Datasets & API

All impact data is freely available for research, journalism, and public interest use.

Available datasets

War Impact Rankings

Estimated consumer-price impact percentages for 10 categories across 5 war/shock scenarios and 10 core countries. Includes top-5 and bottom-5 ranked countries per category.

Version1.0
FormatJSON
LicenseCC BY 4.0
UpdatesUpdated with each new scenario release
GET /api/data/rankings
Download JSON

War & Shock Scenarios

Full scenario data including war metadata, date ranges, upstream commodity shocks, and complete country-level rankings for all 10 consumer categories.

Version1.0
FormatJSON
LicenseCC BY 4.0
UpdatesUpdated with each new scenario release
GET /api/data/wars
Download JSON

Country Coverage

List of all tracked countries with coverage status (full, partial, or experimental) and flag emoji identifiers.

Version1.0
FormatJSON
LicenseCC BY 4.0
UpdatesUpdated when new countries are added
GET /api/data/countries
Download JSON

Data dictionary

War Impact Rankings

FieldDescription
warWar/shock scenario identifier (e.g. ukraine-russia)
warNameHuman-readable scenario name
categoryConsumer category identifier (e.g. bread, fuel)
categoryLabelHuman-readable category name
countryCountry name
flagCountry flag emoji
impactPctEstimated consumer-price impact as a percentage
rankWhether entry is in top5 (most impacted) or bot5 (least impacted)

War & Shock Scenarios

FieldDescription
nameHuman-readable war/shock name
datesConflict date range
liveWhether the conflict is ongoing
shocksArray of upstream commodity shocks (factor + magnitude)
rankingsNested rankings keyed by category, each with top5 and bot5 arrays

Country Coverage

FieldDescription
idCountry identifier (matches country name)
nameCountry display name
flagCountry flag emoji
coverageCoverage tier: full, partial, or experimental

Usage notes

All endpoints return JSON with CORS headers enabled. Responses are cached for 24 hours at the CDN edge. No authentication is required.

Data is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). You are free to share and adapt the data for any purpose, including commercially, as long as you give appropriate credit.

Please cite as: howwarimpactsyou.com, War Impact Dataset v1.0, 2025.