Research Guides: International Business: Demographics/Statistics

International Statistics & Demographics

Check these sources for economic, demographic, and financial statistics on topics including population, industrial performance, consumer behavior, technology penetration, and more.

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A statistics portal that integrates data on over 80,000 topics from over 18,000 sources onto a single professional platform - categorized into 170 multidisciplinary categories, providing direct access to quantitative data on media, business, sports, politics, and a variety of other areas of interest.

UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics Online
Published annually by the UN Conference on Trade & Development, The Handbook of Statistics provides a comprehensive collection of statistical data relevant to the analysis of international trade, investment and development, for individual countries and for economic and trade groupings.
Eurostat
The official portal of the Statistical Office of the European Communities, Eurostat provides extensive statistical data and publications on EU countries. Browse or search and download predefined data and tables focused on: EU policy indicators; general and regional statistics; economy and finance; population and social conditions; industry, trade and services; agriculture and fisheries; external trade; transport; environment and energy; and, science and technology.
IADB DataGov: Governance Indicators Database
From the Inter-American Development Bank, DataGov provides publicly available governance indicators by country or region. It contains approximately 400 governance indicators grouped within five categories: Democratic system, market system, public management, rule of law, and socioeconomic indicators. (Requires Flash plugin)
International Statistical Agencies
Provided by the U.S. Census Bureau, this site provides a list of links to international statistical agencies. This website is a good source for country-specific social and economic indicators, including national census data.
International Programs - U.S. Census
The U.S. Census Bureau conducts demographic, economic, and geographic studies of other countries. Resources include the International Data Base (IDB) which includes demographic indicators, population pyramids, and source information for countries and areas with a population of 5,000 or more, Global Population Mapping, and more.

Data from International NGOs

International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Data & Statistics
The IMF's website offers the texts of all their complementary publications, as well as news releases, country publications, fund rates, standards and codes and a "what's new" column.
UNdata: A World of Information
The UNdata hub offers central access to the various United Nations statistical databases covering topics including Agriculture, Education, Employment, Energy, Human Development, Industry, Information and Communication Technology, National Accounts, Population, Tourism, and Trade.
World Bank Research & Data
The World Databank (TM) DataBank is an analysis and visualization tool that contains collections of time series data on a variety of topics including sovereign debt, education, health, and the environment.