International Statistics

• 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.
• International Labour Organization (ILO)
  Child Labour statistics and selected full-text articles from the "Bulletin of Labour Statistics."
• International Monetary Fund (IMF)
  The most recent "World Economic Outlook," Staff Country Reports, Annual Report, IMF Working Papers, Summary of Disbursements and Repayments, and IMF Surveys.
• Infonation
  United Nations site with statistical data on UN member states' geographies, economies, populations, and social indicators.
• United Nations
  Links to UN news, statistics, agencies and programs, and information about member states and UN documents.
• 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 1996.
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
  Human Development Report, Human Development Index, Gender-Related Development Index, and Gender Empowerment Measure.
• United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
  Full-text version of the Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific.
• UN Economic Commission for Europe
  Statistical Division site with "Trends in Europe and North America," "Timber Database," and "Gas Centre Database."
• United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP)
  Global Resource Information Database.
• UNESCO Statistics
  United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. 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 from their site.
• UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
  Statistical reports on refugees including data on asylum seeking and the demographics of refugee populations.
• UN 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.
• World Health Organization (WHO) Statistical Information System
  Available data include health statistics, mortality statistics, and the "Weekly Epidemiological Record."
• 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 1999.
• World Trade Organization
  Trade statistics site with up-to-date aggregate developments in world trade.
• 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
• InfoPlease.com
  Online almanac with timely data on world events, statistics, geography, countries, and international relations.
  http://www.infoplease.com/world.html
• 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/
• Library of Congress Country Studies
  Online, searchable access to the Library of Congress' Country Studies/Area Handbooks of 100 countries.
  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html
• OFFSTATS: Official Statistics on the Web
  University of Auckland site with an extensive set of links to mostly official data from statistical offices, central banks and government departments and agencies.
  http://www.auckland.ac.nz/lbr/stats/offstats/OFFSTATSmain.htm
• 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
• Andean Community
  Monthly trade indicators, Economic and Social Indicators 1993-1998, and Intra and Extra-Andean Community Trade in Goods, 1990-1998.
  http://www.comunidadandina.org/ingles/statis.htm
• 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
• 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/
• Annual reports prepared by US embassies that present a comprehensive look at countries' commercial environments, using economic, political and market analysis.
  http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/business/com_guides/index.html
• 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: some information is in Spanish only.)
  http://www.eclac.cl/english/statistics/statistics.htm
• 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/
• International Labour Organisation (ILO) Labour Statistics
  International labor statistics for many nations from 1988 to 1997, 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/
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
  Human Development Report, Human Development Index, Gender-Related Development Index, Gender Empowerment Measure, Trends in Economic Peformance, Financial Inflows and Outflows, Human Profile and Index, North-South Gaps, etc.
  http://www.undp.org/dpa/publications/index.html
• 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: some information is in Spanish only.)
  http://www.eclac.cl/english/statistics/statistics.htm
• 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://www.escwa.org.lb/information/publications/division/sd.html
• 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
• UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
  Economic indicators by country including statistics on manufacturing.
  http://www.unido.org/doc/50215.htmls
• US State Department Country Reports on Economic Policy and Trade Practices
  Reports include key economic indicators, 1993 to 1999.
  http://www.state.gov/www/issues/economic/trade_reports/index.html
• 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 1999.
  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

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