International Entrepreneurship

Visit globalEDGE Insights by Country to learn more about the history, government, economy, and culture of almost every country in the world. Each country's page also provides external resources, trade statistics, rankings of corporations with headquarters in that country, and indices for a range of factors such as Ease of Doing Business and Global Competitiveness.

Worldometer is run by an international team of developers, researchers, and volunteers with the goal of making world statistics available in a thought-provoking and time-relevant format to a wide audience around the world.

Poverty, disease, hunger, climate change, war, existential risks, and inequality: The world faces many great and terrifying problems. It is these large problems that our work at Our World in Data focuses on. Our World in Data’s mission is to publish the “research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems”.

The OECD is at the heart of international co-operation. Our Member countries work with other countries, organizations, and stakeholders worldwide to address the pressing policy challenges of our time.
Together with governments, policy makers and citizens, we work on establishing evidence-based international standards and finding solutions to a range of social, economic, and environmental challenges. From improving economic performance and creating jobs to fostering strong education and fighting international tax evasion, we provide a unique forum and knowledge hub for data and analysis, exchange of experiences, best-practice sharing, and advice on public policies and international standard-setting. This page presents detailed statistics for countries including (but not limited to): Economic Projections, Education and Training, Environment, Finance, Industry, and Services, Labour, Monthly Economic Indicators, Price and Purchasing Power Parities, and Transport

A country risk rating measures the risk of non-payment by companies in a given country. This risk is due to conditions or events outside any company's control. Knowing a country's risk can help you make better decisions when trading internationally.

Guidance on starting a business in Europe

Article exploring doing business in Africa

Advanced search to the UNdata portal that allow users to search by keyword, select statistical areas, sources, and years.

International Monetary Fund (IMF) portal to data and statistical reports. Data includes International Financial Statistics (IFS), Balance of Payments (BOPS), Direction of Trade (DOTS), and more. This source also includes access to publications and reports.

The World Bank's DataBank "is an analysis and visualisation tool that contains collections of time series data on a variety of topics." You can create your own queries; generate tables, charts, and maps; and save, embed, and download data. Includes a large number of sources but not every data source by the World Bank. Includes flagship report: World Development Indicators

Access to all the World Bank's economic, social, population, and development data. The Data Catalog link lists all the available datasets. The By Country tool allows users to view and download data for each country by topic for multiple years. Includes all time series, microdata, and geospatial data.

Offers data on development assistance worldwide. The Geoquery tool allows use to retrieve conflict, aid, economic, health and other data and download in a variety of fomat.

Data about EU member countries, candidate countries, and the EFTA from the statistical office of the European Union. Statistics from 9 "themes" including general/regional, economy/finance, population/social conditions, industry/trade, agriculture/fisheries, external trade, transport, environment/energy, and science/technology.

The Internal Labour Organization's "central statistics database ... the primary source for cross-country statistics on the labour market. The database contains over 100 indicators covering more than 230 countries and economies."

"data from 1969 through 2020 for real (adjusted for inflation) gross domestic product (GDP), population, real exchange rates, and other variables for the 190 countries and 34 regions that are most important for U.S. agricultural trade."

US Census Bureau listing of international groups who compile data and statistics. Also lists national statistical agencies.

Reports, analysis, and data on key industry sectors, imports, exports, and trade data. Regional, US, and international data.

OECD portal to data on a variety of topics. Includes data for OECD member countries. Topics include agriculture, development, economy, education, energy, environment, government, health, technology, and jobs.

From AEA, "PWT offers national income accounts converted to international prices, allowing for meaningful international and historical comparisons."

The UN's Commodity Trade Statistics Database offers detailed imports and exports statistics reported by statistical authorities of close to 200 countries or areas. It includes annual trade statistics from 1962 to the most recent year.

The leading authority on health information/matters and health research within the United Nations system. Provides access to information, research and statistics on global health issues and topics.

"Allows users to access and retrieve information on trade and tariffs." Produced in collaboration with The World Bank, the UN, and others.

"The WTO Data portal contains statistical indicators related to WTO issues. Available time series cover merchandise trade and trade in services statistics, market access indicators (bound, applied & preferential tariffs), non-tariff information as well as other indicators."

Article from ExplodingTopics.com that strives to surface rapidly growing topics before they take off.

An web article about consumer trends for 2022

Inkit article about global consumer trends

Euromonitor article that summarizes the 2022 trends in Global consumer habits

A website full of links and infographics about different cultural habits and traditions