# AidData

> Publicly sourced profile assembled by Optimly, in the Optimly AI Brand Index. Last refreshed 2026-10-04.

- **Business Profile:** https://optimly.ai/brand/aiddata
- **Dataset:** https://optimly.ai/brand/aiddata.json
- **Markdown:** https://optimly.ai/brand/aiddata/llms.txt
- **Official website:** https://aiddata.org
- **Slug:** aiddata
- **Categories:** data-analytics-business-intelligence

## Overview

- **Tagline:** Granular data, rigorous methodologies, cutting-edge geospatial tools, specific expertise on China's global development finance, and a focus on policy-relevant, research-ready insights.
Source: Brand's website (https://aiddata.org) · 2026-10-04

- **Description:** AidData is a research and innovation lab that uses rigorous methods, cutting-edge tools, and granular data on international development to answer critical questions about who is doing what, where, for whom, and to what effect.
Source: Brand's website (https://aiddata.org) · 2026-10-04

## Offerings

- **Core capabilities:**
  - Research (policy notes
  - working papers)
  - data portals (China.AidData.org
  - China-Ports.AidData.org
  - GeoQuery.org)
  - training and professional education programs.
Source: Brand's website (https://aiddata.org) · 2026-10-04

- **Pricing:** Primarily grant-funded for research and open-access data; fee-based for professional training and specialized consulting services.
Source: Brand's website (https://aiddata.org) · 2026-10-04

## Audience

- **Target industry:** Policymakers, development agencies, researchers, academics, global South leaders, data-driven professionals.
Source: Brand's website (https://aiddata.org) · 2026-10-04

## Landscape

- **Competitors:**
  - Center for Global Development
  - Brookings Institution (Global Economy and Development program)
  - OECD Development Co-operation Directorate (DAC)
  - World Bank (Development Data Group)
Source: Brand's website (https://aiddata.org) · 2026-10-04

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