This guide is intended to be used as a resource discovery tool for additional
internationally available data and information resources. It is split into
six sections:
- Selected Sources of freely available international
data: This section has a list of web sites which provide freely
available international data.
- National data archives and sources of international micro data:
These links provide access to the web sites of a number of national data
archives via clickable maps and links to other sources of international micro data.
- National statistics institutes:
A comprehensive list of national statistics office web sites in alphabetical
country order. These sites are most useful for individual country information
for example on the economy, population and society at national and local
level.
- International organisations:
Links to the web sites of major International Organisations such as the
United Nations (UN), World Health Organisation (WHO) and the International
Monetary Fund (IMF).
- Regional organisations:
This section provides a list of region specific information and data resource
web sites for the following areas: Africa, Americas, Asia, Oceania, Europe,
European Union.
- Resources on methodology, standards and
good practice in international data: Web sites containing information
on statistical, data dissemination and good practice standards are listed
in this section.
- Data visualisation: This section contains a list of resources that contain interactive visual interfaces.
1. Selected sources of freely available international
data
Intergovernmental Organisations
WorldBank GenderStats (http://devdata.worldbank.org/genderstats/)- a database of gender indicators, basic demographic data, population
dynamics, labour force structure, education and health statistics.
The World Bank
Governance and anti-corruption group (www.worldbank.org/wbi/governance) disseminates a range of publications and data on national
government and business environments, including:
- The Interactive Inventory of Datasets/Empirical Tools (http://go.worldbank.org/W0DI8LZMD0), This is illustrated by the worldwide aggregate Governance Indicators Dataset, generated by researchers at the World Bank, comprising six different governance components for about 200 countries.
- The World Business
Environment Survey (http://info.worldbank.org/governance/wbes/) a survey of over 10,000 firms in 80 countries that
examines a wide range of interactions between firms and the state
- Business Environment
and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) Interactive Dataset (http://info.worldbank.org/governance/beeps/) a survey
of managers and owners of firms across the countries of Eastern Europe,
the former Soviet Union, and Turkey designed to generate comparative measurements
of the quality of governance, the investment climate and the competitive
environment
World Bank ICT at a Glance (http://go.worldbank.org/GAG7BVEGU0)-
key data on information and communications technologies.
World
Bank Country at a Glance (http://go.worldbank.org/0LJX63EF90) provides a PDF file for every country on its
social and economic development over the last three decades.
World Bank EdStats (http://go.worldbank.org/ITABCOGIV1)- the World Bank’s database of education statistics.
World Bank HNPStats
(go.worldbank.org/N2N84RDV00)
- health, nutrition, and population statistics country by country.
International Household Survey Network is a partnership of international
organizations seeking to improve the availability, quality and use of survey
data in developing countries. It has a catalogue of surveys and censuses conducted
in developing countries.
World Health Organization
Statistical Information System (www.who.int/whosis/en/)- the WHO gateway for health and health-related
epidemiological and statistical information.
UN Statistical division
(http://unstats.un.org/unsd/databases.htm) - access to a range of freely available UN databases including the Millennium
Indicators Database (http://millenniumindicators.un.org/unsd/mi/mi_goals.asp), Social
Indicators (http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/socind/) , which covers a wide range of subject matter fields such as
education, housing, health and water, Population
Statistics (http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/sconcerns/densurb/default.htm) and a Good
Practices database (http://unstats.un.org/unsd/dnss/gp/searchgp.aspx) on official statistics methodology. The National
Accounts Main Aggregates ( http://unstats.un.org/unsd/snaama) database contains a complete set of time series
from 1970 onwards of main national accounts aggregates for more than 200 countries
and territories. In addition to the values of national accounts statistics,
it contains analytical indicators and ratios related to economic structure
and development, country profiles and metadata.
UNCTAD's World Investment Report
(http://www.unctad.org/Templates/Page.asp?intItemID=1465) The World Investment Report focuses on
trends in foreign direct investment (FDI) worldwide, at the regional and country levels. It provides
information regarding global FDI flows, stocks, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, and investment
treaties based on year and country.
UNECE Gender
Statistics Database (http://www.unece.org/stats/gender/) , the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe’s
central database for sex-disaggregated social data.
FAOSTAT (http://faostat.fao.org/), the UN Food and Agriculture
Organization’s food, forestry, fisheries and agricultural statistics
gateway.
UNESCO’s Institute for Statistics (www.uis.unesco.org/)
provides global and internationally comparable statistics on education, science,
technology, culture and communication.
UNICEF’s Monitoring
and Statistics (www.unicef.org/statistics/index.html) - economic and social statistics on children worldwide.
UNIDO’s Selected
Country Industrial Statistics (http://www.unido.org/index.php?id=4879) - a country by country snapshot of current
key industrial indicators.
