We provide the data on information distance from our recent paper ‘Information distance: Conceptual development and empirical tests of a novel measure of cross-national distance’ on cross-national distance here. We have computed information distance scores for many country pairs and years (more than 10,000 annual distances from 2008 to 2022), and provide them in the attached file. The data can be used for research purposes given proper disclosure of the data source including reference to the research publication available here. We will provide more data and updated functionality here. We are grateful to Thomas Strahlhofer, who provided excellent research assistance for compiling the distance dataset.