Find Statistics
Information can come numerically or graphically via these web sites.
CountryWatch and CountryWatch Forecast provide economic and five-year macroeconomic data on 191 to 194 countries.
International Financial Statistics by International Monetary Fund data for over 200 countries.
Databases by SIPRI: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. These datasets of 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.
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. They provide a list of websites from countries where statistics are gathered.
International Statistics by the Library at the University of Texas at Austin. A large list of websites that provide international statistics, duplicating many listed here.
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 Demographics by 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.
NationMaster by 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. There are lesson plans for Grades 3 to 12.
Office of Immigration by 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.
Research Guide on Statistics, World Statistics section by CSULB. A collection of major statistical sources are provided.
United Nations Cyberschoolbus by United Nations. This data is collected by the United Nations and available in English, Spanish, French, Russian, Chinese and Arabic. There are several data sets: One is InfoNation which allows comparisons of one to six countries by graphs. Country at a Glance is United Nation member countries data like economics, environment, health and technology in graphical format, plus news services in the countries' language and English. United Nations Statistical Division is 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.
UNData by United Nations covers all countries and areas and selected series from more than 30 specialized international data sources. The data can be accessed by topics or most popular.
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