Data coverage and expansion roadmap

This page shows the gap between the currently published core and the maximum catalog scale. It is the planning surface for expanding the site from dozens to hundreds and thousands of indicators.

Current coverage

Active countries217
Active indicators109
Indicators in DB29490
Value rows736,986
Indicators with values109
Year range1960–2025

Scale-up window

  • Unpublished reserve of indicators already present in the DB: 29381
  • The next step is metadata import across the widest possible World Bank topic and indicator catalog.
  • After metadata import, prioritization should be based on search demand, relevance to country pages, and time-series depth.

Maximum expansion plan

  1. Layer 1: import the full World Bank topic catalog and indicator metadata into the local DB.
  2. Layer 2: activate 50–100 high-intent indicators across economy, population, inflation, health, education, and climate.
  3. Layer 3: roll out topic hubs, ranking pages, collections, and country+indicator pages for each new wave.
  4. Layer 4: grow the active surface to 300–500 indicators and strengthen long-tail SEO on region, income-group, and compare pages.
  5. Layer 5: connect batch OG-image generation, sitemap batching, and mass page export.

What is already implemented

  • Routes /topics/, /topic/{slug}/, and /data-coverage/ are wired into the router.
  • Topic storage and coverage statistics are added to repositories and DB schemas.
  • The next technical step is batch catalog sync and wave-based activation of new indicators.

Candidate topics for the next wave