Find Statistics.
Information can come numerically or graphically, here are some books and web sites that will help in finding this type of data.
CountryWatch and CountryWatch Macroeconomic Forecast provide economic and five-year macroeconomic data on 191 to 194 countries.
Databases by SIPRI: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. These statistics concern military spending and export of arms.
Deadly Maps by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The first five maps reflect the worldwide proliferation of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and their missile delivery systems. The country maps show the major nuclear installations, both civilian and military, in each country.
Demographic Yearbook by the United Nations. This book contains demographic and social statistics, of which many can be found on the website United Nations Cyberschoolbus. We have this annual title back to 1949 which is not available at the website.
International Data Base (IDB)by United States Department of Census. The socio-economic and population statistics cover 227 countries and regions. The data years vary but can estimate or give projections from 1950 and as far ahead as 2050. Note it provides a list of websites from countries where statistics are gathered.
International Relations Data by Florida State University faculty member Paul R. Hensel. This website are meant to include the most useful data sources on processes of international conflict and cooperation, as well as data covering international economic, environmental, political, and social data. Note the updating of the page is lax and some of the links no longer work.
International Statistics by the Library at the University of Texas at Austin. A large list of websites that provide international statistics. There is slight duplication to this "Find Statistics". Note some are only available to UT students, check our list of CSULB statistical sources to see if we have access.
Internet Data Sources for Social Scientists by Cornell University links to data sets available from various universities and organizations. TIP: You might be required to register at the site to use their data.
Internet Demographicsby Marcus Zillman lists links for Internet demographics. Note there are no annotations, you must guess by title and click to see if the data you need is there.
NationMasterby Luke Metcalfe using sources like CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD lets you generate maps and graphs with these data sources. It is international and one can compare countries to each other. TIP: You can get lesson plans for Grades 3 to 12.
Office of Immigrationby the United States Department of Homeland Security provides statistical information that assess the effects of immigration in the United States. Items like flows of refugees, natural citizens and permanent citizens.
OFFSTATS: Official Statistics on the Web by University of Auckland, New Zealand Library. The website can be browsed by country, region or topic for statistical websites. The data found gives the official organization or government providing the information and the report or a news release on the statistic gathered.
Political Science Resources Political Methodology by University of Michigan Government Documents Librarian Grace York. These are data sets that need to be manipulated to get the data. Note this is the hard core statistical stuff. Also note, some are only available to University of Michigan students, check our list of CSULB statistical sources to see if we have access.
Research Guide on Statistics, World Statistics section by CSULB. A collection of major statistical sources are provided.
Statistical Resources on the Web: Foreign Government Data Sources by University of Michigan, Government Documents Librarian, Grace York. These are links to comprehensive sites of statistics or individual countries. Note some are only available to University of Michigan students, check our list of CSULB statistical sources to see if we have access.
United Nations Cyberschoolbus by United Nations. This data is collected by the United Nations and available in English, Spanish, French, Russian, Chinese and Arabic languages. There are several data sets: One is InfoNation which allows comparisons of one to six countries by graphs. Note not all the data is available for every country and sometimes the graphs look to much the same to be data from different countries; Country at a Glance is United Nation member countries data like economics, environment, health and technology in graphical format. It also provides links to news services in the countries' language and english or searched language; and then the United Nations Statistical Division numerical data only. These statistics include demographics, social, housing, energy, environment, industrial, budgets, trade and other data links to statistics. More data is covered in the UNSTATS Common Database listed below.
UNSTATS Common Database by United Nations. UNSTATS covers all countries and areas and selected series from more than 30 specialized international data sources. The data can be accessed alphabetically, by sources, or by topics. Among the main data sources are the UN Statistics Division's own databases in merchandise trade, national accounts, demography and population, energy, status of women and industrial commodities production; and statistics from the Population Division, the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs' Project Link, FAO, ILO, IMF, ITU, OECD, UNESCO, WHO, WIPO, World Bank and World Tourism Organization, among others.
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