|
Last revised: August, 2007
Online Sources of International Statistics
Scope: Many governments and international
organizations are putting their statistical data on the Internet. The
majority of the sources listed here are free-of-charge and accessible
to anyone with access to the World Wide Web. If you are a student, faculty
member, or staff person at the University of Maryland at College Park,
you may e-mail the subject area specialist at
gfoudy@umd.edu for more information.
- CIA World
Factbook
Annual publication of country profiles and statistics.
https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
- FEDSTATS Agencies Page
Links to US federal agencies represented on the Interagency Council
on Statistical Policy. http://www.fedstats.gov/agencies
- Infonation
United Nations site with statistical data on UN member states' geographies,
economies, populations, and social indicators.
http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/infonation/e_infonation.htm
- Inter-University Consortium
for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
"Access to the world's largest archive of computerized social science
data."
To arrange access at UM contact BSOS.
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/
- NationMaster.com
This free site compiles data from prominent international statistics sources like the CIA, UN and others and presents them graphically to allow easy comparisons of countries.
http://www.nationmaster.com/index.php
- OFFSTATS: Official Statistics on the Web
Browse by country, region, or topic.
http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/stats/offstats/
- Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Agricultural, development, economic, educational, energy, environmental,
financial, health, public sector, science and technology, and social
policy statistics.
http://www.oecd.org/statistics/
- Statistical
Resources on the Web
University of Michigan Document Center. Links to sites on Foreign Governments,
Military, Political, Economic, Demographic, and Foreign Trade and Economics
statistics, etc.
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stats.html
- United Nations
Scholars' Workstation
Yale University site "is a collection of texts, finding aids, data sets,
maps, and pointers to print and electronic information. Subject coverage
includes disarmament, economic and social development, environment,
human rights, international relations, international trade, peacekeeping,
and population and demography."
http://www.library.yale.edu/un/index.html
- United Nations
Statistics Division
Free access to selected portions of UN Statistical Publications such
as the Demographics Yearbook and Statistics and Indicators on the World's
Women.
http://www.un.org/Depts/unsd/statdiv.htm
- US Census Bureau
The Census Bureau site has links to international population data, foreign
trade statistics, and a commodity groupings database.
http://www.census.gov/
- US
State Department Background Information on Countries of the World
Economic, demographic, political, and historical profiles of countries
including Country Commercial Guides.
http://www.state.gov/www/regions/background_info_countries.html
- WDI: World Development Indicators Online
Provides direct access to more than 550 development indicators, with time series for 200 countries and 18 country groups from 1960, where data are available. Data export options in Excel or ASCII.
- SourceOECD
The online library of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Comprises 20 book collections by theme, containing all OECD monographs and reports, most OECD periodicals, and the OECD statistical databases.
- EIU Viewswire
EIU ViewsWire is a full-text country news daily that provides analysis and forecast information on worldwide politics, economics, business strategies & conditions and market trends in almost 200 countries.
- Bank for International
Settlements (BIS)
Publications which can be downloaded include the Annual Report, "Quarterly
Review: International Banking and Financial Market Developments," "BIS
Consolidated International Banking Statistics," and "Joint BIS-IMF-OECD-World
Bank Statistics on External Debt."
http://www.bis.org/publ/index.htm
- Bureau of Economic Analysis
International Accounts Data
Statistics on balances and payments, imports and exports, investment
position, foreign direct investment in the US, and US direct investment
abroad.
http://www.bea.gov/International/Index.htm
- Bureau of Labor Statistics
Import/Export Price Indexes
"The International Price Program produces Import Price Indexes (MPI)
and Export Price Indexes (XPI) containing data on changes in the prices
of nonmilitary goods and services traded between the U.S. and the rest
of the world."
http://www.bls.gov/mxp/home.htm
- Bureau of Transportation
Statistics
International transportation statistics including Latin American Transportation
Fact Sheets, International Air Passenger and Freight Statistics, and
International Travel and Tourism Statistics.
http://www.bts.gov/programs/international/
- Center for International
Development (CID) at Harvard University
Data depository which includes the Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC)
Database, Trade Openness Indicators, Sources of Slow Growth in African
Economies, Natural Resource Abundance and Economic Growth, plus geography,
education, agricultural and disease datasets (most in Excel format.)