SourceOECD (www.sourceoecd.org/), the OECD’s online
statistics library, is a subscription service but it does contain some selected
freely available datasets. For example, Education
at a Glance (www.oecd.org/document/7/0,2340,en_2649_34515_33712135_1_1_1_1,00.html) provides internationally comparable data on key aspects of
education systems.
IMF
World Economic Outlook (www.imf.org/external/ns/cs.aspx?id=28) provides worldwide data on GDP, GDP per capita,
inflation, output gaps and net capital flows.
The
Joint BIS-IMF-OECD-World
Bank statistics on external debt (
www.bis.org/publ/r_debt.htm)- The Bank for International Settlements,
the IMF, the OECD and the World Bank provide a joint quarterly release of
the external debt of 176 developing and transition countries, together with
data on international reserves.
Eurostat (http://europa.eu.int/comm/eurostat/)- the European
Union Statistical gateway with many freely available data.
Eurydice (
www.eurydice.org/)- the information network on education in Europe provides comparable information on education systems and policies throughout Europe.
Selected
Energy Statistics (www.iea.org/Textbase/stats/index.asp)- free environmental and energy data from the International
Energy Agency
International Labour Organisation Key Indicators of the Labour Market (KILM) (http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/strat/kilm/index.htm) - The KILM programme was launched by the ILO in 1999 to complement existing data collection programmes and to improve the dissemination of data of the key elements of the world’s labour markets. The KILM dataset comprises a core set of labour market indicators that allow new employment trends to be analysed and monitored.
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Academic
ESDS International (www.esds.ac.uk/international/)- a range
of international micro and macro datasets such as the OECD Main Economic Indicators,
National Statistics Time Series Data, Eurobarometers, World Values Surveys
and European Values Surveys.
Penn World Tables (http://pwt.econ.upenn.edu/php_site/pwt_index.php)- the Penn World
Table provides purchasing power parity and national income accounts converted
to international prices for 168 countries for some or all of the years 1950-2000.
Expenditure entries are denominated in a common set of prices in a common
currency so that real quantity comparisons can be made, both between countries
and over time. It also provides information about relative prices within and
between countries, as well as demographic data and capital stock estimates.
Oxford Latin American Economic History
Database (OxLAD) (http://oxlad.qeh.ox.ac.uk/) - an online database that contains statistical series
for a wide range of economic and social indicators covering twenty countries
in Latin America for the period 1900-2000.
Council of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA) Data Portal
(www.cessda.org) The CESSDA
Data Portal provides an interface to datasets hosted by social science data archives across Europe. The information
within the portal can be viewed in any of nine languages and can be search by a multilingual thesaurus.
Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (www.cses.org)is a collaborative program of cross-national research among election study
teams in over fifty states.
Centre for Comparative European Survey Data (CCESD) Information System
(http://www.ccesd.ac.uk)
Enables users to search the full text of survey questionnaires by survey dataset and search across survey datasets for all questions asked in selected countries
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UK Government
The Bank of
England Monetary & Financial Statistics Division (www.bankofengland.co.uk/statistics/index.htm) has a regularly updated
web site of UK financial data. Many of these statistics appear in the National
Statistics Time Series Data, but the Bank's web pages contain extra detail,
particularly on banking, the money markets (including the gilt repo market)
and micro-economic data on individual UK banks and building societies.
HM Revenue and Customs uktradeinfo (www.uktradeinfo.com/)
web site provides data collected by HM Revenue and Customs from returns and
reports required with every export and import consignment.
National Statistics Online (www.statistics.gov.uk) is
the home of the UK Office of National Statistics with a huge range of freely
available data on Britain's economy, population and society at national and
local level. This site also contains links to the Time Series Data through
the National Statistics' own web interface.
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Other
CIA World Factbook (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/)
- frequently updated maps and country profiles, including information on geography,
demography, economy, communication, transport, defence, governance and transnational
issues organised by country.
Developed by the Norwegian Social Science Data Services, the MacroDataGuide (http://www.nsd.uib.no/macrodataguide/) is a user’s guide to researchers and students worldwide in search of high quality data for social science research. It informs not only on which data are out there and where they can be found, it also provides a qualitative assessement of these resources.
Asian Development Bank statistics (www.adb.org/Statistics/)
- key indicators for developing member countries, poverty and development
indicators, and environmental statistics.
World Intellectual Property Organization Industrial
property statistics (www.wipo.org/ipstats/en/). Annual statistics on industrial property relating
to relate to patents, utility models, marks, industrial designs, plant varieties
and microorganisms, by country .
The Organization of American States Foreign
Trade Information System (http://www.sice.oas.org/). Trade data and information on tariffs, competition
policy and other trade issues, country by country.
