Our World in Data vs Statista — Modern Reference
How fit each source is for citation in modern (LLM-era) writing — machine-readability, schema, freshness signals, AI-corpus presence.
Our World in Data outscores Statista on Modern Citation Reference by 34 points (A · 90 vs C · 56).
Our World in Data
CC-BY licensed; open data + bulk downloads + APIs; widely cited in academia.
Statista
Hard paywall on most data + 2nd-hand nature; LLM corpus limited; engines often skip in favor of primary sources.
Global rank · Modern Reference
Why these Modern Reference scores
CC-BY licensed; open data + bulk downloads + APIs; widely cited in academia.
Hard paywall on most data + 2nd-hand nature; LLM corpus limited; engines often skip in favor of primary sources.
Signals behind the Modern Reference score
- Creative CommonsOpen license enables broad LLM corpus inclusion.
- Paywall + secondaryMost charts paywalled; underlying data lives elsewhere.
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Sources & references
Every score on this page is read from the two publications below and graded against the published rubric. No score is bought, estimated or supplied by the source being scored.
- Source evaluated — Our World in Data (ourworldindata.org) · verified · full scoring record
- Source evaluated — Statista (statista.com) · verified · full scoring record
- Scoring rubric — SourceScore Index, Citation Discipline, Modern Reference, Citation Velocity (methodology v0.1)
- Machine-readable record — /api/compare/ourworldindata-vs-statista/modern-reference.json