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US Government Sources

• Bureau of Arms Control Reports
  Department of State. Reports from the Arms Control and Security Agency (ACDA) Reports, including World Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers (WMEAT).
• Bureau of Economic Analysis International Accounts Data
  Statistics on balance and payments, imports and exports, investment position, foreign direct investment in the US, and US direct investment abroad.
• Bureau of Labor Statistics International Price Indexes
  Includes times series, historical tables, and news releases.
• Bureau of Transportation Statistics
  International transportation statistics including Latin American Transportation Fact Sheets, International Air Passenger and Freight Statistics, and International Travel and Tourism Statistics.
• CIA World Factbook
  Annual publication of country profiles and statistics.
• Economic Research Service Special Topic Briefing Rooms
  Department of Agriculture site with links to country and regional information, commodity market analysis, and other international agricultural data.
• Energy Administration Information
  Data may be searched by individual countries.
• Federal Reserve Board
  Current and historical data on foreign exchange rates.
• FEDSTATS Agencies Page
  Links to federal agencies represented on the Interagency Council on Statistical Policy.
• Foreign Agricultural Service
  Department of Agriculture site with statistical reports and "Hot Country Pages."
• Foreign Labor Statistics
  Bureau of Labor Statistics data series.
• Foreign Trade Statistics
  US Census Bureau. Country-commodity trade data, trade balances with partner countries, and monthly lists of top trading partners.
• International Trade Administration
  Office of Trade and Economic Analysis site has links to information to the US Industry and Trade Outlook, US Foreign Trade Highlights, and Global Data Links.
• International Data Base (IDB)
  US Census Bureau's computerized data bank containing statistical tables of demographic, and socioeconomic data for all countries of the world.
• Library of Congress Country Studies
  Online, searchable access to the Library of Congress' Country Studies/Area Handbooks of 100 countries.
• National Center for Education Statistics
  Links to tables about international educational comparisons.
• National Science Foundation
  Full-text publications on international resources for science and technology.
• USA Trade Center
  Department of Commerce site links to Business Information Services for the Newly Independent States (BISNIS), Central and East European Business Information Center (CEEBIC), and (MDBO) Multilateral Development Bank Operations.
• US Census Bureau World Population Information
  Population profiles, estimates, and growth rates.
• US Geological Survey
  Minerals information by country and international commodity statistics.
• US International Trade Commission
  Data sets from multilateral, country and regional sources.
• US State Department Background Information on Countries of the World
  Demographic, political, and historical profiles of countries including Country Commercial Guides.

• Argentina: National Institute of Statistics and Census
  Site with statistics, statistical maps, and economic indicators.
• Australian Bureau of Statistics WWW Information Server
  Australia's official statistical organization.
• Bank of England
  Monetary and Financial Statistics Division site.
• Canadian Industry Statistics
  Canadian industrial data presented using tables and graphs of 230 Canadian manufacturing industries plus information on growth trends and public equity financing.
• Census of India
  Census data online and vital statistics information.
• China Statistical Information Net
  Statistics from the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics.
• Deutsche Bundesbank
  Central Bank of Germany site provides a wide range of economic statistics.
• Europa
  Information server for the European Union.
• European Central Bank
  Statistical press releases, Monthly Bulletin, Euro exchange rate information, payment/cross border collateral statistics, and Euro area statistics download section.
• EUROSTAT
  Statistical Office of the European Communities.
• French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE)
  The English version of the site offers limited access to data, for full access, go to the original French version.
• German Federal Statistical Office
  Includes links to the Federal Health Monitoring System and the Federal Institute for Population Research.
• Indian Department of Statistics
  National Accounts, Index of Industrial Production, National Survey of Industries, Consumer Price Index, Social Statistics, Vital Rates, Economic Census, and other social statistics.
• International Statistical Agencies
  US Census Bureau site with links to official foreign statistical agencies, with notes on languages available at each site.
• Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics
  Links to a wide range of statistical data.
• Japanese Statistics Bureau and Statistics Center
  Statistical compendia, economic and financial data, and population information.
• Mozambique: National Institute of Statistics
  Macro-economic indicators, Consumer Price Index, Statistics by Sector, 1997 Census Results, and the 1997 Demographic and Health Survey.
• National Institute of Statistics, Geography and Informatics of Mexico
  Provides geographic, demographic and economic data.
• National Statistical Agencies and Offices
  Penn State web site with an alphabetical country listing and a clickable map.
• Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
  Demographic, economic, social and environmental statistics.
• Russian Statistical Agency
  Links to Russia's Current Statistical Survey, and "Handbook Russia" for 1999 and 1998.
• Statistics Netherlands
  Statistics about the Dutch economy and society.
• Statistics South Africa
  Economic Indicators, Population Census, and other statistical reports.
• Turkey State Institute of Statistics
  Links to economic, financial, social, and women's indicators and statistics.
• United Kingdom Office for National Statistics
  Census information, educational information, and "United Kingdom in Figures."