http://www.cid.harvard.edu/ciddata/
- Export.gov
Access to the U.S. Commercial Service Market Research Library: Country Commercial Guides, Market Updates, Industry Overviews, Multilateral Development Bank Reports, Best Markets, Industry/Regional Reports, and agricultural goods market research reports.
http://www.export.gov/mrktresearch/index.asp
- Federal Reserve
Board
Current and historical data on foreign exchange rates.
http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/
- Foreign Labor Statistics
Bureau of Labor Statistics data series.
http://stats.bls.gov/fls/home.htm
- Foreign
Trade Statistics
US Census Bureau. Country-commodity trade data, trade balances with
partner countries, and monthly lists of top trading partners.
http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/foreign-trade/www/
- Global Distribution of Poverty
Subnational, spatially explicit, poverty data sets. These are available for selected proxy measures of poverty, at global and national scales.
http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/povmap/
- International
Labour Organisation (ILO) Labour Statistics
International labor statistics for many nations from 1988 -, including
an International Labour Migration database.
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/stat/
- International Monetary Fund
The most recent "World Economic Outlook," Staff Country Reports, Annual
Report, IMF Working Papers, Summary of Disbursements and Repayments,
and IMF Surveys.
http://www.imf.org/
- International Trade Administration
Office of Trade and Economic Analysis site has links to information
to the US Industry and Trade Outlook, US Foreign Trade Highlights, and
Global Data Links.
http://www.ita.doc.gov/
- Penn World Table
National accounts economic time series for many countries from the Center
for International Comparisons at the University of Pennsylvania.
http://pwt.econ.upenn.edu/
- TRAINS on the Internet
Online access to the database on trade control measures (tariff, para-tariff
and non-tariff measures) and on import flows (at Harmonized System 6-digit
level.)
http://r0.unctad.org/trains/tfori.htm
- United Nations
Development Programme (UNDP)
Human Development Report, Human Development Index, Gender-Related Development
Index, Gender Empowerment Measure, Trends in Economic Performance, Financial
Inflows and Outflows, Human Profile and Index, North-South Gaps, etc.
http://www.undp.org/publications/l
- UN Industrial Development
Organization (UNIDO)
Economic indicators by country including statistics on manufacturing.
http://www.unido.org/doc/50215.htmls
- USA Trade Center
Department of Commerce site links to Business Information Services for
the Newly Independent States (BISNIS), Central and East European Business
Information Center (CEEBIC), and Multilateral Development Bank Operations
(MDBO).
http://usatc.doc.gov/
- US International
Trade Commission Interactive Tariff and Trade DataWeb
Data sets from multilateral, country and regional sources going back
to 1989. Can be searched by HTS items, SIC, NAICS, and SITC codes. Access
is free, but users must create an account.
http://dataweb.usitc.gov/scripts/user_set.asp
- Virtual International
Business and Economic Sources (VIBES)
Site from UNC-Charlotte which "provides over 1,500 links to Internet
sources of international business and economic information that are
in English and available free of charge."
http://libweb.uncc.edu/ref-bus/vibehome.htm
- World Bank Development Data
Includes World Development Reports, quick reference tables, Gas and
Diesel Price Databank, Global Development Finance, and selected tables
from World Development Indicators.
http://www.worldbank.org/data/
- World
Trade Organization
Trade statistics site with up-to-date aggregate developments in world
trade.
http://www.wto.org/english/res_e/statis_e/statis_e.htm
- CIESIN: Center for International
Earth Science Information Network
Based at Columbia University, the site offers a wide range of data free
of charge for personal and noncommercial use.
http://www.ciesin.org/
- USDA Economic Research Service
Special Topic Briefing Rooms
Department of Agriculture site with links to country and regional information,
commodity market analysis, and other international agricultural data.
http://www.ers.usda.gov/briefing/
- Energy
Information Administration
Information about Total Primary Energy, Petroleum, Natural Gas, Coal,
Electricity, and Carbon Dioxide Emissions. Data may be searched by individual
country.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/international/contents.html
- FAO
Country Profiles and Mapping Information System
"The FAO Country Profiles and Mapping Information System is a pioneering
information retrieval tool which groups the organization's vast archive
of information on its global activities in agriculture and development
in a single area and catalogues it exclusively by country."
