# UNICEF Data

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/unicef-data/  
**Website:** https://data.unicef.org  
**APIs profiled:** 26

UNICEF Data is the official open data platform of the United Nations Children's Fund, providing programmatic access to global child welfare statistics, health and nutrition indicators, education data, child protection metrics, MICS (Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey) results, and SDG indicators for children across countries worldwide. The primary API is an SDMX REST web service exposing UNICEF's Data Warehouse, which contains 748+ indicators organized into thematic dataflows covering demography, maternal and child health, nutrition, HIV/AIDS, WASH, education, and gender. All data is freely accessible without authentication, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 IGO.

## Kin Score — 39.0 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 39.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 54.9 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 5.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 28.6 |
| Commercial Clarity | 39.5 |
| Access Clarity | 39.5 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 31.5 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 32.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Free · Open access — onboarding: open, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (26)

- **UNICEF SDMX Data Warehouse API** — The UNICEF SDMX REST API provides programmatic access to UNICEF's Data Warehouse Explorer, containing 748+ indicators across thematic dataflows covering child health, nutrition,...
- **UNICEF Data Basemap API** — The Basemap API from UNICEF Data — 2 operation(s) for basemap.
- **UNICEF Data Code List API** — The Code List API from UNICEF Data — 3 operation(s) for code list.
- **UNICEF Data Codelist API** — The Codelist API from UNICEF Data — 4 operation(s) for codelist.
- **UNICEF Data CollectionProcess API** — The CollectionProcess API from UNICEF Data — 1 operation(s) for collectionprocess.
- **UNICEF Data Context layer API** — The Context layer API from UNICEF Data — 6 operation(s) for context layer.
- **UNICEF Data Country API** — The Country API from UNICEF Data — 3 operation(s) for country.
- **UNICEF Data Custodian API** — The Custodian API from UNICEF Data — 1 operation(s) for custodian.
- **UNICEF Data Dashboard API** — The Dashboard API from UNICEF Data — 5 operation(s) for dashboard.
- **UNICEF Data Data Browser API** — The Data Browser API from UNICEF Data — 1 operation(s) for data browser.
- **UNICEF Data DataSource API** — The DataSource API from UNICEF Data — 1 operation(s) for datasource.
- **UNICEF Data Group API** — The Group API from UNICEF Data — 2 operation(s) for group.
- **UNICEF Data HowMany API** — The HowMany API from UNICEF Data — 2 operation(s) for howmany.
- **UNICEF Data Indicator API** — The Indicator API from UNICEF Data — 10 operation(s) for indicator.
- **UNICEF Data IndicatorClassification API** — The IndicatorClassification API from UNICEF Data — 1 operation(s) for indicatorclassification.
- **UNICEF Data Language API** — The Language API from UNICEF Data — 1 operation(s) for language.
- **UNICEF Data Reference datasets API** — The Reference datasets API from UNICEF Data — 8 operation(s) for reference datasets.
- **UNICEF Data Region API** — The Region API from UNICEF Data — 4 operation(s) for region.
- **UNICEF Data Related table API** — The Related table API from UNICEF Data — 2 operation(s) for related table.
- **UNICEF Data Related table data API** — The Related table data API from UNICEF Data — 3 operation(s) for related table data.
- **UNICEF Data Sector API** — The Sector API from UNICEF Data — 4 operation(s) for sector.
- **UNICEF Data StrategicPlan API** — The StrategicPlan API from UNICEF Data — 6 operation(s) for strategicplan.
- **UNICEF Data Style API** — The Style API from UNICEF Data — 2 operation(s) for style.
- **UNICEF Data Tag API** — The Tag API from UNICEF Data — 1 operation(s) for tag.
- **UNICEF Data User API** — The User API from UNICEF Data — 2 operation(s) for user.
- **UNICEF Data YearAssignmentMethod API** — The YearAssignmentMethod API from UNICEF Data — 1 operation(s) for yearassignmentmethod.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Unicef Data Agentic Access** — 117 operations · 50 acting

## Security (2)

- **Unicef Data Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Unicef Data Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Unicef Data Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Children, Child Welfare, Global Health, Statistics, SDG, MICS, Education, Nutrition, SDMX, Open Data, United Nations, UNICEF

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/unicef-data/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.