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Agricultural Market Access Database
The database includes a broad set of information in a format intended to facilitate reference and calculation. There is currently data for 50 countries. Updates once a year. |
FAOSTAT
FAOSTAT provides time-series and cross sectional data relating to food and agriculture for some 200 countries. Data provided by Food and Agriculture Organisation.
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Global Economic Monitor
The Global Economic Monitor (GEM) is produced by the World Bank's Prospects Group (DECPG) of the Development Economics Vice-Presidency. GEM provides daily updates of global economic developments, with coverage of high income- as well as developing countries. Daily data is provided for exchange rates, equity markets, interest rates, stripped bond spreads, commodity prices and emerging market bond indices. Monthly data coverage is provided for consumer prices, high-tech market indicators, industrial production and merchandise trade, etc. Quarterly data is available for GDP, current account balances, and budget balances. All data sets are updated each weekday to capture the latest available observations. |
United Nations Statistics
Gateway to statistical information from databases of the UN and Member States |
WITS - World Integrated Trade Solution
World integrated Trade Solutions (WITS) gives access to international trade and protection related data and offers built-in analytical tools allowing users to assess the impact of tariff changes. WITS provide users with capabilities to retrieve and analyze trade and tariff data; convert data between different nomenclatures; customize country and product groups; and download data. WITS also includes simulation tool to calculate the impact of tariff changes on trade flows (trade creation and diversion), tariff revenues, and consumer welfare using partial equilibrium modeling tools.
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IDEAS
IDEAS is a large bibliographic database dedicated to Economics and available freely on the Internet. Over 750'000 items of research can be browsed or searched, and over 650'000 can be downloaded in full text! This site is part of a large volunteer effort to enhance the free dissemination of research in Economics, RePEc. |
EconLit [Citation database]
The American Economic Association’s electronic bibliography, EconLit, indexes more than thirty years of economics literature from around the world. Compiled and abstracted in an easily searchable format, EconLit is a comprehensive index of journal articles, books, book reviews, collective volume articles, working papers and dissertations.
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EIU - Economist Intelligence Unit
Online services by Economist Intelligence Unit. The site contains global research and advisory services, analysis and forecasts on over 200 countries, nine strategic industries, and a full range of management functions. Key titles include: Country report; Country Risk Service; Country Forecast. To access, click on Enterprise Client Access. |
Luxembourg Income Study
The Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) is a cross-national Data Archive and a Research Institute located in Luxembourg. The LIS archive contains two primary databases. The LIS Database includes income microdata from a large number of countries at multiple points in time. The newer LWS Database includes wealth microdata from a smaller selection of countries. Both databases include labour market and demographic data as well. Registered users may access the microdata for social scientific research using a remote-access system. All visitors to the website may download the LIS Key Figures, which provide country-level poverty and inequality indicators. |
Penn World Table
The Penn World Table provides purchasing power parity and national income accounts converted to international prices for 188 countries for some or all of the years 1950-2004. The European Union or the OECD provide more detailed purchasing power and real product estimates for their countries and the World Bank makes current price estimates for most PWT countries at the GDP level. |
Statistics by Country
University of Auckland compiles a list of official statistical websites, arranged by country. |
KOF Index of Globalization
The KOF Index of Globalization measures the three main dimensions of globalization:
* economic
* social
* and political.
