Research Guides: Country Social Statistics: Statistics

Statistical Sources

Statista
Statista provides access to quantitative facts by market sector, encompassing agriculture, finance, and politics, and others. Statista is a statistics portal that integrates thousands of diverse topics of data and facts from a wide range of sources onto a single platform. Sources of information include market research, trade publications, scientific journals, and government databases.

IPUMS
IPUMS provides census and survey data from around the world integrated across time and space.
The World Factbook
Basic country statistics and demographics from Central Intelligence Agency
Our World in Data
All visualizations, data, and code produced by Our World in Data are completely open access under the Creative Commons BY license. You have the permission to use, distribute, and reproduce these in any medium, provided the source and authors are credited.

World Bank DataBank
DataBank is an analysis and visualisation tool that contains collections of time series data on a variety of topics: Agriculture & Rural Development, Aid Effectiveness, Climate Change, Economy & Growth, Education, Energy & Mining, Environment, External Debt, Financial Sector, Gender, Health, Infrastructure, Poverty, Private Sector, Public Sector, Science & Technology, Social Development, Social Protection & Labor, Trade, Urban Development. DataBank includes World Development Indicators (WDI), which is a major source of data on the development of countries and regions.

More Specifc Financial and Health Sources

World Health Organization Health Topics has statistical and news information on the 193 member countries.

United Nations Water UN-Water is the United Nations inter-agency coordination mechanism for all freshwater and sanitation related matters.

OECD Library and OECD Statistics primarily on the most developed countries with some additional coverage.

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