http://www.fao.org/countryprofiles/default.asp?lang=en
- FAOSTAT Statistics Database
Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN Contains over 1 million
time-series records covering international statistics on food production
and aid, trade, land use and irrigation, forest and fishery products,
population, agricultural machinery, and fertilizer and pesticides.
http://faostat.fao.org/
- Foreign Agricultural Service
Department of Agriculture site with statistical reports and "Hot Country
Pages."
http://www.fas.usda.gov/
- Global Change Data
Searchable site from the US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP)
and Global Change Data and Information System (GCDIS) links to data
on climate change from many US government agencies.
http://globalchange.gov/
- International
Atomic Energy Agency Data Center
Access to some free databases and annual reports.
http://www.iaea.org/DataCenter/index.html
- International
Energy Administration (IEA) Information Centre
Includes the "Monthly Electricity Survey," "Monthly Price Statistics,"
"Monthly Natural Gas Survey," "Monthly Oil Survey," "The World's Energy
in Charts and Graphs," and "IEA Energy Technology R&D Statistics.
http://www.iea.org/Textbase/subjectqueries/index.asp
- National
Climatic Data Center Online Climate Data
Climates of the World, Monthly Climatic Data for the World, and Extreme
Weather and Climate Events.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ol/climate/climatedata.html
- National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Marine Fisheries Service
World Swordfish Study, World Shrimp and Salmon Culture, and World Fishing
Fleets.
http://www.st.nmfs.gov/st1/index.html
- National Science
Foundation Science and Engineering Statistics
Full-text publications on international resources for science and technology.
http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/intres/start.htm
- Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Agricultural, energy, environmental, and science and technology statistics.
http://www.oecd.org/statistics/
- UN/ECE Timber
Database
Forest and Forest Industries Country Fact Sheets with overviews of forest
resources and forest products in Europe, North America and the former
USSR.
http://www.unece.org/trade/timber/mis/fp-stats.htm
- United Nations Environmental Programme
(UNEP)
Division of Early Warning and Assessment - North America.
http://grid2.cr.usgs.gov/
- UNEP-World Conservation Monitoring
Centre
Information on globally threatened animals and plants, including statistical
analyses of global forest conservation, biodiversity profiles, natural
capital indicators for OECD countries, and a protected areas database.
http://www.unep-wcmc.org/
- United Nations
Sustainable Development
Natural resource, social, economic, and institutional indicators.
http://www.un.org/esa/agenda21/natlinfo/
- US Geological Survey
Minerals information by country and international commodity statistics.
http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/
- World
Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE)
Full-text monthly reports on the most current USDA forecasts of U.S.
and world supply-use balances of major grains, soybeans and products,
and cotton.
http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/reports/waobr/wasde-bb/
- Worldwatch Institute
Economic and environmental information.
http://www.worldwatch.org/index.html
- World Wildlife Fund
Country profiles, Living Planet Reports , Global Annual Forest Reports
, plus information on climate change, fisheries, , wetlands and
threatened species.
http://www.panda.org/
- Amnesty International
Reports on international human rights violations and abuses.
http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/index.html
- Armed Conflict and
Intervention
George Mason University site with data on conflict regions, direct military
intervention, political interaction events, bilateral trade flows, memberships
in conventional inter-governmental organizations, forcibly dislocated
populations, and arms trade.
http://globalpolicy.gmu.edu/
- Center for Defense Information
Arms Trade Database has information about global arms trading.
http://www.cdi.org/
- Correlates of War Project
"This website is intended to both as a guide to published sources
drawn primarily from the Correlates of War data sets as well as various
non-COW datasets available through the internet. Towards that end, a
bibliography of articles and books by Correlates of War researchers
is provided along with a page of links to quantitative international
relations data."
http://www.umich.edu/~cowproj/
- Freedom House
Includes the reports: "Freedom in the World," "Nations in Transit," "Freedom of the Press," and "Countries at the Crossroads."
http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=1
- Human Rights Watch Reports
Includes the Human Rights Watch World Report, plus reports which can be searched by country, region, or theme.
http://hrw.org/doc/?t=pubs
- Inter-American Commission
on Human Rights
Annual reports (1970 to 2003), country reports, and Report on the Status
of Women in the Americas.
http://www.cidh.oas.org/commission.htm
- International Crisis Behavior Project
Data Archive
Downloadable system-level data on international crises and actor-level
data for each crisis.