In addition to three indices measuring these dimensions, the database calculates an overall index of globalization and sub-indices referring to
* actual economic flows
* economic restrictions
* data on information flows
* data on personal contact
* and data on cultural proximity. Data are available on a yearly basis for 158 countries over the period 1970 - 2006. Data are made available by the Swiss Institute for Business Cycle Research
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Joint External Debt Hub
The Joint External Debt Hub (JEDH)â€â€jointly developed by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the World Bank (WB)â€â€brings together external debt data and selected foreign assets from international creditor/market and national debtor sources. |
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Global Urban Observatory
Urban indicators are regularly collected in a sample of cities worldwide in order to report on progress in the twenty key areas of the Habitat Agenda at the city level. Data collection is conducted through local and national urban observatories as well as through selected regional institutions. The global urban indicators database 2 contains policy-oriented indicators for more than 200 cities worldwide. Its results have been analyzed and incorporated in the State of the World's Cities Report 2001. Data from UN Human Settlements Programme. |
Earth Trends : Environmental Information
EarthTrends is a comprehensive online database, maintained by the World Resources Institute, that focuses on the environmental, social, and economic trends that shape our world. |
OECD Aid to Environment at a Glance
These tables and charts (2003-2004) summarize statistics on the environmental focus of aid extended by each DAC member. Information shown includes the environment marker coverage, the top ten recipients and a sector breakdown of environment focused aid.
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OECD Environmental Data Compendium
The OECD Environmental Data Compendium presents data linking pollution and natural resources with economic activity placing pressures on the environment. |
World Bank Climate Change Portal
The World Bank Climate Change Portal is intended to provide quick and readily accessible climate and climate-related data to policy makers and development practitioners. The site also includes a mapping visualization tool displaysing key climate variables data as well as a screening tool for assessing development projects for sensitivities to climate change. |
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Encyclopædia Britannica Online
Online version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. |
Oxford English Dictionary
OED Online covers the second edition of the 20-volume print edition. Updated quarterly with at least 1000 new and revised entries. |
OurWorld 2.0
Our World 2.0 is a webzine brought to you by the United Nations University and asks the question: What can we do when faced with complex, inter-connected and pressing problems like climate change, oil depletion, food security and biodiversity?
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Population Reference Bureau
Free database provided by a civil society organization, with 137 variables for 220 countries in the areas of health, population, education, employment and more. Most currently available year only. |
World Population Prospects
Detailed population data from the United Nations Population Division, for countries worldwide, from 1950 with projections to 2050. |
Country Indicators
The cross-national data generated through CIFP was intended to have a variety of applications in government departments, NGOs, and by users in the private sector. The data set provides at-a-glance global overviews, issue-based perspectives and country performance measures. Currently, the data set includes measures of domestic armed conflict, governance and political instability, militarization, religious and ethnic diversity, demographic stress, economic performance, human development, environmental stress, and international linkages.
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DevInfo
DevInfo is a database system for monitoring human development. It is a tool for organizing, storing and presenting data in a uniform way to facilitate data sharing at the country level across government departments, UN agencies and development partners. DevInfo has features that produce tables, graphs and maps for inclusion in reports, presentations and advocacy materials.
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Measuring Worth
Measuring Worth is a database where you can ask questions of comparative value covering prices, purchasing power, earnings, GDP, interest rates, exchange rates and other economic variables. The calculators allow you to convert past values into current values (and vice versa).
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Statistics of the Human Development Report
You can access statistical data from the Human Development Report (HDR) and resources to help you better understand this data. You will also find helpful information about the human development index (HDI) and other indices, links to other background materials, data resources and on-going debates and discussions on human development statistics.
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IMF Portfolio Investment (CPIS Data)
The Coordinated Portfolio Investment Survey (CPIS) is conducted on an annual basis. The CPIS provides information on individual economy year-end holdings of portfolio investment securities-equity securities and debt securities-valued at market prices, cross-classified by the country of issuer of the securities. |
IMF Data Mapper
the IMF Data Mapper® includes data series on Gross Domestic Product (real GDP growth, GDP based on PPP per capita and nominal GDP per capita), Inflation (CPI rate) and Current Account Balance (US$ and percent of GDP). |
World Economic Outlook
The World Economic Outlook (WEO) database contains selected macroeconomic data series from the statistical appendix of the World Economic Outlook report, which presents the IMF staff's analysis and projections of economic developments at the global level, in major country groups and in many individual countries. Statistics are also grouped by country groups. Click on this link to access - http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2009/01/weodata/weoselagr.aspx |
IMF Principal Global Indicators
A website that brings together data for the major economies available from international agencies covering the financial, governmental, external, and real sectors, and provides links to data in web sites of international and national agencies. |
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JSTOR
JSTOR provides the complete archives of over 600 core scholarly journals. They have been digitized, starting with the very first issues, many of which date from the 1800s.