• FAOSTAT Statistics Database
  Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN Contains over 1 million time-series records covering international statistics on food production and aid, trade, land use and irrigation, forest and fishery products, population, agricultural machinery, and fertilizer and pesticides.
• International Labour Organization (ILO)
  Child Labour statistics and selected full-text articles from the "Bulletin of Labour Statistics."
• International Monetary Fund (IMF)
  The most recent "World Economic Outlook," Staff Country Reports, Annual Report, IMF Working Papers, Summary of Disbursements and Repayments, and IMF Surveys.
• Infonation
  United Nations site with statistical data on UN member states' geographies, economies, populations, and social indicators.
• United Nations
  Links to UN news, statistics, agencies and programs, and information about member states and UN documents.
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
  Statistics on mortality, immunization, child malnutrition, adult literacy, water supply, sanitation, iodized salt use, and net primary enrollments and enrollments by gender, plus the full-text version of The State of the World's Children 1996.
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
  Human Development Report, Human Development Index, Gender-Related Development Index, and Gender Empowerment Measure.
• United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
  Full-text version of the Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific.
• UN Economic Commission for Europe
  Statistical Division site with "Trends in Europe and North America," "Timber Database," and "Gas Centre Database."
• United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP)
  Global Resource Information Database.
• UNESCO Statistics
  United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. Seventeen selected tables from the UNESCO Statistical Yearbook, World Education Indicators, and a database with other educational, cultural, and scientific statistics and other selected publications which may be downloaded from their site.
• UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
  Statistical reports on refugees including data on asylum seeking and the demographics of refugee populations.
• UN Statistics Division
  Free access to selected portions of UN Statistical Publications such as the Demographics Yearbook and Statistics and Indicators on the World's Women.
• World Health Organization (WHO) Statistical Information System
  Available data include health statistics, mortality statistics, and the "Weekly Epidemiological Record."
• World Bank Development Data
  Includes World Development Reports, quick reference tables, Gas and Diesel Price Databank, Global Development Finance, and selected tables from World Development Indicators 1999.
• World Trade Organization
  Trade statistics site with up-to-date aggregate developments in world trade.

• Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
  Links to individual economy reports and economic indicators for its twenty-one member nations.
• Bank for International Settlements
  Publications which can be downloaded include the Annual Report, "Quarterly Review: International Banking and Financial Market Developments," "BIS Consolidated International Banking Statistics," and "Joint BIS-IMF-OECD-World Bank Statistics on External Debt."
• Caribbean Community (CARICOM)
  Trade statistics tables.
• Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)
  COMESA in Figures page has links to economic, trade, and population statistics.
• Inter-American Development Bank
  Statistics and Quantitative Analysis Unit site has searchable databases and statistical tables, graphs, and reports.
• Inter-Governmental Consultations on Asylum, Refugee and Migration Policies in Europe, North America and Australia (IGC)
  Participating states' asylum data.
• International Coffee Organization
  Trade, production, and price statistics.
• Inter-Parliamentary Union
  Parline Database can be searched for electoral statistics on parliamentary governments.
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
  Agricultural, development, economic, educational, energy, environmental, financial, health, public sector, science and technology, and social policy statistics.

