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Lowy Asia Power Index

Rankings of state power across Asia, as JSON

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The Lowy Institute's Asia Power Index scores and ranks countries on their comprehensive power across the region, and these endpoints surface the underlying data as JSON. Fetch /data/{year}.json (2018 onward) for per-country scores, ranks and year-on-year trends. The data is the Lowy Institute's own research, exposed here through a community-written API guide.

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GET https://power.lowyinstitute.org/data/2023.json

[
  {
    "year": 2023,
    "score": 30.93,
    "rank": 6,
    "trend": 0.1132,
    "pretrend": 0.0037,
    "m": 0,
    "c": "AU"
  }
]
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://power.lowyinstitute.org/data/2023.json"
const res = await fetch("https://power.lowyinstitute.org/data/2023.json");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://power.lowyinstitute.org/data/2023.json")
print(res.json())

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Endpoints · 6HealthyFULL DOCS ↗
Monitored path responding — GET /data/2023.json558 mschecked 12h ago
GET/data/2023.jsonPROBED

Rankings of state power across Asia, as JSON

GET/data

Data — documented GET route.

GET/data/1

Data details by ID (example: 1).

GET/data?limit=10

Data — documented GET route.

GET/data/search?q=test

Search by query parameters.

GET/world.json

World Json — documented GET route.

Machine-readable spec

We probe a documented GET and expect 2xx JSON — full uptime and health score. Export includes every documented route below.

Response-shape history

Stable. No schema drift observed since monitoring began — the response shape has not changed under our checks.

Lowy Asia Power Index: common questions

Is Lowy Asia Power Index free to use?

Yes — Lowy Asia Power Index is a free open data API. Free tier: Free — limits not published. Whether the free tier allows commercial use is unclear — check the provider docs.

Does Lowy Asia Power Index need an API key?

No — Lowy Asia Power Index needs no API key or signup. You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (Unpublished).

Can I call Lowy Asia Power Index from the browser?

Not directly — Lowy Asia Power Index doesn't send browser-friendly CORS headers, so call it from a server or proxy instead. Copy the curl or Python snippet on this page to get started.

Is Lowy Asia Power Index up right now?

As of our last scheduled check, Lowy Asia Power Index is healthy with 100% uptime over 90 days and a 558 ms median response. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.