Available collections:
Arts & Sciences Complement
Arts & Sciences I Collection
Arts & Sciences II Collection
Business Collection
Ecology & Botany Collection
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ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect provides access to full text articles of existing Elsevier journals currently subscribed by participating libraries of the United Nations Consortium. From 1995 issues to the current issues. |
ProQuest
ProQuest online information service provides access to thousands of current periodicals and newspapers, many of them are updated daily and containing full text articles from 1986 or much earlier. |
DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals
This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 4343 journals in the director. |
Research Papers in Economics (RePEc)
RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) is a collaborative effort of hundreds of volunteers in 68 countries to enhance the dissemination of research in economics. The heart of the project is a decentralized database of working papers, journal articles and software components. All RePEc material is freely available. |
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SourceOECD
OECD's Online Library includes statistical databases, full text books and periodicals.
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OECD.Stat
OECD.Stat includes data and metadata for OECD countries and selected non-member economies |
OECD Query Wizard for International Development Statistics
DAC statistics provide comprehensive data on the volume, origin and types of aid and resource flows to over 150 developing countries and territories. There are two main data collections, one on annual aggregates (DAC aggregate statistics) which covers official development assistance (ODA), other official flows (OOF) and private funding (foreign direct investment, bank and non-bank flows) from members of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC), multilateral organisations and other donors.
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OECD Employment Database
OECD data on labour market outcomes, jobs quality, labour market policies and institutions.
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OECD Database on Immigrants
The new Database on Immigrants in OECD Countries (DIOC) provides comprehensive and comparative information on a broad range of demographic and labour market characteristics of immigrants living in OECD countries. The database has been compiled in collaboration with OECD national statistical offices. The main sources of data are population censuses and population registers, sometimes supplemented by labour force surveys.
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OECD Health Data
OECD Health Data 2009 – Statistics and Indicators for 30 Countries offers the most comprehensive source of comparable statistics on health and health care systems in OECD countries. It is an essential tool for policy advisors in governments, health researchers in the private sector and the academic community to carry out comparative analyses and draw lessons from cross-country comparisons of national health systems. |
OECD Factbook
It provides a global overview of today’s major economic, social and environmental indicators, in a range of user-friendly formats. More countries than ever are covered in greater detail, enabling direct comparisons for many indicators between OECD Members and Brazil, Russian Federation, India, Indonesia, China and South Africa.
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OECD Main Economic Indicators
The Main Economic Indicators (MEI) presents comparative statistics that provide an overview of recent international economic developments through the presentation of a wide range of short-term economic indicators for the OECD member countries, 5 area totals and selected non-member countries.
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OECD Economic Outlook Database
Statistics compiled from the OECD Economic Outlook. |
OECD Globalisation
Statistics are from 1983 onwards. |
OECD Gender, Institutions and Development Studies
This database presents comparative data on gender equality in 161 countries around the world. The data base features general socio-economic information on each country as well as specific information on the economic status of women, their political empowerment and their access to resources such as education and health. Furthermore, the data base provides information on social institutions such as marriage customs that have an impact on gender equality. Specifically, social institutions comprise the following four areas: family law; physical integrity; ownership rights and civil liberties.
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OECD International Direct Investment Statistics
The OECD's International Direct Investment database provides detailed statistics on international direct investment to and from the OECD area. Data are broken down by geographical zone and industrial sector for direct investment flows and stocks. The data are presented in the following tables:
Direct Investment by Country
Provides statistics for OECD countries on international direct investment flows (inflows, outflows) and position (inward, outward) by geographical distribution, i.e. to and from partner countries and regions. Data are provided in national currency.
