ITU Indicators API

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: ITU DataHub Indicators API
  version: '2'
  summary: Undocumented public JSON API behind the ITU DataHub ICT statistics portal.
  description: 'ITU publishes **no** OpenAPI, no reference documentation, and no terms of programmatic use for this API. This document is an API Evangelist **observed-behaviour** description: every path, parameter, status code and response shape below was recorded from live, anonymous HTTP calls against `https://api.datahub.itu.int/v2` on 2026-07-25/26. Nothing here is invented — where a behaviour was not observed it is simply absent.


    The route templates were recovered from the DataHub Next.js client bundle (`datahub.itu.int/_next/static/chunks/*.js`), which hardcodes the base URL `https://api.datahub.itu.int/v2`, and each recovered route was then called to confirm it exists and to capture its real response. Treat this surface as an internal backend that happens to be public rather than as a supported product API: it can change without notice.


    No authentication of any kind is required. No API key, no `Referer`, no `Origin`, no `User-Agent`. `Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *` is returned on every response. The service runs on AWS API Gateway behind CloudFront (`x-amzn-requestid`, `x-amz-cf-id` response headers).'
  contact:
    name: ITU ICT Data & Analytics Division
    email: indicators@itu.int
    url: https://datahub.itu.int/
  license:
    name: ITU Terms of Use
    url: https://www.itu.int/en/about/Pages/terms-of-use.aspx
  x-apievangelist-provenance:
    method: derived
    derived_from: live anonymous HTTP probes + the public DataHub client bundle
    probed: '2026-07-26'
    provider_published_spec: false
    note: Derived by API Evangelist from observed responses. ITU has not published, reviewed, or endorsed this description.
servers:
- url: https://api.datahub.itu.int/v2
  description: Production (AWS API Gateway + CloudFront). Anonymous.
tags:
- name: Indicators
  description: The indicator dictionary — categories, definitions, units and coverage.
paths:
  /dictionaries/getcategories:
    get:
      operationId: getIndicatorCategories
      tags:
      - Indicators
      summary: Get the indicator dictionary
      description: Returns the complete DataHub indicator dictionary as a category / sub-category / item tree. Each leaf item carries the `codeID` used by the data endpoints, its label, the owning `databaseID`, and whether it is a collection indicator.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The indicator dictionary tree.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: array
                items:
                  $ref: '#/components/schemas/IndicatorCategory'
  /dictionaries/getbyid/{codeID}:
    get:
      operationId: getIndicatorById
      tags:
      - Indicators
      summary: Get one indicator definition
      description: Returns the full metadata record for a single indicator — label, description, units, answer type, start and end year, category placement, the list of countries with data (`availableCountries`), sibling and disaggregation series, and the landing page.
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/codeID'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The indicator definition.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: array
                items:
                  $ref: '#/components/schemas/IndicatorDefinition'
        '500':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/UnknownIdentifier'
components:
  schemas:
    IndicatorSubCategory:
      type: object
      properties:
        subCategory:
          type: string
        subCategorySort:
          type: integer
        items:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/IndicatorItem'
    IndicatorItem:
      type: object
      properties:
        codeID:
          type: integer
        label:
          type: string
        databaseID:
          type: integer
        seriesType:
          type: string
        indicatorSort:
          type: integer
        external:
          type: boolean
        isCollection:
          type: boolean
    IndicatorDefinition:
      type: object
      description: The full metadata record for one indicator.
      properties:
        codeID:
          type: integer
        code:
          type: string
          description: The ITU short indicator code
          e.g. "i99H".: null
        label:
          type: string
        codeDesc:
          type: string
        units:
          type: string
        unitsType:
          type: string
        alternativeUnits: {}
        answerType:
          type: string
        startYear:
          type: integer
        endYear:
          type: integer
        category:
          type: string
        categorySort:
          type: integer
        indicatorCategory:
          type: string
        indicatorCategorySort:
          type: integer
        subCategory:
          type: string
        subCategorySort:
          type: integer
        databaseID:
          type: integer
        codeVisibility:
          type: string
          description: e.g. "Public/Free".
        seriesType:
          type: string
        archive:
          type: boolean
        external:
          type: boolean
        indicatorSort:
          type: integer
        disaggregation:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
        disaggregationSort:
          type: integer
        sibling:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
        availableCountries:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
        landingPage:
          type: string
        Question:
          type: string
        Comment:
          type: string
    IndicatorCategory:
      type: object
      properties:
        category:
          type: string
        categorySort:
          type: integer
        subCategory:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/IndicatorSubCategory'
  parameters:
    codeID:
      name: codeID
      in: path
      required: true
      description: The DataHub indicator identifier, from `getIndicatorCategories`.
      schema:
        type: integer
      example: 11624
  responses:
    UnknownIdentifier:
      description: Observed on an unknown identifier. The body is a plain-text runtime error string, not JSON and not RFC 9457 problem+json — e.g. `Cannot set properties of undefined (setting 'availableCountries')`.
      content:
        text/plain:
          schema:
            type: string
externalDocs:
  description: ITU DataHub portal (the only human surface for this API)
  url: https://datahub.itu.int/