Recorded refresh · 2026-08-14

The first recorded refresh: the 2024–2025 vintages arrive

All nine data domains and the USGS minerals were re-pulled together for the corpus's first recorded refresh. The World Bank's compilation has advanced most population, urbanisation and electricity-access series to 2025 and the GDP family to 2024: 1,324 observations are new vintages or first publications, 37 carry upstream revisions, and 2 were withdrawn. Every change resolves to its claim ID in the complete record.

Between two sealed corpus versions

2026-08-14 (c7387e6f1baf177a…)2026-08-14.2

New observations
1,324
Upstream revisions
37
Retired
2
Source changes
0
Nations touched
179

By domain

Counts of recorded changes, with each domain’s data vintage as it stood before and after the refresh. A domain absent here did not move.

DomainNewRevisedRetiredVintage
Economy7882822026-07-29 → 2026-08-14
Geography0902026-06-14 → 2026-08-14
Resources178002026-08-10 → 2026-08-14
Society358002026-07-29 → 2026-08-14

Noted in the record

  • This entry pays the corpus's known vintage drift: economy, society, geography and military were last pulled in June 2026 and the other five domains in August. All nine were re-pulled in one act; four moved — economy, society, geography and resources.
  • Two observations were withdrawn upstream: Bosnia and Herzegovina's 2024 inflation (its 2023 observation stands again), and Jordan's trade-openness series, whose latest published year moved back from 2024 to 2007 — a large retreat of the series' published span, recorded here as it stands.
  • Governance, health, education, technology and military were re-pulled with zero value changes: their publishers have not moved since the prior pulls. Absence of change is recorded, not assumed.
  • The USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries remain the 2026 edition; no mineral production figure or world total moved.
  • Of the 37 upstream revisions, most are recomputation-scale (relative shifts below one part in a million); the largest are Ghana's 2024 trade openness and the 2024 CO2-per-capita figures for Togo and Georgia.
  • Two first-ever observations: trade openness for Fiji (2024) and Sao Tome and Principe (2025).

The complete change record

Every one of the 1,363 recorded changes — claim IDs, prior and new values, origins — is the committed record itself: /ledger/0001.json. Each nation’s own changes are read on its dossier, under THE RECORD.

Issued as the Ledger Letter — read № 0001

The Ledger Letter

What changed in the world’s record — each recorded refresh as one letter: the sharpest movements, the counts, and the claim IDs to verify every line.

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