining areas: Polygon data of global surface areas dedicated to mining coal and metal ores from the Fineprint project at the Vienna University of Economics and Business
- Protected Planet: Data on protected land and water areas from the UN's World Commission on Protected Areas
- Birding2Asia recordings: A list of bird recording compilations across India
- Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change: Publications and Reports
- Wildlife Crime Control Bureau
- Wildlife Protection Society of India
- MandiGuru: Daily vegetable market rates in Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh
- Global Health Security Index: A comprehensive assessment of how countries compare to each other in their ability to prevent, detect and respond to global epidemics in terms of their health systems, compliance with international norms and overall risk factors
- National Family Health Survey
- US Travel Advisories
- Weekly Disease Outbreaks: The National Centre for Disease Control publishes weekly summaries of disease outbreaks in the country
- Imperial Roots of Global Trade: A brief economic dataset of 150+ historical empires and the modern day countries associated with them
- Election Affidavit Archive: Check the affidavits for State and Parliamentary Elections
- Election Commission of India: Download general and assembly election result data, available in PDF and Excel formats
- Lok Dhaba: Browse and download general and assembly elections data, courtesy of the Trivedi Centre for Political Data at Ashoka University
- My Neta: Database by the Association for Democratic Reforms with details of all candidates in local, state and national elections
- Lok Sabha Q&A
- PM Modi's speeches
- PRS Database on MPs: See attendance and participation for every Member of the Parliament
- Rajya Sabha Q&A
- Ethnic Power Relations: A collection of six dataset created by the Swiss Institute Technology about ethnic groups in the world:
- Meteoritical Bulletin Database: A list of meteorites from India including the year of discovery or fall, type, mass and location
- Bharat Maps: Visualise data from the National Informatics Centre on an interactive map
- Natural Earth Data: Free downloads of cultural, physical and raster data for India and the rest of the world
- South Asia Shaded Relief: Provided by the CIA, aggregated as part of the Shaded Relief Archive
- Telangana Shapefiles: State, district, mandal and revenue shapefiles
- Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED): ACLED collects and maps data on incidences of protests and political violence in South Asia and the rest of the world. Use the ACLED codebook for more information on the data itself.
- South Asian Terrorism Portal
- Indian UNESCO Heritage Sites
- Migration Policy Centre: Global Visa Cost Dataset based on 2019 data from government websites, in US dollars
- Ministry of Tourism
- FlightAware: International flight tracking data and information
- Open Street Data: Delhi: IIT-Delhi and Delhi's Department of Transportation provides static data on transit and makes real-time data available for download
- Open Transit Delhi: Real time data on buses in Delhi
- Uber Movement: Uber data on travel times in cities around the world
- Central Control Room for Air Quality Management
- Central Pollution Control Board
- CCR Comparative Data
- Delhi Pollution Control Committee(daily data)
- National Air Quality Index for India
- Air Quality Life Index: Global data on the analysis of air quality and life expectancy by the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago
- AirNow: Daily PM2.5 levels at US consulates and embassies
- Urban Emissions
- Climate Action Tracker: This collaboration between Climate Analytics and New Climate Institute tracks several climate change indicators for 32 countries, including compatibility with 1.5°C and 2°C global warming targets
- Climate Policy Database: A database of climate policies for almost every country
- NASA FIRMS active fire data: A global dataset of active fires in the world in the last seven days. Use VIIRS data for greater accuracy, available as .csv, .shp and .kml files
- FIRMS archive download: For data older than the last week
- IMD Pune: National data on precipitation and rainfall
- Indian Meteorological Department
- US NOAA: Daily precipitation data for thousands of stations across India
- NASA EOSDIS Worldview: World satellite images available as .jpegs and .tiffs
- Sentinel Hub
- Minimum temperature across India: A map of the daily minimum temperature at hundreds of weather stations across India, collected by the IMD
- Joint Typhoon Warning Center: Paths and wind strength of typhoons in Asia in near-real time.