Data.gov.uk

data.gov.uk

data.gov.uk homepage screenshot, 2022
Type of site	UK Government website
Available in	British English
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Area served	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Owner	UK Government
Industry	government data
URL	data.gov.uk
Commercial	no
Registration	optional
Launched	30 September 2009; 14 years ago (2009-09-30)
Current status	active
Content licence	Open Government Licence
Written in	repository software: CKAN API: REST

data.gov.uk is a UK Government project to make available non-personal UK government data as open data. It was launched as closed beta in 30 September 2009; 14 years ago (2009-09-30), and publicly launched in January 2010; 14 years ago (2010-01). As of February 2015, it contained over 19,343 datasets, rising to over 40,000 in 2017, and more than 47,000 by 2023.^[1] data.gov.uk is listed in the Registry of Research Data Repositories re3data.org.^[1]