FDI - by Industrial Sectors
Provides statistics for OECD countries on international direct investment flow (inflows, outflows) and positions (inward, outward) by industrial sector, according to the International Standard Industrial Classification Rev. 3 secondary level classification.
Exchange Rates
Provides statistics for OECD countries on exchange rates both as yearly averages and end-of-period rates in national currency units per United States dollar (USD). Note: These OECD series relate to exchange rates used at the time of drafting to compute the amounts in US dollars for comparative tables. Data are provided in national currency per US dollar.
Summary Tables
This table provides cross-country comparisons of international direct investment flows (inflows, outflows) and positions (outward, inward). Data are provided in millions of US dollars
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African Centre for Statistics
Statistics provided by United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. |
World Bank Africa
Statistics information provided by World Bank. |
ECA Statistical Database
Statistics are provided by United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. Data is arranged by country. |
African Economic Outlook - Data & Statistics
AfricanEconomicOutlook.org is the latest evolution of the annual African Economic Outlook report, essentially bringing its trusted, high quality content into the digital age. Like the report, AfricanEconomicOutlook.org combines the expertise of the African Development Bank, the OECD Development Centre, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and a network of African think tanks and research centres. Its wide country coverage and methods of analysis are essential for anyone seeking to understand the economic, social and political developments of African countries.
The website provides comprehensive and comparable data and analysis of 47 African economies, which account for 99 per cent of the continent’s population and 97 per cent of its economic output. Each country profile is generated by an expert from a partner institution who meets with and collects data and information from the most important stakeholders in each context. These include: authorities in the Treasury, Offices of Statistics and Planning; members and representatives of the private sector such as banks, the Chamber of Commerce and large companies; NGOs, trade unions, journalists and donors. They then produce a comprehensive analysis of the recent developments and undertake original projections for the near future.
AfricanEconomicOutlook.org is the only resource on Africa which employs a cross-country, macro-economic framework, allowing for comparative analysis both over time and across countries. It also undertakes in-depth studies of sectors critical for the continent’s development. Beyond the country outlooks, you will find important resources such as ongoing research, trends, news and events.
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ASEAN Statistics
Statistics compiled by the Association of South East Asian Nations ie, quarterly data for GDP, inflation, monetary and fiscal, trade. |
Asian Development Bank : Statistical Database System Online
The Statistical Database System (SDBS)* is a searchable database of essential social, economic, and financial indicators relating to Asian Development Bank’s developing member countries.
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European Commission Eurostat
Eurostat is the Statistical Office of the European Communities situated in Luxembourg. Its task is to provide the European Union with statistics at European level that enable comparisons between countries and regions. |
Interstate Statistical Committee of the Commonwealth of Independent States
Statistical information from the CIS countries (Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine.)
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European Commission AMECO Database
AMECO is the annual macro-economic database of the European Commission's Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN). Database contains data for EU-27, the euro area, EU Member States, candidate countries and other OECD countries (United States, Japan, Canada, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, Mexico, Korea, Australia and New Zealand). Some data dates from 1960 and forecast ahead for two years.
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European Commission The LIME Assessment Framework
LAF is an analytical tool designed to help Member States identify policy measures to raise growth potential. This is part of the work that the LIME group, a sub-committee of the Economic Policy Committee (EPC) has undertaken to track, analyse and model structural reforms under the Lisbon process. The focus of this work |
European Commission MACMIC
MACMIC is an analytical tool that can be used to help assess the impact of planned/enacted structural reforms in the context of the Lisbon strategy and to prioritise reform across policy areas. MACMIC is intended to include any type of model-based simulations or econometric estimations on past data (time-series or panel) which show the impact of structural policies on the main macroeconomic variables (GDP, employment, wages, etc.).
