How to Find Data and Statistics

Provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.

This site contains detailed country statistics, charts, and maps compiled from multiple sources.

Great tool for country comparisons across a huge range of topics, including crime statistics, agriculture, disasters and democracy.

Country socioeconomic and statistical data as well as special reports that vary by country.

Official statistics from individual countries.

Data and text on both the U.S. and other nations.

Searches across all of the UN's statistical databases and covers a wide range of topics.

National Statistical Offices/Agencies listed by country

Reports, Indices & Data by Country on Human Development (e.g. Health, Education, Income, Gender, Poverty, Sustainability and Inequality

Includes facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of independent states, some dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty.

Social and Economic statistics and special reports.

World Development Indicators (WDI) Online is the World Bank's compilation of data. Provides direct access to more than 800 development indicators for 208 countries with time series data from 1960 to the present.

Foreign aid from the United States: Data and Tools. Information gathered includes international food assistance programs, health surveys and “dollars to results” data for foreign aid to dozens of countries

Statistics from the European Commission

Produced by the World Bank, this database provides information on business regulations and their enforcement in many countries. Countries are ranked according to ease of doing business

Data collected by U.S. Commercial Service for promoting U.S. good abroad. Search for countries under Opportunities Tab; other resources include industry market reports, guides and statistics and events.

Focus on promoting import with country specific data on export trade and business environments

Export statistics including country/product trade data and state export data.

Excellent resource for international business information created by Michigan State University. Great place to start.

International Labour Office database on labor statistics.

Government site provides links to U.S. and foreign government statistical agencies.

Statistics provided by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe.

UNODC collects data on crime and the operation of criminal justice systems in order to make policy-relevant information and analysis available in a timely manner to the international community.