About Us

Development Data Library is an electronic library (e-library) that stores datasets and provides user-friendly features to upload, search, retrieve, comment on and rate datasets. The goal of this website is to create a central repository for development data and knowledge about India that will lower the transaction costs for researchers, civil society organizations, and others seeking data, enable wider dissemination of available data, and highlight priorities for new data collection to fully understand India and its varied constituent parts.

The e-library search facility will be available online and free to the public. Data may be uploaded or downloaded for free upon registration. We will make as much data as possible available for free, and provide links and information to available proprietary datasets as applicable.

This website is created and maintained by the Development Metrics (DM) Group at the Centre for Development Finance, IFMR with support from Google.org under the "Inform and Empower Initiative"