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European Commission MICREF
MICREF is a tool for monitoring and analysing the reform process. Its aim is to improve the surveillance of micro-economic reforms in the EU Member States in the context of the Lisbon agenda. MICREF provides a systematic record of the actual implementation of microeconomic reform measures. |
ECB Statistical Data Warehouse
Types of statistics made available by European Central Bank : money, banking and financial market statistics; balance of payments and other external statistics; euro area accounts; government finance statistics; statistics on the HICP, other prices, costs, output and the labour markets.
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European Union KLEMS
KLEMS is a database created to measure economic growth, productivity, employment creation, capital formation and technological change at the industry level for all European Union member states from 1970 onwards. This work will provide an important input to policy evaluation, in particular for the assessment of the goals concerning competitiveness and economic growth potential as established by the Lisbon and Barcelona summit goals. |
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Development Statistics for Latin America and the Caribbean
This web site, a companion to the annual publication Latin America and the Caribbean: Selected Economic and Social Data, provides the public, U.S. government agencies, and international development partners with socio-economic data on countries in Latin America and Caribbean. Statistics from US Aid.
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Statistical appendix to the publication. |
CEPALSTAT
This page is the gateway to all the statistical information that systematizes UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. It provides access to statistical databases that are kept in different divisions of the Commission. Most of them enable the development of real-time tables combining data from different series and/or countries and/or periods. Each of the variables has associated a description of the sources, as well as definitions and other relevant characteristics of the same.
It is also accessed through this page to the statistical publications, or statistical annexes of ECLAC publications containing tables prepared with data of various kinds.
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Caribbean Community Secretariat : Regional Statistics
The Statistics Sub-programme compiles statistics on the member countries of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). These data are submitted to the Secretariat by the member states themselves, either by the National Statistics Office or the Central Bank, depending on the nature of the data. Occasionally, in the absence of data from the member states, third party sources would be utilised. |
Oxford Latin American Economic History Database
The Oxford Latin American Economic History Database (OxLAD) contains statistical series for a wide range of economic and social indicators covering twenty countries in the region for the period 1900-2000. Its purpose is to provide economic and social historians worldwide with a systematic recompilation of available statistical information in a single on-line source. |
Inter-American Development Bank : Data & Statistics
The Bank has compiled and organized over 1,000 searchable statistics and indicators for countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, creating a comprehensive dataset for the region.
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Arab Monetary Fund Statistics
Economic and trade statistics |
SESRIC Statistics & Databases
Database provides data on 250 socio-economic variables under 17 categories for the 57 OIC Member States dating back to 1970. Statistics compiled by Statistical, Economic and Social Research and Training Centre for Islamic Countries (SESRIC) |
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United Nations COMTRADE
This web site provides access to information and data on International Merchandise Trade Statistics (IMTS) and the work of the International Merchandise Trade Statistics Section (IMTSS) of the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). |
UNCTAD Commodity Price Statistics
Commodity Price Statistics provide monthly free-market prices and price indices starting in January 1960 for selected commodities that concern commodity-dependent countries. Price indices are provided for commodity groups (including food, tropical beverages, vegetable oilseeds and oils, agricultural raw materials, minerals, ores and metals), and for all groups in current dollars and SDRs.
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UNCTAD TRAINS
TRAINS (TRade Analysis and INformation System) provides online access to indicators of Trade Control Measures (Tariff, Para-tariff and Non-tariff measures), as well as imports by suppliers at each Harmonized System 6-digit level for over 150 countries. It also provides country notes of trade regimes for some 40 developing countries, describing market access conditions according to the UNCTAD Coding System of Trade Control Measures.
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BACI : International Trade Database at the Product Level
BACI is the CEPII world database for international trade analysis at the product-level. BACI aims to provide the most disaggregated international trade database (more than 5000 products) for the largest number of countries (over 200) and years (from 1995), with a special care in the treatment of unit values. Original procedures are developed to reconcile data reported by countries to United Nations COMTRADE. (Userid : library@wider.unu.edu. Password : library) |
World Trade Organisation : Statistics Gateway
WTO statistics database allows you to retrieve statistical information in the following presentations.
