Contents:
General World Statistics
| World Regional
| Specialized Statistics: Agriculture, Climate, Environment & Food
| Business, Economy, Industry, & Labor
| Census, Demographics, & Population
| Children & Education
| Communications, Energy & Transportation
| Criminal Justice
| Defense & Military
| Health & Safety
| Internet Statistics
| Religion
| Science & Technology
| PSU Libraries' Related Pages
World: General
- Countries and Regions (World Bank)
- City Mayors: Urban Statistics [various rankings of world cities]
- Country Statistics and Reports (Population Reference Bureau)
- Data on the Net (3stages.org)
- Globalis [UN statistics arranged thematically and graphically]
- Government Information on the Internet: A Primer: Statistics (IFLA)
- GlobalEDGE (MSU)
- Guide to Public Opinion Poll Web Sites: Polling Data from Around the World (Gary Thompson and Sean Conley, C&RL; News, October 2006,Vol. 67, No. 9)
- Human Development Reports
- InfoNation Cyberschoolbus (UN Statistics Division)
- International Financial Statistics (Penn State Users Only)
- Internet Crossroads in Social Sciences Data (UWisc)
- LexisNexis Statistical (Penn State Users Only)
- MBS (Monthly Bulletin of Statistics) Online [international statistics] (Penn State Users Only)
- MIT Center for International Studies: Foreign Policy Index [includes stats on environment, drug trade, health, immigration, defense spending, peacekeeing operations, nuclear weapons, terrorism, and selected countries]
- National Statistical Agencies and Offices (PSU)
- Nationmaster.com ("a handy way to graphically compare nations")
- OFFSTATS: Official Statistics on the Web (University of Auckland Library)
- Pew Global Attitudes Project ["worldwide public opinion surveys that encompasses a broad array of subjects ranging from people's assessments of their own lives to their views about the current state of the world and important issues of the day. More than 100,000 interviews in 50 countries have been conducted as part of the project's work." (from website, 11/17/2006)]
- Psephos: Election Archive (Adam Carr)
- Statistical Agencies (International) [national statistics agencies by country] (U.S. Bureau of Census)
- Statistical Resources on the Web (UMich)
- UNSTATS ["selected series from numerous specialized international data sources for all available countries and areas"] (Penn State Users Only)
- World Bank
- World Bank: An Online Atlas of the Millennium Development Goals [with statistics on the status of each goal, by country]
- World Bank e-Library (Penn State Users Only)
- World Development Indicators (Penn State Users Only)
- World Development Report (World Bank)
- World Factbook (CIA)
- World Gazetteer
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Statistics by World Region
Africa:
Asia:
- Asia-Pacific in Figures (UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific)
- Asian Development Bank: Database and Development Indicators
- Database Statistics of the CIS: Commonwealth of Independent States (Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine)
- Digital South Asia Library (UChicago)
Europe:
- European Central Bank Statistics
- European Commission: Enterprise and Industry: Industry Sectors
- European Commission: Public Opinion
- Eurostat (European Commission)
- Histpop: The Online Historical Population Reports [online access to the complete British population reports for Britain and Ireland from 1801 to 1937]
- Statistics for Europe and North America (United Nations Commission for Europe)
- Trends in Europe and North America: The Statistical Yearbook of the Economic Commission for Europe [trends in population, families and households, education, employment, economy, health, housing, transport and tourism, energy, environment, communication, participation, and crime and safety]
Latin America:
Near/Middle East:
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Agriculture, Climate, Environment, & Food
- Agricultural Outlook: Statistical Indicators [U.S. and World] (USDA)
- Center for International Earth Science Information Network (Columbia)
- EarthTrends Environmental Information (World Resources Institute)
- Economics of Tobacco Control (World Bank)
- Famine Early Warning Network System (USAID)
- FAO: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- Foreign Agricultural Trade of the United States (FATUS) (USDA)
- GEO 2000: Global Environment Outlook (UN Environment Programme)
- Geohive Global Statistics
- Global Change Master Directory: a Directory of Earth Sciences Data and Services
- Global Information and Early Warning System - on food and agriculture [GIEWS] (fao.org)
- Main Environmental Indicators (United Nations)
- Major World Crop Areas and Climatic Profiles (USDA)
- Market and Trade Data (USDA)
- National Climate Data Center
- National Geophysical Data Center [includes earth observations from space, space weather and solar events, bathymetry and global relief, marine geology and geophysics, natural hazards, and geomagnetic data and models] (NOAA)
- United Nations Environment Programme: GEO Data Portal
- United States Department of Agriculture Economics, Statistics, and Market Information System: Trade and International
- World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates Report (USDA)
- World Bank: Topics in Development [agriculture, children & youth, education, health, HIV/AIDS, poverty, private sector, public sector, social development, sustainable development, transportation, etc.]
