Sources and licences
The facts on country and language pages come from open sources. Here is where they come from, which version, when they were downloaded and under what licence. The site does not call these services while you browse: we keep snapshots of the data.
Glottolog
The world’s languages, their families, countries and level of endangerment; the points on the languages map
- Version
- v5.3 (doi:10.5281/zenodo.15640174)
- Downloaded
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
Wikidata
Links to Wikipedia articles about languages
- Downloaded
- Licence
- CC0 1.0
World Bank, World Development Indicators
The share of people over 65, today and since 1960
- Downloaded
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
World Bank, Population Estimates and Projections
The projected share of people over 65 up to 2050
- Downloaded
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
United Nations (2026). Database on the Households and Living Arrangements of Older Persons 2026. UN DESA/POP/2026/DC/NO.16
How many people over 65 live alone
- Version
- 2026
- Downloaded
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0 IGO
United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2022). United Nations Database on the Older Persons in Collective Living Quarters 2022
How many people over 65 live in collective quarters (care homes, hospitals, hostels and the like)
- Version
- 2022
- Downloaded
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0 IGO
WHO, Global Health Observatory
Life expectancy at age 60
- Downloaded
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0 with WHO terms of use
UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage
Countries’ intangible cultural heritage: names, years, links
- Downloaded
- Licence
- Facts only: names, years of inscription and links
python-holidays
Countries’ public holidays
- Version
- 0.106
- Downloaded
- Licence
- MIT
Natural Earth
Country borders on the globe and land on the languages map
- Version
- world-atlas 2.0.2
- Licence
- Public domain
NASA Earth Observatory, Blue Marble: Next Generation (July 2004)
The satellite picture of the Earth on the globe
- Licence
- Public domain
Unicode CLDR
Country names in the site’s languages
- Version
- 48.0
- Licence
- Unicode License v3
Onest, Cormorant Garamond, EB Garamond
The site’s typefaces
- Licence
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
The shelf’s fabrics and patterns
The spines on the bookshelf are wrapped in photos of real Central Asian textiles from museum collections open to everyone (CC0). The tile on the bookends and the pattern inside the opened book come from them too.
Suzani, Bukhara or Shahrisabz, 1850–1899
- Museum number
- Cleveland Museum of Art, 1940.602
- Downloaded
- Licence
- CC0 1.0
Silk velvet ikat, Bukhara, 1875–1900
- Museum number
- Cleveland Museum of Art, 2006.153
- Downloaded
- Licence
- CC0 1.0
Suzani, Bukhara, early 19th century
- Museum number
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 21.114.3
- Downloaded
- Licence
- CC0 1.0
Ikat wall hanging (pardah), Bukhara, 1800–1850
- Museum number
- Cleveland Museum of Art, 2006.150
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- Licence
- CC0 1.0
Suzani with floral sprays, Shahrisabz, 1800–1850
- Museum number
- Cleveland Museum of Art, 2016.89
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- Licence
- CC0 1.0
Woman’s robe with crimson flowers, Khorezm (Karakalpakstan), late 19th century
- Museum number
- Cleveland Museum of Art, 2016.50
- Downloaded
- Licence
- CC0 1.0
Suzani, Ura-Tube, early 19th century
- Museum number
- Cleveland Museum of Art, 1916.1311
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- Licence
- CC0 1.0
Ikat wall hanging (pardah), Bukhara, 1850–1875
- Museum number
- Cleveland Museum of Art, 2006.152
- Downloaded
- Licence
- CC0 1.0
Suzani, Nurata, early 19th century
- Museum number
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 07.72
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- Licence
- CC0 1.0
Ikat woman’s robe (munisak), Bukhara, 1850–1875
- Museum number
- Cleveland Museum of Art, 2009.267
- Downloaded
- Licence
- CC0 1.0
Suzani, Bukhara, 18th century
- Museum number
- Cleveland Museum of Art, 1940.598
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- Licence
- CC0 1.0
Ikat fragment, Uzbekistan, 18th century
- Museum number
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 30.10.13
- Downloaded
- Licence
- CC0 1.0
Tile with an interlace of octagons, Bukhara or Samarkand, second half of the 14th century
- Museum number
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1972.88
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- Licence
- CC0 1.0
Frontispiece of Saʿdi’s Bustan, Herat, 1514
- Museum number
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1974.294.1
- Downloaded
- Licence
- CC0 1.0
Elders’ recordings
The project’s volunteers film the videos and write the subtitles. We publish a recording only with the elder’s written consent.
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