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Data changelog

Every change to our datasets, newest first. This list is generated from the version history of the data files, so it shows what actually changed and when.

54 changes. Follow it by RSS.

11 Oct 2026

  • research1 file changed

    Add research/add-a-question: place questions in Nigeria survey waves

  • Development jobs54 files changed

    Refresh jobs snapshot from ReliefWeb

    54 countries

  • panel admin2 files changed

    Add panel admin (/study/admin): unified panel view, profile, member records, studies, ledger, payouts, quality, client preview, exports

10 Oct 2026

  • Leader portraits32 files changed

    Load 37 licence-verified leader portraits from Wikimedia Commons (PD, CC0, CC BY, CC BY-SA)

    32 countries

  • Constitutions7 files changed

    Edition caveat on superseded constitution texts; home map covers all 54 countries by data held

  • Polls1 file changed

    Poll results template, CSV downloads, RSS feeds and API access request form

  • Research permits and data protection7 files changed

    Review fixes for research-rules, statistics, education

    7 countries

  • Statistics offices and surveys1 file changed

    Review fixes for research-rules, statistics, education

    Uganda

  • Development jobs55 files changed

    Jobs hub: ReliefWeb RSS snapshot for 54 countries, /jobs and /jobs/[country]

    54 countries

  • Advisors and experts1 file changed

    Advisors: add Prof. Adedeji Julius Ogunleye, country expert Nigeria (consent via WhatsApp 10 Oct)

  • Exams and universities54 files changed

    Add /education hub: exam bodies, university regulators, accredited lists

    54 countries

  • Advisors and experts1 file changed

    Advisors: add Aksshat Goel, methods advisor (consent by email 10 Oct)

  • Statistics offices and surveys54 files changed

    Statistics hub: statistics offices, censuses and surveys for 54 countries

    54 countries

  • Research permits and data protection54 files changed

    Research rules hub: permits and data protection for 54 countries

    54 countries

  • Advisors and experts1 file changed

    Advisors and experts page with Mayowa Babalola (consent 10 Oct); align expert FAQ on party work

  • Minimum wage15 files changed

    Minimum wage and public holidays data: 15 priority countries from official sources

    15 countries

  • Public holidays15 files changed

    Minimum wage and public holidays data: 15 priority countries from official sources

    15 countries

  • Constitutions17 files changed

    Constitutions: PDFs for 29 more countries built from official text, uniform Download PDF button

    8 countries

  • Constitutions2 files changed

    Constitution text: Cameroon (National Assembly copy, 2008)

    Cameroon

  • Constitutions24 files changed

    Constitution texts from official sources: 12 more countries (Ghana as amended to 1996)

    12 countries

  • African economies4 files changed

    Economy pages: move Money in and out to /economy, add GDP, investors, trade and debt by creditor

  • Constitutions16 files changed

    Constitution texts from official sources: first 8 countries

    8 countries

  • Constitutions1 file changed

    Morocco: drop presidential age fact (hereditary head of state)

    Morocco

  • Constitutions14 files changed

    Constitution facts for 14 priority countries, each with article citation and quote

    14 countries

  • Constitutions2 files changed

    Add constitutions hub and country pages (Phase 2)

  • African economies1 file changed

    Add Money in and out pages for 54 African countries

  • Government budgets7 files changed

    Budgets: add Ghana, Kenya and South Africa, update Nigeria

    Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

  • Fuel prices1 file changed

    Add US dollar baseline to fuel prices: hub column and ranked chart, country USD equivalents and currency toggle

  • Fuel prices15 files changed

    Fuel prices data: 15 priority countries from official sources

    15 countries

  • Government budgets5 files changed

    Budgets pages: Nigeria federal budget 2023 to 2026 and /budgets hub

    Nigeria

  • Government directory9 files changed

    Cabinets final wave: Burundi, CAR, Comoros, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Sao Tome and Principe

    9 countries

  • Government directory6 files changed

    Cabinets wave 6: Libya, Somalia, South Sudan, Madagascar, Malawi, Guinea-Bissau

    Guinea-Bissau, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Somalia, South Sudan

  • Government directory6 files changed

    Cabinets: Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Chad, Guinea, Sudan (Kimi wave 5)

    Burkina Faso, Chad, Guinea, Mali, Niger, Sudan

  • Site facts1 file changed

    No hard-coded numbers: derive copy figures from data, facts.json and constants; add gate

  • Government directory7 files changed

    Cabinets: Congo, Gabon, Benin, Togo, Mauritania, Algeria; Tunisia full list (Kimi wave 4)

    7 countries

  • Government directory6 files changed

    Cabinets: Angola, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Namibia, Eswatini (Kimi wave 3)

    Angola, Eswatini, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, Zimbabwe

  • elections4 files changed

    Elections: switch calendar to dataset v2; sources moved to table footnotes

  • Government directory4 files changed

    Cabinets: Mauritius, Cabo Verde, Gambia, Tunisia (Kimi wave 2)

    Cabo Verde, Gambia, Mauritius, Tunisia

  • Government directory2 files changed

    Cabinets: Botswana and Seychelles (official sources, Kimi wave 1)

    Botswana, Seychelles

  • Government directory42 files changed

    Source wording: Compiled from CIA World Factbook list

    42 countries

  • Government directory23 files changed

    Directory expansion: QA record, portraits cleaned, expected-date and summary fixes, cabinets loader

    23 countries

  • Leader portraits13 files changed

    Directory expansion: QA record, portraits cleaned, expected-date and summary fixes, cabinets loader

    13 countries

  • Government directory38 files changed

    Directory expansion: 54 country profiles, leadership data, cabinets for priority countries, portraits and page code

    38 countries

  • Leader portraits15 files changed

    Directory expansion: 54 country profiles, leadership data, cabinets for priority countries, portraits and page code

    15 countries

  • Government directory108 files changed

    WIP: country profiles, collectors and page code

    54 countries

9 Oct 2026

  • Elections calendar5 files changed

    Add full Africa election calendar dataset 2024-2028 (54 countries + SADR, 121 rows)

  • elections4 files changed

    Add election calendar with calendar and list views

  • elections3 files changed

    Add election calendar research for 54 countries, unreviewed

  • elections1 file changed

    Publish verified government directory records for five countries

  • Government directory5 files changed

    Publish verified government directory records for five countries

    Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda

Dates are commit dates in UTC. A change here means the data files changed; pages and downloads carry the new values after the next deploy. See corrections for how we handle errors, and all datasets for current update dates.