* The Trade Profiles provide predefined information leaflets on the trade situation of members, observers and other selected economies;
* The Tariff Profiles provide information on the market access situation of members, observers and other selected economies;
* The Services Profiles provide detailed statistics on key infrastructure services (transportation, telecommunications, finance and insurance) for selected economies;
* The Time Series section allows an interactive data retrieval of international trade statistics. |
Central American Trade Statistics
Trade statistics provided by the Secretariat for the Central American Economic Integration (SIECA) |
European Commission Market Access Database
Trade statistics provided by European Commission. |
OECD International Trade by Commodity Database
The OECD International Trade by Commodities Statistics (ITCS) contains annual time series data from 1961 onwards on foreign trade of the OECD's Member countries and selected non-OECD countries (China, Hong Kong China and Chinese Taipei). It provides detailed data on commodity and partner country in value and in quantity. |
OECD Monthly Statistics of International Trade
The Monthly Statistics of International Trade database is a reliable and up-to-date source of international statistics on foreign trade of OECD countries. It provides detailed insight into the most recent trends in trading patterns among OECD countries and with the rest of the world. Data are broken down by economic groupings, by country and by region, and include seasonally adjusted series as well as calculated indicators.
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International Trade Centre Country Map
The country approach offers an overview of ITC's technical cooperation activities at the country and regional levels. It provides links to national trade support institutions and country-specific business information. In addition, it presents trade and market profiles, Country Map, based on trade statistics which benchmark national trade performance and provide indicators on export supply and import demand. |
WB World Trade Indicators
WTI have following 5 tabs to view indicators :
The Country Ranking tab displays a ranked list of countries for any one time period, for five indicators. Users can choose (up to five) alternative indicators in one or all categories, a sub-set of countries, and any time period.
The Country Snapshot tab displays a table of indicators for four time periods for a specific country and two comparators, one of which is the region to which the country belongs. Users can select any number of indicators, four time periods, and the second comparator country or country group.
In the Country Comparison tab charts and tables are displayed for up to five indicators for one time period and for up to ten countries or country groups, including up to two user-defined country groups.
In the Overtime Comparison tab a user can view, in chart and table format, the evolution of one indicator for up to ten countries or country groups, including up to two user defined country groups, and some pre-determined comparator countries.
The Map tab provides a color-coded world map showing relative country performance for one indicator and for one time period, both selected by the user.
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Yearbook of United Nations
The Yearbook is the principal reference work of the United Nations and provides a detailed overview of the Organization's activities.
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United Nations Common Database (UNCDB)
The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) has launched a new internet-based data service for the global user community. It brings UN statistical databases within easy reach of users through a single entry point (http://data.un.org/) from which users can now search and download a variety of statistical resources of the UN System.
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United Nations Monthly Bulletin of Statistics Online
The Monthly Bulletin of Statistics Online presents current economic and social statistics for more than 200 countries and territories of the world. It contains 51 tables, comprising over 100 indicators, of monthly, quarterly and annual data on a variety of subjects illustrating important economic trends and developments, including population, industrial production indices, price indices, employment and earnings, energy, manufacturing, transport, construction, international merchandise trade and finance.
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United Nations ODS [Official Documents Search]
ODS covers all types of official United Nations documentation, beginning in 1993. Older UN documents are, however, added to the system on a daily basis. ODS also provides access to the resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and the Trusteeship Council from 1946 onwards. |
United Nations Population and Vital Statistics Report
The Population and Vital Statistics Report: Series A presents most recent data on population size (total, male and female) from the latest available census of the population, national official population estimates and the number and rate (births, deaths and infant deaths) for the latest available year within the past 15 years. It also presents United Nations estimates of the mid-year population of the world, with its various areas and regions.
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UNCTAD Foreign Direct Investment database
UNCTAD compiles statistics on foreign direct investment (FDI). The data are presented in two separate products: an interactive database for the aggregate figures and an electronic publication with the detailed information by country.
