Stop Paying for Data: 50+ Free Datasets That Rival Paid Alternatives

A friend of mine spent $2,400/year on a financial data subscription. I showed him FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data) and SEC EDGAR. Same data. Free. He cancelled the subscription that afternoon. Here's my curated list of free datasets that compete with paid alternatives. Financial & Economic Data Free Source Replaces Saves FRED Bloomberg economic data $2K+/yr SEC EDGAR Capital IQ filings $5K+/yr Yahoo Finance API Refinitiv stock data $3K+/yr World Bank Data EIU country reports $1K+/yr Eurostat Statista EU data $600/yr IMF Data Moody's macro data $2K+/yr Health & Pharma Free Source What You Get OpenFDA Drug events, recalls, labels — 15M+ records ClinicalTrials.gov 450K+ clinical trials PubMed 36M+ biomedical papers WHO GHO Global health indicators CDC WONDER US mortality, natality data Geospatial & Satellite Free Source What You Get NASA EarthData Satellite imagery, climate Copernicus Sentinel satellite data OpenStreetMap Complete world map data USGS Earth Explorer Landsat imagery NLP