---
title: "Technology - internet adoption, mobile subscriptions"
method: GET
path: "/api/v1/owid/technology"
tags: ["Economics"]
---

# Technology - internet adoption, mobile subscriptions

`GET /api/v1/owid/technology`

Technology adoption indicators curated by Our World in Data. Slugs include `number-of-internet-users` and `mobile-cellular-subscriptions-per-100-people`. Published under CC BY 4.0 with dual attribution naming the ITU as primary source.

## Query parameters

- `slug` string — OWID chart slug (see `/owid/catalog?theme=technology`).
- `country` string, nullable — Country filter (ISO3 or multi).
- `start_year` integer, nullable — Inclusive start year.
- `end_year` integer, nullable — Inclusive end year.

## Response `200`

Country-year observations for the technology slug with CC BY 4.0 dual attribution.

- EnvelopeOwidTechnologyPayload
  - `data` OwidTechnologyPayload, required — Technology payload - internet use, mobile subscriptions.
    - `slug` string, required — Canonical OWID slug after alias resolution.
    - `theme` string, required — Sugra theme grouping (health, climate-energy, poverty-inequality, democracy-rights, growth-population, food-security, technology).
    - `value_column` string, nullable — Upstream CSV value column name (e.g. `Life expectancy`, `GDP per capita`).
    - `unit` string, nullable — Unit of measure from the OWID metadata.
    - `short_unit` string, nullable — Compact unit symbol from metadata.
    - `country` string, nullable — Country filter as supplied by the caller. None = cross-country panel.
    - `start_year` integer, nullable — Inclusive start year actually applied (may be the internal default when caller passes None).
    - `end_year` integer, nullable — Inclusive end year actually applied.
    - `observations` OwidObservation[], required — Long-form observation rows, each describing one country-year cell.
      - `country` string, required — Entity name as published by OWID (e.g. `United States`, `World`, `High-income countries`).
      - `code` string, nullable — ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code where applicable. OWID aggregates use custom codes (OWID_WRL, OWID_KOS) or leave the field blank.
      - `year` integer, required — Observation year (integer). Yearly cadence for almost every OWID indicator.
      - `value` union — Observation value. Numeric when parseable, empty string when absent upstream.
        - number
        - integer
        - string
    - `count` integer, required — Number of observations in this payload.
    - `metadata` OwidIndicatorMeta, required — Slug-level metadata pulled from `{slug}.metadata.json`.
      - `slug` string, required — Canonical OWID Grapher slug (alias-resolved on Sugra side).
      - `title` string, nullable — Short chart title as displayed on ourworldindata.org.
      - `subtitle` string, nullable — Short indicator description.
      - `owid_variable_id` integer, nullable — Numeric OWID variable id (enables direct /v1/indicators/{id}.data.json access).
      - `short_name` string, nullable — Machine-friendly column name (e.g. `life_expectancy_0`).
      - `unit` string, nullable — Unit of measure as published (e.g. `years`, `% of GDP`, `tonnes per person`).
      - `short_unit` string, nullable — Compact unit symbol (e.g. `%`, `t`, `kg`).
      - `type` string, nullable — OWID column type - usually Numeric.
      - `timespan` string, nullable — Indicator timespan, upstream-reported (e.g. `1543-2023`).
      - `last_updated` string, nullable — Upstream lastUpdated (YYYY-MM-DD).
      - `last_updated_iso` string, nullable — lastUpdated normalised to ISO 8601 UTC (YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ).
      - `next_update` string, nullable — Expected next refresh date (YYYY-MM-DD).
      - `original_chart_url` string, nullable — URL of the OWID chart page for this indicator.
      - `full_metadata_url` string, nullable — Upstream full metadata JSON at api.ourworldindata.org.
    - `attribution` OwidAttribution, required — CC BY 4.0 dual-attribution block returned in every OWID envelope.
      - `licence` string — Licence of the OWID-curated data.
      - `attribution` string, required — Ready-to-render attribution string naming Our World in Data and the original upstream source.
      - `source_name` string, nullable — Short name of the primary upstream source (e.g. 'UN WPP (2024)', 'World Bank', 'V-Dem (2025)').
      - `citation_short` string, nullable — OWID-provided short citation.
      - `citation_long` string, nullable — OWID-provided long citation suitable for academic use.
  - `meta` SugraMeta, required — Metadata attached to every /api/v1/* response envelope.
    - `endpoint` string, required — Requested endpoint path.
    - `data_time` string, required — ISO 8601 UTC timestamp of the source data, not of the request.
    - `response_time` string, required — ISO 8601 UTC timestamp when this response was produced.
    - `provider` string, required — API name and version.
    - `source` string, nullable — Identifier of the primary upstream source used for this response.
    - `attribution` string, nullable — Human-readable attribution mandated by an upstream source (e.g. a securities regulator or self-regulatory organization). Present only on responses whose source requires the owner and source to be clearly identified. Do not remove or alter it when using the response.
    - `fallback_used` boolean, nullable — True when the primary source failed and a fallback produced the data.
    - `fallback_chain` string[], nullable — Ordered list of sources attempted, in the order they were tried.
    - `cached` boolean, nullable — True when this response was served from the internal cache.
    - `stale` boolean, nullable — True when the cached response was returned after the upstream rate-limited or errored. Clients can use this to detect degraded data.

## Other responses

- `401` — Missing or invalid `x-api-key` header.
- `422` — Validation Error
- `429` — Daily rate limit exceeded. Check `X-RateLimit-Reset` for the next window.
- `503` — Upstream source is temporarily unavailable. Retry after a short delay.

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