The following is a non-exhaustive list of datasets and data resources relevant to the world of impact and impact investing.

Some of these datasets have been integrated into this website.

Efforts to collect and share data in the impact investing space are ongoing and vibrant.

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Datasets By Topic / Thematic Focus

  • Sustainable Finance
  • Outcomes Based Finance
  • Climate
  • SDGs
  • ESG

Sustainable finance datasets

Datasets of general interest to the world of sustainable finance and associated themes

id Dataset Description Publisher Link Year Published
1 Publicly listed B Corps A 2022 listing of publicly traded certified B Corps (hosted on data.world) B Lab 2022
id Dataset Description Publisher Link Year Published

Outcomes-based finance data

Datasets sharing data about outcomes-based finance approaches including both impact bonds (all variants) and outcomes funds

Dataset Name Description Publishing Entity Link Update Frequency
Social and development impact bonds by the numbers – monthly snapshots Brookings Institution in Washington DC publishes a monthly summary of global impact bonds as computed according to their methodology. Constituent bonds, however, are not disclosed Brookings Institution Monthly
Impact Bond Dataset The impact bond dataset is one of the data projects maintained by INDIGO and lists deployed impact bonds around the world INDIGO (GO Lab, Oxford University) Ongoing
Impact Bonds Database This database focuses specifically on education-themed impact bonds Norrag Global Education Center (housed at: Geneva Graduate Institute) Unknown
Global SIBs Database A global directory of impact bonds collated by Ben Murphy in Rochester, New York Ben Murphy (private individual) Unknown
Outcomes Funds Directory The outcomes funds dataset is maintained by INDIGO and tracks deployed outcomes funds globally INDIGO (GO Lab, Oxford University) Ongoing
Pipeline Dataset The pipeline dataset is maintained by INDIGO and is a composite of pay for success projects in the pipeline including both impact bonds and outcomes funds INDIGO (GO Lab, Oxford University) Ongoing
Emerging Outcomes Funds This data table is derived from open sources (like financial news) and lists outcomes funds that are in the process of deploying globally ImpactDB Periodic
Dataset Name Description Publishing Entity Link Update Frequency

Climate Data

Data about climate finance, emissions, and more

Dataset Description Thematic Focus Publisher Link id
Dataset Description Thematic Focus Publisher Link id

UN SDGs datasets

Datasets about progress towards the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Dataset Description Publisher Link
SDG Dataset (UN) United Nations
Dataset Description Publisher Link

ESG datasets

Datasets about environmental, social, and governance performance among companies

Dataset Description Publisher Link
ESG data draft dataset World Bank
Sovereign ESG data portal World Bank
Dataset Description Publisher Link

Datasets By Publisher

  • National Government Data Portals
  • Multilateral Institutions

Open access data portals maintained by national governments. Not all of these include data about financial sustainability and progress towards SDG goals (etc) but many do. In some cases, governments operate multiple data portals (in which case they are listed here as separate entities)

Publishing Government Data Portal Name Description Link
US Data.Gov US national data portal
Israel Data.Gov.Il National data portal of Israel
India Data.Gov.In India data portal
South Korea Korea Data South Korean data portal
UK UK Data Service UK national data service
Sweden Sveriges Data Portal Sweden's data portal
Publishing Government Data Portal Name Description Link

Multilateral data portals

Data portals maintained by multilateral institutions

Dataset Name Publisher Description Link
SDG Dataset (UN) United Nations
World Bank ESG Data Portal World Bank
EU Data Portal European Union
IMF Data International Monetary Fund (IMF)
OECD Data OECD
Sovereign ESG data portal World Bank
ESG Data Draft dataset World Bank
Dataset Name Publisher Description Link

Non governmental organisations (NGOs) and other non profit motivated entities publishing data and datasets relevant to the world of impact investing and development finance

ImpactDB