http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/icb/
- Inter-Parliamentary
Union
Parline Database can be searched for electoral statistics on parliamentary
governments.
http://www.ipu.org/parline-e/parlinesearch.asp
- Minorities
at Risk
From the University of Maryland. Interactive database gives information
on "the status and conflicts of politically-active communal groups in
all countries with a current population of at least 500,000."
http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/mar/
- MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Database
Information on groups, cases, incidents, leaders and members.
http://www.tkb.org/Home.jsp
- Natural Resources
Defense Council (NRDC) Index of Nuclear Data
Tables and charts for Nuclear Stockpiles and Forces, and Nuclear Tests
Worldwide.
http://www.nrdc.org/nuclear/nudb/datainx.asp
- Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Public management statistics.
http://www.oecd.org/statistics/
- Political Database of the
Americas
"Provides documentary and statistical political information on Latin
America." Georgetown University site.
http://www.georgetown.edu/pdba/
- Polity IV Project
From the University of Maryland. "Coded annual information on regime and authority characteristics for all independent states (with greater than 500,000 total population) in the global state system. Covers the years 1800-2004.
"
http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/inscr/polity/index.htm
- Reporters
without Borders Press Freedom Rankings
"To compile this ranking, Reporters Without Borders asked journalists,
researchers, jurists and human rights activists to fill out a questionnaire
evaluating respect for press freedom in a particular country. A total
of 166 countries are included in the ranking (as against 139 last year).
The other countries were left out because of a lack of reliable, well-supported
data."
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=8247
- State Failure Task
Force: Internal Wars and Failures of Governance 1995-2004
University of Maryland site provides access to several data resources,
including the latest version of the State Failure Problem Set, 1955-2005
(four separate MS Excel files: Ethnic Wars, Revolutionary Wars, Genocides
and Politicides, and Adverse Regime Changes).
http://globalpolicy.gmu.edu/pitf/
- United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Statistical reports on refugees including data on asylum seeking and
the demographics of refugee populations.
http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/statistics
- US
State Department Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
Annual reports submitted to the US Congress on internationally recognized
individual, civil, political, and worker rights, as set forth in the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
http://www.state.gov/g/drl/hr/c1470.htm
- US
State Department: Reports on Terrorism
Individual country data plus statistics on international terrorist attacks
and casualties.
http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/crt/
- Worldwide
Refugee Information
"The World Refugee Survey reports on conditions for refugees and internally
displaced persons in 120 countries."
http://www.refugees.org/article.aspx?id=1175&rid=1178&subm=19&ssm=30&area=Investigate
- DOLPHN: Data Online for Population,
Health, and Nutrition
"An online statistical data resource containing selected current and
historical country-level demographic and health indicator data developed
and is maintained by the Population, Health and Nutrition Information
(PHNI) Project, of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)."
http://dolphn.aimglobalhealth.org/
- Ethnologue: Languages of
the World
"Catalogue of more than 6,700 languages spoken in 228 countries."
http://www.sil.org/ethnologue/
- HIV/AIDS Surveillance
Database
US Census Bureau site with information on the AIDS pandemic and on the
HIV seroprevalence (infection) in population groups in developing countries.
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/hivaidsd.html
- International
Data Base (IDB)
US Census Bureau's computerized data bank containing statistical tables
of demographic and socioeconomic data for all countries of the world.
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/
- International Organization for Migration
Online reports on migration and human trafficking issues.
http://www.iom.ch/
- National Center
for Education Statistics (NCES)
Links to tables on international educational comp
arisons.
http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/international/
- Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Education and Social Policy statistics.
http://www.oecd.org/statistics/
- Pan-American Health Organization
Country Health Profiles, and Core Health Data.
http://www.paho.org/
- Pew Global Attitudes Project
"The Pew Global Attitudes Project is a series of worldwide public opinion surveys that encompasses a broad array of subjects ranging from people's assessments of their own lives to their views about the current state of the world and important issues of the day. More than 150,000 interviews in 54 countries have been conducted as part of the project's work."
http://pewglobal.org/
- UNAIDS
HIV/AIDS information and data.
http://www.unaids.org/
- United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
Statistics on mortality, immunization, child malnutrition, adult literacy,
water supply, sanitation, iodized salt use, and net primary enrollments
and enrollments by gender, plus the full-text version of The State of
the World's Children, and The Progress of Nations.
http://www.unicef.org/
- United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Statistics
Seventeen selected tables from the UNESCO Statistical Yearbook, World
Education Indicators, and a database with other educational, cultural,
and scientific statistics and other selected publications which may
be downloaded.
http://unescostat.unesco.org/
- UN Office
for Drug Control and Crime Prevention
Crime statistics, research, and analysis.
http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/crime_monitoring_surveys.html
- UN Statistics
Division: Demographic, Social and Housing Statistics
Information on population, migration, women, disabilities, etc.
