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International Statistics

Comprehensive Statistics

  • 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, U.S. Bilateral Relations Fact Sheets
     
    Economic, demographic, political, and historical profiles of countries.

 

Acknowledgements

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