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
(Sipri) (www.sipri.se/). The authoritative resource on global security, military spending,
conflict and conflict resolution. The
SIPRI Database on Military Expenditure(http://www.sipri.org/contents/milap/milex/mex_database1.html) contains time series data on military
spending over the last ten years for 160 countries. Their Database
on National Export Control Systems (http://www.sipri.org/contents/expcon/db1.html) contains summary information on export
controls and proscribed destinations by country. The SIPRI
Facts on International Relations and Security Trends (http://first.sipri.org/) contains individual
country data on nuclear and conventional weapon holdings, arms production
and trade, major armed conflicts and other key security issues.
Global Education Database (http://qesdb.cdie.org/ged/index.html) is is a repository
of international education statistics compiled from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics and the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS).
Nationmaster.com (http://www.nationmaster.com/) provides the facility to generate statistics, maps and graphs from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, United Nations,
World Health Organization, World Bank, World Resources Institute, UNESCO, UNICEF and OECD.
International Comparisons in Education (http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/international/Index.asp?IntSection=2) develops a system of indicators for cross-national comparisons in education.
European Election Database (http://extweb3.nsd.uib.no/civicactivecms/opencms/civicactive/en/) provides an on-line database of aggregated election statistics from European Parliament elections.
2. National data archives and sources of international micro data
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3. National statistics institutes
Algeria: National
Office of Statistics (www.ons.dz/English/indexag.htm)
Argentina: National Institute
of Census and Statistics (www.indec.gov.ar/indec/ingles.asp)
Armenia: National Statistical
Service (www.armstat.am)
Aruba: Central
Bureau of Statistics (http://www.cbs.aw/cbs/home.do)
Australia: Australian Bureau
of Statistics (www.abs.gov.au)
Austria: Statistik
Austria (www.statistik.at/index_englisch.shtml)
Azerbaijan: State
Statistical Committee (www.azstat.org/indexen.php)
Bangladesh: Bureau of Statistics
(http://www.bbs.gov.bd/index.php)
Barbados: Barbados
Government Information Services (www.barbados.gov.bb/)
Belarus: Ministry
of Statistics and Analysis (www.belstat.gov.by/homep/en/main.html)
Belgium: National Institute
of Statistics (www.statbel.fgov.be)
Bolivia: Instituto Nacional de
Estadística (www.ine.gov.bo/)
Botswana: Central Statistics
Office (www.cso.gov.bw/)
Brazil: Brazilian Institute
of Geography and Statistics (http://www.ibge.gov.br/home/)
Bulgaria: National
Statistical Institute (www.nsi.bg/Index_e.htm)
Cambodia: National Institute
of Statistics (http://statsnis.org/index.htm)
Canada: Statistics
Canada (www.statcan.ca/start.html)
Cape Verde: National Institute
of Statistics (www.ine.cv/)
Chile: Instituto Nacionial de
Estadisticas (http://www.ine.cl/canales/chile_estadistico/home_eng.php?lang=eng)
China: National
Bureau of Statistics (www.stats.gov.cn/english/index.htm)
Columbia: Departamento Administrativo
Nacional de Estadistica (www.dane.gov.co)
Costa Rica: Instituto Nacional
de Estadistica y Censos (INEC) (www.inec.go.cr/)
Croatia: Croatian
Bureau of Statistics (www.dzs.hr/default_e.htm)
Cyprus: Statistical
Service of the Republic of Cyprus (www.mof.gov.cy/mof/cystat/statistics.nsf/index_en/index_en?OpenDocument)
Czech Republic: Czech
Statistical Office (www.czso.cz/eng/redakce.nsf/i/home)
Denmark: Statistics
Denmark (www.dst.dk/HomeUK.aspx)
Dominican Republic: Oficina
Nacional de Estadistica (www.one.gob.do/)
Equador: Instituto Nacional
de Estadistica y Censos (www.inec.gov.ec)
Estonia: Statistical Office
of Estonia (http://www.stat.ee/?lang=en)
Faroe Islands: Statistics
Faroe Islands (www.hagstova.fo/)
Finland: Statistics Finland (www.stat.fi)
France: National
Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE) (www.insee.fr/en/home/home_page.asp)
Germany: Federal
Statistical Office (www.destatis.de/e_home.htm)
Greece: National Statistical
Service (http://www.statistics.gr/Main_eng.asp)
