International Statistics  

Sources are drawn from an excellent guide produced by the University Libraries of the University of Maryland.

• UNData 
  Keyword searchable database over over 50 million records from the United Nations and its agencies. Includes demographic, economic, education, health, environmental, agricultural, and technology indicators.

   

• CIA World Factbook 
  Annual publication of country profiles and statistics.

   

• FEDSTATS Agencies Page 
  Links to US federal agencies represented on the Interagency Council on Statistical Policy.

   

• Google Public Data Explorer 
  A Google Labs project--still in the development stage--"“makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate. As the charts and maps animate over time, the changes in the world become easier to understand.”

   

• 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.

   

• OFFSTATS: Official Statistics on the Web 
  Browse by country, region, or topic.

   

• 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.

   

• US Census Bureau 
  The Census Bureau site has links to international population data, foreign trade statistics, and a commodity groupings database.

   

• US State Department Background Notes for Countries of the World 
  Economic, demographic, political, and historical profiles of countries.