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Futuros is an atlas of development indicators for Latin America. It is not an open-data index or a responsible-AI index. Every on-screen figure cites the primary record. If a civic-space source is missing from this page, it is not in the Atlas: that absence is the point.

The live product covers 25 countries + LATAM, 10 axes and 260 cells. Provenance is two clicks — one click opens the reference; the second goes to the country + indicator record, not a generic landing — and the build fails if a citation link points to a generic landing. The machinery is in Provenance and citations. How data enters the corpus is in The data pipeline.

Atlas coverage

The 25 Atlas countries are ARG, BLZ, BOL, BRA, CHL, COL, CRI, CUB, DOM, ECU, GTM, GUY, HND, HTI, JAM, MEX, NIC, PAN, PER, PRY, SLV, SUR, TTO, URY, VEN, plus the regional LATAM row.

The Bahamas and Barbados have NSO cards in the repository; they are not part of the 260 cells.

Multilateral and UN system (live ingest)

  • World Bank: Open Data / WDI, Human Capital, PIP (poverty at international lines), BOOST, Findex, GovTech, education/social, infrastructure/trade, projects
  • CEPALSTAT / CELADE (ECLAC): comparable demography for the 25; also poverty, Gini, social public spending, Gender Equality Observatory
  • WHO · Global Health Observatory
  • PAHO · Basic Indicators
  • UNICEF Data Warehouse (immunization, skilled birth attendance, water, sanitation, antenatal, breastfeeding)
  • Joint malnutrition estimates (UNICEF / WHO / World Bank)
  • UNESCO UIS
  • ILO · ILOSTAT (informality, unemployment, NEET, labour-force participation, working poverty, social protection)
  • FAO · FAOSTAT
  • UNHCR · Refugee Data Finder
  • UNODC · Crime & Criminal Justice
  • UN · SDG database
  • UNCTAD / UNCTADstat
  • WTO (merchandise and services trade, via DBnomics)
  • IMF · World Economic Outlook and PortWatch
  • OECD · Revenue Statistics in LAC
  • ITU Data Hub

Climate, energy, disasters, connectivity

  • Climate Watch (WRI / CAIT)
  • Climate TRACE
  • Ember · annual electricity
  • IRENA · renewable capacity
  • EIA International
  • GDACS
  • INFORM (JRC, via HDX)
  • OpenAQ
  • USGS · earthquakes
  • Global Energy Monitor
  • Cloudflare Radar
  • APNIC Labs · IPv6
  • TeleGeography · submarine cables

Governance, justice, conflict

  • V-Dem
  • International IDEA · Global State of Democracy and electoral participation
  • World Justice Project · Rule of Law Index
  • Bertelsmann Transformation Index
  • Transparency International · CPI
  • Political Terror Scale
  • UCDP · Georeferenced Event Dataset
  • Fragile States Index (Fund for Peace)

Economy, inequality, science

  • World Inequality Database
  • OpenAlex
  • GitHub Innovation Graph
  • Our World in Data (series layer; does not replace the primary citation)
  • PeeringDB
  • Yale Environmental Performance Index
  • Green Climate Fund, IFC, MIGA (projects / guarantees)

National offices and observatories

Wired with their own endpoint, plus a curated NSO / central-bank layer:

  • Costa Rica: Programa Estado de la Nación; INEC
  • Brazil: IBGE · Synthesis of Social Indicators
  • Argentina: INDEC · Time Series
  • Uruguay: INE + MIDES / Social Observatory
  • Chile: INE.Stat
  • Colombia: DANE
  • Mexico: SESNSP (crime incidence); INEGI as NSO
  • Ecuador: INEC
  • Peru: INEI and BCRP
  • Paraguay: INE · EPHC
  • Bolivia: INE / BCB
  • Honduras: INE · EPHPM

NSO directory of the 25 (regional demography enters via CEPALSTAT): INDEC (ARG), SIB (BLZ), INE (BOL), IBGE (BRA), INE (CHL), DANE (COL), INEC (CRI), ONEI (CUB), ONE (DOM), INEC (ECU), INE (GTM), Bureau of Statistics (GUY), INE (HND), IHSI (HTI), STATIN (JAM), INEGI (MEX), INIDE (NIC), INEC (PAN), INEI (PER), INE (PRY), ONEC/BCR (SLV), ABS/GBS (SUR), CSO (TTO), INE (URY), INE (VEN).

What we do not ingest

  • Global Data Barometer
  • Global Index on Responsible AI (GIRAI)
  • ACLED and Crunchbase are cite-only; they are not baked

Every figure with its source — traceability is the contract.