The FDI database presents aggregate inflows, outflows, inward stocks and outward stocks of foreign direct investment (FDI) for 196 reporting economies in an interactive format.
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UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics
The goal of the UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics online is to provide the statistical data essential for the analysis of the world trade, investment, international financial flows and development. This database provides the opportunity to disseminate the economic, demographic and social series which serve as a fundamental support for UNCTAD´s research tasks, intergovernmental dialogue, and technical assistance.
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UNCTAD Information and Communication Technology Statistics
The Measuring ICT Website provides information on the development of ICT statistics and indicators worldwide, with an emphasis on supporting ICT policies and the information economies in developing countries.
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UNCTAD Millennium Development Goal Indicators Database
As a tool to monitor the implementation of the Millennium Declaration [PDF: A/RES/55/2] adopted at the United Nations General Assembly in September 2000, a series of 48 indicators have been developed by experts of international organizations. Each indicator was then assigned to the relevant organizations. UNCTAD is responsible, together with IMF, WTO and the World Bank, for the Market Access Indicators.
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ILO Database on Labour Statistics
View and download data and metadata for over 200 countries or territories from LABORSTA, an International Labour Office database on labour statistics operated by the ILO Department of Statistics |
UNESCAP Statistics Divison : Data Centre
Comprises of two databases - Annual Core and Short-term indicators. The online database contains time series data for selected indicators covering a wide range of issues in relation to the secretariat's work: demography, migration, education, health, poverty, gender, employment, economy, government finance, employment, transport, and environment. |
UNESCO : Data Builder
Access data and build your own statistical tables related to UNESCO's fields of action.
The Data Centre contains over 1,000 types of indicators and raw data on education, literacy, science and technology, culture and communication.
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UNECE Statistical Database
This database is maintained by the Statistical Division of the UNECE Secretariat. It provides free access to data structured to facilitate easy retrieval of statistics by users. It is organised by subject or policy areas. Multi-dimensional tables present data by country, by various socio-economic classifications related to the context, and by time period. Data is presented under three subject areas:
Macroeconomic Statistics
Gender Statistics
Transport Statistics
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UNHCR Statistical Online Population Database
UNHCR seeks to contribute to informed decision-making and public debate by providing accurate, relevant and up-to-date statistics. As such, the Statistical Online Population Database provides data and trends on the "Population of concern to UNHCR": refugees, asylum-seekers, returned refugees, internally displaced persons (IDPs) protected/assisted by UNHCR, returned IDPs, stateless persons, and others of concern to UNHCR, in more than 150 countries.
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UN National Accounts Main Aggregrate Database
The Economic Statistics Branch of the United Nations Statistics Division maintains this National Accounts Statistics database of main national accounts aggregates. It is the product of a global cooperation effort between the United Nations Statistics Division, international statistical agencies and the national statistical services of more than 200 countries and is in accordance with the request of the Statistical Commission that the most recent available data on national accounts of as many countries and areas as possible be published and disseminated regularly.
This National Accounts Statistics database contains a complete and consistent set of time series from 1970 onwards of main national accounts aggregates for allUN Members States and all other countries and areas in the world. It is maintained and updated on the basis of annual collections of the official annual national accounts statistics supplemented by estimates of national accounts statistics for those years and countries for which the official statistics has incomplete or inconsistent information. In addition, to the values of national accounts statistics, it contains analytical indicators and ratios derived from the main national accounts aggregates related to economic structure and development.
