Dataset
Annual number of objects launched into space
owid.yearly-number-of-objects-launched-into-outer-space
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About
Annual number of satellites, probes, landers, crewed spacecrafts, and space station flight elements, launched into Earth orbit or beyond.
Cite as: United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data. “Annual number of objects launched into outer space – UNOOSA” [dataset]. United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, “Online Index of Objects Launched into Outer Space” [original data].
- Publisher
- Our World in Data
- Tier
- Official
- Covers
- 1957–2025
- Places
- Countries, regions and groups of the world
- Updated
- annual
- Last modified
- 2026-02-25
- Units
- objects
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
- Method
- https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/yearly-number-of-objects-launched-into-outer-space
Columns
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| entity | text | country, region or group |
| code | text | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3, OWID_ for OWID's own groups, empty for most regions |
| year | integer | |
| annual_launches | number | Annual number of objects launched into outer space (objects) |
Dimensions
| Name | Values |
|---|---|
| entity | |
| year |