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/default.htm
- US
State Department: International Narcotics Control Strategy Reports
Includes individual reports on the 28 major drug producing and drug
transit countries. 1996 -.
http://www.state.gov/p/inl/rls/nrcrpt/
- WHOSIS: World Health Organization
Statistical Information System
Available data include health statistics, mortality statistics, and
the "Weekly Epidemiological Record."
http://www.who.int/whosis/
- World Values Survey
"The World Values Survey (WVS) is a global network of social scientists who have surveyed the basic values and beliefs of the publics of more than 80 societies, on all six inhabited continents."
http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/
- International
Statistical Agencies
US Census Bureau site with links to official foreign statistical agencies,
with notes on languages available at each site.
http://www.census.gov/main/www/stat_int.html
- National
Statistical Agencies and Offices
Penn State web site with an alphabetical country listing and a clickable
map.
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/socialsciences/international/statoffices.htm
- Yahoo! Government:
Countries
Alphabetical list of links to government web sites around the world.
http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/Countries/
- Andean
Community
Monthly trade indicators 1996 - ,Economic and Social Indicators 1993-,
and Intra and Extra-Andean Community Trade in Goods, 1990-. In Spanish.
http://www.comunidadandina.org/estadisticas.asp
- Asia-Pacific
Economic Cooperation (APEC)
Links to individual economy reports and economic indicators for its
twenty-one member nations.
http://www.apec.org/apec/publications/free_downloads.html
- Association of Southeast
Asian Nations (ASEAN) Statistics
Intra-ASEAN and extra-ASEAN statistics, communication and transportation
statistics, and macroeconomic indicators.
http://www.aseansec.org/13100.htm
- Caribbean
Community (CARICOM)
Trade statistics tables.
http://www.caricomstats.org/
- Common Market for Eastern and Southern
Africa (COMESA)
COMESA in Figures page has links to economic, trade, and population
statistics.
http://www.comesa.int/
- European Central Bank (ECB)
Data on the Euro, international reserves, retail interest rates, payment/cross
border collateral statistics, historical time series, statistical press
releases, and the ECB Monthly Bulletin.
http://www.ecb.int/
- EUROSTAT
Statistical Office of the European Communities.
http://europa.eu.int/en/comm/eurostat/serven/home.htm
- ECLAC:
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
Short-term indicators, foreign direct investment data, macroeconomic
indicators, and other economic and social statistics (Note: Spanish language site.)
http://www.eclac.cl/estadisticas/default.asp?idioma=IN
- Free Trade
Area of the Americas Hemispheric Database
Trade and tariff statistics available for downloading.
http://ftaa-hdb.iadb.org/chooser.asp?Idioma=Ing
- United Nations Economic
and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) Statistics
Division
Online publications include "Asia and Pacific in Figures."
http://www.unescap.org/stat/index.asp
- United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ECSWA) Statistics
Includes "Statistical Abstract of the ESCWA Region," "Bulletin on Vital
Statistics in the ESCWA Region," "National Accounts Studies of the ESCWA
Region," "External Trade Bulletin of the ESCWA Region," "Selected Social
Indicators on Quality of Life in the ESCWA Region", "Bulletin of Industrial
Statistics for the Arab Countries" and gender statistics.
http://css.escwa.org.lb/Abstract/index.asp
- United Nations Economic
Commission for Africa
Online publications include "Economic and Social Conditions in Southern
Africa" and "Economic Report on Africa."
http://www.uneca.org/index.htm
- United Nations Economic
Commission for Europe (ECE) Statistics Online
"Trends in Europe and North America" yearbook, "Robotics
Index," plus "Gender Statistics," "Human Settlement," and "Gas
Centre" databases.
http://www.unece.org/stats/stats_h.htm
return to top
|