The world at a glance
The shade tells you what the data can be used for, not how many architects there are: the more emphatic the country, the more usable its list — countries barely tinted have only an estimate, those drawn in outline alone are undocumented. Click a country to open its record, a chart to filter the table.
Where the registered architects are
What can be downloaded, continent by continent
Number of countries per grade. Length compares continents with one another; click a segment to filter.
The extremes of density
Registered architects per 100,000 inhabitants — logarithmic scale, the eight densest and the eight sparsest.
Regime
Grade
Dataset catalogue
What actually downloads: nominal lists published by the bodies themselves, state open-data portals, official extracts. Files marked « harvested » were collected for verification but are not redistributed.
The umbrella bodies and what they claim
Aggregate figures circulate widely and are copied without a source. These are the ones we could trace back to a document.
Method, limits, licence
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