WORLD Policy Analysis Center

What WORLD Policy Analysis Center does

WORLD Policy Analysis Center is a nonprofit research organization affiliated with the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health in Los Angeles. It produces comparative analyses of rights, laws, and policies across all 193 UN member states, covering education, health, adult and child labor, constitutional rights, discrimination, gender, marriage and family, aging, disability, migration, and related domains. Its core technology is a curated comparative policy database built using a rigorous double-coding methodology: frameworks are piloted in 20–30 countries and refined with 10–20 additional jurisdictions before full rollout, all coding is performed independently by two researchers and reconciled, and original-language source documents are reviewed by multilingual staff. Outputs include interactive global maps, downloadable datasets, a searchable policy repository, fact sheets, policy briefs, academic journal articles, government testimony, and open-access books published with UC Press.

The organization's customer base is horizontal and non-paying: government policymakers and legislators, academic researchers, civil society organizations and NGOs, and media organizations all access data and publications free of charge. Distribution is entirely open-access through the WORLD website, with embeddable maps, multilingual site versions (English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Simplified/Traditional Chinese, Russian), and active social channels on Twitter and Facebook. Because the organization does not commercialize its outputs, revenue is not disclosed and the entity is sustained via its UCLA affiliation and (undisclosed) institutional funding. Notable recent activity includes the October 2025 launch of five online repositories consolidating legislation from 193 countries in equality-related domains, a partnership with the Global Initiative on Ageing and Longevity on a draft global convention for older persons, and a 2026 expansion into wildfire air-quality policy research.

Name

WORLD Policy Analysis Center

Legal name

WORLD Policy Analysis Center

Website

https://worldpolicycenter.org

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

WORLD Policy Analysis Center is a UCLA-affiliated nonprofit research center that builds comparative databases of rights, laws, and policies across all 193 UN member states and distributes maps, datasets, and publications free of charge to policymakers, researchers, NGOs, and media.

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Product category

Comparative Policy Research

NAICS

Web Search Portals, Libraries, Archives, and Other Information Services (5192), International Affairs (92812), Legislative Bodies (92112)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Government, Public Policy & Regulatory Reference (Public Administration, Regulatory Guidance) (EDAGAGAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Public Health Strategy, Policy & Legislation (HLAJAMAA), Health Policy & Legislation Authorities (HLAJACAA), Public Health Data Governance, Privacy & Information Management (HLAJAMAI), Data Governance, Standards & Interoperability (ICD, HL7/FHIR, LOINC, SNOMED) (HLAJAJAM)

Keywords

• Comparative policy research
• Global policy databases
• Human rights analysis
• Policy mapping tools
• Academic policy publications

Headquarters

HQ city

Los Angeles

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

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Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

WORLD Policy Analysis Center produces and freely disseminates a comprehensive comparative database of rights, laws, and policies across all 193 UN member states in areas including education, health, labor, constitutional rights, discrimination, gender, childhood, aging, disability, and migration. Its core deliverables consist of interactive global maps, downloadable datasets, a searchable legislation database, and country-specific toolkits built using a systematic double-coding methodology applied to original-language legal sources.

Product overview

WORLD Policy Analysis Center operates as a comparative policy research organization that offers a unified platform of data tools and publications analyzing rights, laws, and policies across all 193 UN member states. The core product portfolio consists of Global Maps (interactive visualizations), a Data Download system, and a Policy Database covering 15+ policy topics including health, income, labor, education, gender, disability, and constitutional rights. These are complemented by publications including Fact Sheets, Policy Briefs, Reports, Academic Journal Articles, and Books (notably open-access titles on constitutional equality and gender gaps). Country-specific Toolkits provide in-depth national analysis. The platform also supports embedding functionality for external websites. All offerings are grounded in a rigorous double-coding methodology using primary legal sources.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• Launched five online repositories with thousands of pieces of legislation from 193 countries foundational to equality in education, work, family and care

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Global Initiative on Ageing and LongevitycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerWORLD collaborated with the Global Initiative on Ageing and Longevity to develop a discussion draft of a global convention on the rights of older persons, informing current global discussions on addressing the rights, needs, and wellbeing of older persons.

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Recent moves5 records

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Emerging players

• Human Rights Watch: International NGO that produces comparative country-based analysis on rights, discrimination, and equality — overlapping with WORLD's human rights and constitutional protections focus but delivered as advocacy reporting rather than a coded policy database.

Broad incumbents

• WHO Global Health Observatory: WHO's central health statistics repository offering comparable country-level data on health systems, policies, and outcomes — overlapping with WORLD's health policy and constitutional rights coverage.
• UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS): Official statistical source for cross-country education, science, culture, and communication indicators, with significant overlap to WORLD's education and child rights datasets.
• UNData: United Nations statistical portal aggregating comparable datasets across member states on demographics, labor, health, education, and human development indicators, sharing WORLD's global 193-country remit.
• International Labour Organization (ILO): UN agency curating global labor standards, conventions, and country-level labor law data, directly comparable to WORLD's coverage of adult labor, child labor, paid leave, and workplace discrimination.
• OECD: Intergovernmental organization publishing comparative policy data, indicators, and country reviews across the same broad domains (health, labor, education, gender) that WORLD covers, but at far greater scale and with a different institutional mandate.
• World Bank Open Data: Provides globally comparable development, health, labor, and education indicators across virtually all countries, directly overlapping with several of WORLD's policy domains and serving a similar policymaker and researcher audience.
• UNICEF Data: UN agency publishing comparable country-level data on child labor, child marriage, education, health, and child rights, materially overlapping with WORLD's childhood, education, and child labor coverage.

Direct peers

• International IDEA: Intergovernmental organization producing comparative data and indices on democracy, constitutions, gender quotas, and political participation — closely aligned with WORLD's constitutions, gender, and equal-rights domains.
• Our World in Data: Academic-affiliated, open-access platform publishing interactive charts and downloadable datasets on global development, health, education, gender, and rights — closely mirroring WORLD's free, comparative, academic-research-driven model.

Market position

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Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

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