Country Research

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."

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.

List of UN data and statistical sources compiled in the United Nations Research guide. Includes information on UNdata, Comtrade, and more.

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.

Information about national statistical systems. Locate national statistics pages, histories of the country's statistical system, legal basis, other producers of statistics, calendars, etc.

Research guide that offers links to statistical yearbooks, some available online, for 150 countries. Potential source for subnational, or city level, statistics.

Reports, news, and data, arranged by country.

Links to statistics on individual countries including topics like health profiles, disease and mortality, nutrition, risk factors, etc. Profiles and links to data.

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.

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.