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.
Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.
API Evangelist profiles UNICEF Data the way a machine reads it — 39 machine-readable artifacts across 26 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 45.9/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). 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.
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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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 six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
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
RATE LIMITSFinOps 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.
Unicef Data Finops
FINOPSSemantic 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.
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
SPECTRALJSON 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
JSON SCHEMAUNICEF Reference Data Manager API Schemas
JSON SCHEMAExamples 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.
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.
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 2
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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