Statistics

Gapminder

Friday, September 19th, 2008

http://www.gapminder.org

Gapminder is a non-profit venture promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels.

Vital Statistics on American Politics 2007-2008

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

http://www.aladin.wrlc.org/Z-WEB/Aladin?req=db&key=WRL06980GW

The Foreign and Military Policy section contains useful information on a variety of subjects, including treaties and agreements, military expenditures, and foreign aid and investment.

UNdata

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

http://data.un.org/

Easily searchable statistical database based on information compiled by the United Nations

United Nations Common Database

Monday, February 4th, 2008

http://unstats.un.org/unsd/cdb/cdb_help/cdb_quick_start.asp

Provides selected series from numerous specialized international data sources for all available countries and areas

OFFSTATS

Friday, November 9th, 2007

http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/stats/offstats/

Excellent compilation of official statistical sources 

GeoHive

Friday, April 27th, 2007

http://www.geohive.com/

Compilation of international statistics

Country Indicators for Foreign Policy

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

http://www.carleton.ca/cifp/

Cross-national data drawn from a variety of open sources providing at-a-glance global overviews, issue-based perspectives, and country performance measures including statistical data in the form of over one hundred performance indicators for 196 countries spanning fifteen years (1985 to 2000) for most indicators.

World Development Indicators

Wednesday, May 24th, 2006

World Development Indicators

Downloadable full text of the 2006 report and tables

EconStats: Global Economic Data

Thursday, July 21st, 2005

http://www.econstats.com/index_gl.htm

Compilations of economic statistics, including World Bank Development Data, IMF International Financial Statistics, and the IMF World Economic Outlook

OECD Factbook 2005

Wednesday, April 6th, 2005

http://snipurl.com/dujz

Extensive compiliation of statistical data for OECD countries.