• Amnesty International
  Reports on international human rights violations and abuses.
• Center for Defense Information
  Arms Trade Database has information about global arms trading.
• Ethnologue: Languages of the World
  "Catalogue of more than 6,700 languages spoken in 228 countries."
• Peace Science Society
  Access to Correlates of War data sets.
• Population Reference Bureau
  Selected full-text excepts from their publications catalog.
• RAND Organization
  Publications page has some reports, research briefs, and issues papers available in full-text format.
• Worldwatch Institute
  Economic and environmental information.
• Worldwide Refugee Information
  "The World Refugee Survey reports on conditions for refugees and internally displaced persons in 120 countries."

• African Studies Resources
  Links to African web sites and "Facts on Africa."
• Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library
  Extensive set of links divided by region or country.
• CEESource
  Central and East European Legal, Political, Business, and Economics WWW Resources.
• CIESIN Center for International Earth Science Information Network
  Based at Columbia University, the site offers a wide range of data free of charge for personal and noncommercial use.
• Electronic Resource Collection
  University of Chicago site which houses the archived electronic documents from the US State Department website and US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.
• INCORE (Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity)
  Links to sources of information on individual countries including news sources and articles, NGOs and maps.
• Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
  "Access to the world's largest archive of computerized social science data."
• Penn World Table
  National accounts economic time series for many countries from the Center for International Comparisons at the University of Pennsylvania.
• Political Database of the Americas
  "Provides documentary and statistical political information on Latin America."
• Population Index on the Web
  "A searchable and browsable database containing 41,103 abstracts of demographic literature published in Population Index in the period 1986 - 1998."
• REENIC-Russian and East European Network Information Center
  Searchable site with a Country Directory.
• United Nations Scholars' Workstation
  Yale University site "is a collection of texts, finding aids, data sets, maps, and pointers to print and electronic information. Subject coverage includes disarmament, economic and social development, environment, human rights, international relations, international trade, peacekeeping, and population and demography."
• University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation
  Many links to sources on a wide range of topics.
• Virtual International Business and Economics Sources (VIBES)
  Site from UNC-Charlotte which "provides over 1,500 links to Internet sources of international business and economic information that are in English and available free of charge."
• WWW Virtual Library-Demography & Population Studies
  "172 links to demographic information facilities worldwide."

• Altavista Advanced Search
  In boolean searching, can narrow by domain (i.e. +"population statistics" and Ecuador and domain:edu)
• FEDSTATS Search Page
  Allows full-text or title and keyword searching of the entire site, or by individual agency.
• HotBot Advanced Search
  Searchable by language, domain, or country.
• HotBot Top Level Domains
  List of domains and country codes which can be used in Advance Search function.
• InfoPlease.com
  Online almanac with timely data on world events, statistics, geography, countries, and international relations.
• International Crime Statistics Link Guide
  Links to UN and national sources of crime statistics by country.
• MetaFind
  Search results can be sorted by domain.
• MSN Advanced Search
  Search by language, within domain, or search one of MSN's international sites in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, or the UK.
• NorthernLight Power Search
  Can limit search by source, language and country.
• PRAXIS Resources for Social and Economic Development
  Archival resources on international and comparative social and economic information.
• Snap.com Power Seach
  Allows searching by domain, country code, and language.
• Social Science Data on the Net
  University of California at San Diego site with a search engine and links to data, data archives, and searchable catalogs of data.
• Statistical Data Locators
  Nanyang Technological University site with links to sources of regional and national statistics.
• Statistical Resources on the Web
  University of Michigan Document Center. Links to sites on Foreign Governments, Military, Political, Economic, Demographic, and Foreign Trade and Economics statistics, etc.
• Yahoo! Government: Countries
  Alphabetical list of links to government web sites around the world.

Created by Gerri Foudy, for the Online World Conference 1999 Presentation "Wide, Wide World of Statistics" ©1999.
All rights reserved. Revised April 22 2000
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