Built by one person. Powered by open data, design, and curiosity.
Rankdat is a personal project by Damir Kotorić, a design engineer who got tired of digging through government portals, unreadable PDFs, and CSV files that look like crime scenes. I wanted a place where data makes sense — where the world feels clearer, not more confusing; where you don't need a PhD or three hours of your life to understand a simple trend. So I built Rankdat.
Why I built this
The internet is drowning in data, yet very little of it is actually usable. Public statistics are scattered across PDFs written for committees, dashboards overloaded with filters, and articles that cherry-pick a single number and call it insight. But people don't want noise — they want answers. Who sleeps the most? Who's thriving? Who's struggling? Is the world improving or not?
Rankdat exists to surface those answers cleanly, visually, and honestly.
What Rankdat does
I collect data from organisations like the OECD, WHO, and UN, as well as national statistics agencies, research papers, and anonymized device datasets. I clean it, cross-check sources, build clear visuals, and generate insights using AI. You can skim, explore, download, or use the charts however you like. The goal is simple: make the world easier to understand.
My philosophy
Data should be public, accessible, and unpretentious. Charts should clarify, not intimidate. Comparisons should be fair. Humor is allowed. I'm not positioning Rankdat as a neutral institution — just an honest one. Everything is transparent: sources, methods, assumptions. You can trace every dataset back to where it came from.
Who this is for
Rankdat is for anyone who wants to see the world more clearly — students, journalists, founders, policymakers, researchers, and the chronically curious. If you care about understanding how things are changing, this is for you.
This is a long-term project, built in public. Follow along on X.