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UNICEF Data

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.

agent aware

Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles UNICEF Data the way a machine reads it — 65 machine-readable artifacts across 2 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — UNICEF Data scores 37.4/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 28/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
UNICEF Data Kin Score — API readiness rating by API Evangelist

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How we profile UNICEF Data

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for UNICEF Data. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 26

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

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.

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Open Collections 26

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

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Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Unicef Data Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Semantic Vocabularies 3

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Unicef Geosight Context

33 classes · 3 properties

JSON-LD

Unicef Rdm Context

39 classes · 1 properties

JSON-LD

Unicef Sdmx Context

39 classes · 5 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

UNICEF Data API Rules

6 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

UNICEF GeoSight API Schemas

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Examples 1

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Unicef Data Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Unicef Data Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Unicef Data Agentic Access

117 operations · 50 acting

117 operations · 50 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for UNICEF Data — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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Where this information came from

This is an independent, third-party profile of UNICEF Data, published by API Evangelist. We do not operate, host, resell, or support these APIs, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the company unless stated above. Everything here is built from publicly available information — the company's own site, developer portal, documentation, public repositories, and the specifications it publishes for public use. Nothing is obtained by breaching a system, defeating an access control, or using credentials.

The Kin Score and Agent Readiness rating are independently calculated assessments of a company's public API artifacts, scored against a published rubric. They are not certifications, endorsements, security assessments, or audits.

Corrections, re-scores, and removal are free — no partnership or purchase required, and you do not need to justify the request. A removed company is recorded as unrated, never scored zero for having asked. Acknowledgement within one business day; removal within two.

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