Data Dissemination

Tokelau’s international supply lines run across vast ocean distances. Now, for the first time, the atoll nation has trade numbers that trace those currents—showing what is imported, where it comes from, and how exposed Tokelau’s trade can be to shocks.

Food trade plays a vital role in daily life across the Pacific. Many island nations depend on imported food and beverages. This shapes what people eat, how healthy their diets are and how secure their food supply can be.

The Pacific Data Hub now hosts key fisheries stock assessment results for tuna and billfish species across the Pacific Ocean—a step forward for open data and fisheries science in the region.

Papua New Guinean data storyteller Fiona Umpa joined the Pacific Dataviz Challenge to stretch her skills. But she also told a powerful story on domestic violence, won international recognition, and got the boost needed to start her own business. Now, her journey is airing across 16 countries.

From tourism to traditional food production, the economic participation and livelihoods that sustain Cook Islands residents are highlighted in a new labour force report providing critical data to guide the nation’s decision-making.

When disability data are missing, so are the people they represent. A new guidebook sets out to change that, making sure everyone is counted and helping build disability-inclusive societies.

Solomon Islands television programme Tavuli News has interviewed Mr Crispin Laka, recipient of a ‘highly commended’ mention in the 2025 Pacific Dataviz Challenge.

How Palauan households earn, spend and eat: A survey release sheds light on a diet heavy in rice, employment-driven incomes, and challenges with health and inequality, among other themes.

From a conch shell that maps disappearing biodiversity, to an interactive game where players govern the Pacific in 2050: Pacific Dataviz Challenge participants have turned raw numbers into narratives that explore the depth of the region’s open data, its past, present and future.

Bringing a decade-long vision to life, PACComtrade—the Pacific Commodity Trade Database—has launched on the Pacific Data Hub, unlocking near-real-time access to structured, open and licensed trade data from participating countries, sourced directly from national customs systems.