Provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.
This guide, presented by the Data & Information Services Center at University of Wisconsin, provides links to country statistical yearbooks or similar collections (census, "facts and figures," etc.) for 154 countries worldwide.
This site, maintained by Michigan State University, provides statistical data and other information (economic, historic, cultural, etc.) for 200+ countries.
This site provides access to a variety of information, including world development indicators, financial information, and climate data. Search results can be exported in different formats.
FAOSTAT provides free access to food and agriculture data for over 245 countries and territories and covers all FAO regional groupings
from 1961 to the most recent year available.
The United Nations Statistics Division, has developed a central repository of country profiles of statistical systems. The country profiles include, among others, a brief history of the country's statistical system, legal basis, the statistical programme and much more.
Provides a single point of entry for all United Nations statistical databases -- find stats on demographics, health, environmental indicators, economics, education, and more.