- World Food Programme in Statistics
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Business & Trade, Economy & Finance, Industry & Labor
- CorporateInformation.com [Provided by Wright Investors' Service, this site provides detailed statistical analysis of corporations in U.S. and many other countries (31,000 reports, per website, 11/10/2006) as well as links to corporate information for U.S. states; free "snapshot" reports provide basic information; other detailed analysis available for purchase and to subscribers]
- Doing Business (World Bank)
- EarthTrends Environmental Information (World Resources Institute)
- Economic Report of the President
- Enterprise Surveys (World Bank)
- Export.gov: Trade Data & Analysis
- ExportBureau.com: Global Trade and Industry Statistics
- FDI.net: Foreign Direct Investment ["...web portal that offers free, on-demand country analysis and information on all things related to foreign direct investment in 175 countries." (website, 5/4/2007)]
- Foreign Labor Trends (U.S. Dept. of Labor)
- Foreign Trade Statistics (U.S. Census Bureau)
- FreeLunch.com [a free service, with registration, provided by Moody's Economy.com; "databases contain more than 165 million economic, financial, and demographic time series covering more than 180 countries and their sub-regions." (from website, 1/23/2007)]
- GDF Online: Global Development Finance (Penn State Users Only)
- Geohive Global Statistics
- Global Business Cycles Indicators (The Conference Board)
- Import/Export Prices Bureau of Labor Statistics
- International Economic Trends (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)
- International Financial Statistics (Penn State Users Only)
- International Labour Organization: Statistics
- International Trade Statistics (World Trade Organization)
- LABORSTA Internet (ILO)
- LexisNexis Statistical (Penn State Users Only)
- Mutual Fund Fact Book (Investment Company Institute)
- Oxresearch (Penn State Users Only)
- Penn World Tables ["provides purchasing power parity and national income accounts converted to international prices for 179 countries for some or all of the years 1950-2000." (description from website, 1/23/07)] (Alan Heston, Robert Summers and Bettina Aten, UPENN)
- SourceOECD (Penn State Users Only)
- Special Issues: List of List (formerly Gary Price...)
- TableBase (Penn State Users Only)
- UN Comtrade: United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database
- UNCTAD: United Nations Conference on Trade and Development [international trade, investment and development, for individual countries and for economic and trade groupings; commodity price statistics; millenium indicators]
- Women and the Economy
- World Bank
- World Bank: Topics in Development [agriculture, children & youth, education, health, HIV/AIDS, poverty, private sector, public sector, social development, sustainable development, transportation, etc.]
- World Economic and Social Survey (United Nations)
- World Employment Report 2004-05
- World Investment Report 2006: FDI from Developing and Transition Economies: Implications for Development (UNCTAD)
- World Steel in Figures [International Iron and Steel Institute]
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Census, Demographics, & Population
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Children & Education
- Child Labour Statistics (ILO)
- Childstats.gov: International Comparisons (Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics)
- Digest of Education Statistics (National Center for Educational Statistics)
- EarthTrends Environmental Information (World Resources Institute)
- Economic Benefits of International Education to the United States of America: A Statistical Analysis (nafsa.org)
- EDSTATS: Global Country Data (World Bank)
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD): Statistics
- Progress of Nations 2000 (UNICEF)
- Projection of Education Statistics to 2013 (Nat'l Center for Educational Statistics)
- Science and Engineering Education [publications, data, and analyses about the nations's science and engineering resources] (National Science Foundation, Division of Science Resources Statistics)
- Science and Engineering Indicators [international] (NSF)
- State of the World's Children 2005 (UNICEF)
- UNESCO Institute for Statistics
- UNICEF Statistics [by country, core indicators, and multiple indicators]
- UNICEF Statistics: End Decade Databases
- World Bank: Topics in Development [agriculture, children & youth, education, health, HIV/AIDS, poverty, private sector, public sector, social development, sustainable development, transportation, etc.]
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Communications, Energy, & Transportation
- American Petroleum Institute: Industry Statistics
- EarthTrends Environmental Information (World Resources Institute)
- Energy Information Administration: International (U.S. Dept. of Energy)
- Energy Information Agency [international statistics on production, consumption, import/export, prices, costs, and reserves of petroleum, natural gas, electricity, coal, total energy; energy analysis and environmental overview by country/region; carbon dioxide emissions; international energy outlook; population and GDP] (U.S. Dept. of Energy)
- International Energy Agency Statistics [energy balances, energy indicators, product data, publications and graphs for 26 member countries]
- International Telecommunications Union: ICT Statistics
- Maritime Data and Statistics (U.S. Dept. of Transportation, Maritime Administration)
- Power Reactor Information System (IAEA)
- UNESCO Institute for Statistics
- World Bank: Topics in Development
- WorldOil.com: Statistics and Tables
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Criminal Justice
Defense & Military
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Health & Safety
Internet
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Religion
- Adherents.com ("membership/adherent statistics and congregation statistics for over 4,200 religions, churches, denominations, religious bodies, faith groups, tribes, cultures, movements, ultimate concerns, etc")
Science & Technology
For more World statistics, see also these PSU Libraries' pages:
Arts and Humanities Library:
Business Library:
Education Library:
Physical and Mathematical Sciences Library:
Social Sciences Library:
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