Statistics Iceland (Hagstofa Íslands) PxWeb API

Statistics Iceland (Hagstofa Íslands) PxWeb API

Statistics Iceland (Hagstofa Íslands) serves its statistics through a keyless PxWeb JSON API. The reuse-licence page says, in Icelandic: "efni á vef Hagstofu Íslands má endurnýta, afrita og deila áfram á hvaða sniði eða miðli sem er í hvaða tilgangi sem er svo lengi sem vísað er til Hagstofu Íslands sem höfundar í samræmi við afnotaleyfið Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International ( CC BY 4.0 )" (Signal Lab translation: "content on the Statistics Iceland website may be reused, copied and shared further in any format or medium, for any purpose, as long as Statistics Iceland is credited as the author, in accordance with the licence Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)").

Coverage

Top-level subject categories at the API root (for example Atvinnuvegir/Industries, Efnahagur/Economy, Íbúar/Population, Samfélag/Society, Umhverfi/Environment), queryable per table via the PxWeb API. Same national-statistics-agency pattern as statistics-denmark-statbank-api and ssb-statbank-api. Update cadence: Not stated.

Verdict

Iceland's statistics (population, economy, labour, society, environment) via the keyless PxWeb JSON API. Licensed CC BY 4.0: the reuse-licence page says, in Icelandic, "efni á vef Hagstofu Íslands má endurnýta, afrita og deila áfram á hvaða sniði eða miðli sem er í hvaða tilgangi sem er svo lengi sem vísað er til Hagstofu Íslands sem höfundar í samræmi við afnotaleyfið Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International ( CC BY 4.0 )" (Signal Lab translation: "content on the Statistics Iceland website may be reused, copied and shared further in any format or medium, for any purpose, as long as Statistics Iceland is credited as the author, in accordance with the licence Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)"). WARNING: the same page excludes third-party photographs from this licence: "Leyfið nær ekki til ljósmynda sem birtar eru á vefsíðunni þar sem þær eru eign þriðja aðila." (Signal Lab translation: "The licence does not apply to photographs published on the website, as they are the property of a third party.") — not relevant to the statistical data API itself. Rate limits: Not stated. Signal Lab links only.