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UN's Statistics Resource Guide
This guide will help you find resources focusing on statistical information. It provides links to major organizations and institutes and to relevant documents and databases. It also highlights the collections of the UNOG Library and UNCTAD on the topic of statistics - both print and online resources (books, articles, journals, and databases). Many of these resources contain full-text documents |
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World Bank e-Library
Fully cross-searchable portal of over 5,000 World Bank publications. The collection consists of over 2,000 World Bank publications and over 3,200 Policy Research Working Papers, plus each new book and paper as they are published. |
WB World Development Indicators Online
WDI provides direct access to more than 800 development indicators, with time series for 209 countries and 18 country groups from 1960 to 2008, where data are available. |
WB Global Development Finance Online
GDP provides direct access to more than 200 debt and financial flows indicators for the 129 countries that report public and publicly-guaranteed debt to the World Bank Debtor Reporting System. These data run from 1970 to 2016, where available. |
World Bank Databank
The data presented here are the most widely-used, official-source development data from the World Bank and other international agencies. |
World Bank Data on Poverty and Inequality
This section provides information on recent trends in poverty indicators and links to sources of data on poverty. |
WB PovertyNet
Poverty analysis is one of the principle steps in formulating a poverty reduction strategy. This website presents information on the different dimensions of poverty and the methodologies used for its measurement and analysis |
WB PovcalNet
PovcalNet is an interactive computational tool that allows users to replicate the calculations made by the World Bank’s researchers in estimating the extent of absolute poverty in the world. It also allows users to calculate the poverty measures under different assumptions and to assemble the estimates using alternative country groupings or for any set of individual countries of their choice.
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Doing Business database
Doing Business database provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 183 economies and selected cities at the subnational and regional level. |
WB Africa Development Indicators
Africa Development Indicators provides the most comprehensive collection of data on Africa available. It contains data for over 1,400 statistical indicators and time series from 1965 for 53 countries. Data include social, economic, financial, natural resources, infrastructure, governance, partnership, and environmental indicators.
Africa Development Indicators Online includes the most up-to-date data on Africa and incorporates many useful features. Results can be scaled, mapped, and charted. The mapping function will allow users to see the results in a map than can be resized and zoomed to the country level. These features plus data export options in standard formats such as Excel make Africa Development Indicators Online the most useful tool yet for researching development data on Africa. In addition to the valuable data, each year Africa Development Indicators Online also brings an essay on a key topic for Africa.
Designed to provide all those interested in Africa with a focused and convenient set of data monitoring development programs and aid flows in the region, Africa Development Indicators Online is an invaluable reference tool for analysts and policymakers who want better understanding of the economic and social developments occurring in the region.
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WB Global Economic Monitor
Global Economic Monitor provides daily and monthly commentary on global economic conditions along with direct access to high frequency data that is refreshed daily. It provides analysis of current economic trends, economic, financial and commodity data indicators, an extensive database including growth and commodity forecasts and access to the iSimulate modeling platform. |
WB Millennium Development Goals
Database of official indicators for monitoring progress toward Millennium Development Goals. |
WB Quarterly External Debt Statistics
The Quarterly External Debt Statistics (QEDS) database brings together detailed external debt data that are published individually by countries that subscribe to the IMF’s Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS) as well as GDDS participating countries that are in a position to produce the external debt data prescribed by the SDDS. The participation of countries in the SDDS/QEDS database is voluntary. Currently, sixty-two SDDS subscribing countries and three GDDS countries have agreed to participate in this database.
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WB Gender Statistics
Gender Statistics database provides data on key gender topics. Themes included are demographics, education, health, labor force, and political participation. |
WB International Comparison Program
The International Comparison Program (ICP) is a worldwide statistical partnership to collect comparative price data and compile detailed expenditure values of countries’ gross domestic products (GDP), and to estimate purchasing power parities (PPPs) of the world’s economies. Using PPPs instead of market exchange rates to convert currencies makes it possible to compare the output of economies and the welfare of their inhabitants in real terms (that is, controlling for differences in price levels). |
Worldwide Governance Indicators
Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) project reports aggregate and individual governance indicators for 212 countries and territories over the period 1996–2008, for six dimensions of governance. |
Private Sector at a Glance
Private sector tables cover more than 40 indicators on economic and social context, business environment, private sector investment, finance & banking, and infrastructure. |
