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Share of adults reporting having felt discriminated against

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How is this data described by its producer?

Proportion of population reporting having felt discriminated against, by grounds of discrimination, sex and disability (%)

Further information available at: https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/files/Metadata-16-0b-01.pdf

Share of adults reporting having felt discriminated against
Proportion of population reporting having felt discriminated against, by grounds of discrimination, sex and disability (%)
Source
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rightsprocessed by Our World in Data
Last updated
August 27, 2024
Next expected update
August 2026
Date range
2014–2023
Unit
%

Sources and processing

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights – Data from multiple sources

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) dataset is the primary collection of data tracking progress towards the SDG indicators, compiled from officially-recognized international sources.

Retrieved on
August 27, 2024
Citation
This is the citation of the original data obtained from the source, prior to any processing or adaptation by Our World in Data. To cite data downloaded from this page, please use the suggested citation given in Reuse This Work below.
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights via UN SDG Indicators Database (https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/dataportal), UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (accessed 2024). More information available at: https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/files/Metadata-16-0b-01.pdf.

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) dataset is the primary collection of data tracking progress towards the SDG indicators, compiled from officially-recognized international sources.

Retrieved on
August 27, 2024
Citation
This is the citation of the original data obtained from the source, prior to any processing or adaptation by Our World in Data. To cite data downloaded from this page, please use the suggested citation given in Reuse This Work below.
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights via UN SDG Indicators Database (https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/dataportal), UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (accessed 2024). More information available at: https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/files/Metadata-16-0b-01.pdf.

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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights – processed by Our World in Data

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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights – processed by Our World in Data. “Share of adults reporting having felt discriminated against” [dataset]. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, “Data from multiple sources” [original data]. Retrieved April 1, 2026 from https://archive.ourworldindata.org/20260304-094028/grapher/share-of-the-population-reporting-having-felt-discriminated-against.html (archived on March 4, 2026).

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Data URL (CSV format)
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-the-population-reporting-having-felt-discriminated-against.csv?v=1&csvType=full&useColumnShortNames=false
Metadata URL (JSON format)
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-the-population-reporting-having-felt-discriminated-against.metadata.json?v=1&csvType=full&useColumnShortNames=false

Code examples

Examples of how to load this data into different data analysis tools.

Excel / Google Sheets
=IMPORTDATA("https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-the-population-reporting-having-felt-discriminated-against.csv?v=1&csvType=full&useColumnShortNames=false")
Python with Pandas
import pandas as pd
import requests

# Fetch the data.
df = pd.read_csv("https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-the-population-reporting-having-felt-discriminated-against.csv?v=1&csvType=full&useColumnShortNames=false", storage_options = {'User-Agent': 'Our World In Data data fetch/1.0'})

# Fetch the metadata
metadata = requests.get("https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-the-population-reporting-having-felt-discriminated-against.metadata.json?v=1&csvType=full&useColumnShortNames=false").json()
R
library(jsonlite)

# Fetch the data
df <- read.csv("https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-the-population-reporting-having-felt-discriminated-against.csv?v=1&csvType=full&useColumnShortNames=false")

# Fetch the metadata
metadata <- fromJSON("https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-the-population-reporting-having-felt-discriminated-against.metadata.json?v=1&csvType=full&useColumnShortNames=false")
Stata
import delimited "https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-the-population-reporting-having-felt-discriminated-against.csv?v=1&csvType=full&useColumnShortNames=false", encoding("utf-8") clear