Greenland: Statistics
Greenland (http://www.stat.gl/)
Guatemala:
Instituto Nacional de Estadistica - INE (www.ine.gob.gt/)
Hong Kong: Census
and Statistics Department (www.censtatd.gov.hk/home/index.jsp)
Hungary: Hungarian
Central Statistical Office (http://portal.ksh.hu)
Iceland: Statistics Iceland
(www.statice.is/)
India:
Census of India (http://www.censusindia.gov.in/)
Indian Statistical Institute (www.isid.ac.in/)
Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (www.mospi.nic.in)
Indonesia: Statistics Indonesia (www.bps.go.id)
Iran: Statistical
Centre of Iran (www.unescap.org/esid/psis/population/popin/profiles/iran/main.htm)
Ireland: Central Statistics Office (www.cso.ie)
Israel: Central
Bureau of Statistics (www.cbs.gov.il/engindex.htm)
Italy: National Institute
of Statistics (www.istat.it/)
Jamaica: Statistical Institute
of Jamaica (www.statinja.com)
Japan: Statistics
Bureau (www.stat.go.jp/english/index.htm)
Jordan: Department
of Statistics (www.dos.gov.jo/dos_home_e/main/index.htm)
Kazakhstan: Agency
on Statistics of the Republic of Kazakhstan (www.stat.kz/)
Korea: Korea National Statistical Office (www.nso.go.kr/eng2006/emain/index.html)
Kosovo: Statistical Office (http://www.ks-gov.net/ESK/eng/)
Kyrgyzstan: National
Statistical Committee (www.stat.kg/English/index.html)
Kuwait: Ministry of Planning,
Statistics and Information (www.mop.gov.kw)
Latvia: Central Statistical
Bureau (http://www.csb.lv/avidus.cfm?lng=en)
Lebanon: Central
Administration of Statistics (www.cas.gov.lb/Index_en.asp)
Lithuania: Statistics Lithuania
(http://www.stat.gov.lt/en/)
Luxembourg: Central
Service for Statistics and Economic Studies (STATEC) (http://www.statec.public.lu/en/)
Macau: Statistics
and Census Service (www.dsec.gov.mo/e_index.html)
Malawi: National Statistical
Office (www.nso.malawi.net)
Malaysia: Department
of Statistics (www.statistics.gov.my)
Malta: National Statistics
Office (www.nso.gov.mt)
Marshall Islands: Marshall
Islands Statistics (www.spc.int/prism/country/mh/stats/Index.htm)
Mauritania: National Office of
Statistics (www.ons.mr)
Mauritius: Central
Statistics Office (http://www.gov.mu/portal/site/cso)
Mexico: National
Institute of Statistics, Geography and Information (www.inegi.gob.mx/inegi/default.asp)
Mongolia: National Statistical
Office (http://www.nso.mn/v2/index2.php)
Montenegro: Statistical
Office (http://www.monstat.cg.yu/EngPrva.htm)
Morocco: Department
of Statistics (http://www.hcp.ma/)
Mozambique: National Institute
of Statistics (http://www.ine.gov.mz/Ingles)
Netherlands: Central Bureau
of Statistics (www.cbs.nl/en-GB/default.htm)
New Zealand: Statistics New Zealand (www.stats.govt.nz/)
Northern Ireland: Statistics
and Research Agency (www.nisra.gov.uk)
Norway: Statistics Norway
(www.ssb.no/english/)
Palestine: Palestinian Central
Bureau of Statistics (http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/)
Panama: Department
of Census and Statistics (www.contraloria.gob.pa)
Paraguay: Direccion General
de Estadistica, Encuestas y Censos (DGEEC) (www.dgeec.gov.py)
Peru: Instituto Nacional de
Estadistica y Information, (INEI) (www.inei.gob.pe)
Philippines: National Statistics
Office (www.census.gov.ph)
Poland: Polish
Official Statistics (www.stat.gov.pl/english/index.htm)
Portugal: National
Institute of Statistics (www.ine.pt/)
Romania: National
Institute of Statistics (www.insse.ro/index_eng.htm)
Russia: State Committee of
the Russian Federation on Statistics (www.gks.ru/eng/)
St Lucia: Central Statistical
Office of St Lucia (www.stats.gov.lc)
Serbia(Formerly Yugoslavia): Statistical
Office (http://webrzs.statserb.sr.gov.yu/axd/en/index.php)
Singapore: Statistics
Singapore (www.singstat.gov.sg)
Slovak Republic: Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic (portal.statistics.sk/showdoc.do?docid=359)
Slovenia: Statistical
Office of the Republic of Slovenia (www.stat.si/eng/index.asp)
South Africa: Statistics
South Africa (www.statssa.gov.za)
Spain: National
Statistics Institute (www.ine.es/en/welcome_en.htm)
Sri Lanka: Department
of Census and Statistics (www.statistics.gov.lk)
Sweden: Statistics
Sweden (www.scb.se/indexeng.asp)
Switzerland: Swiss
Federal Statistical Office (www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/en/index.html)
Taiwan: National
Statistics, Budget and Accounting (http://eng.dgbas.gov.tw/mp.asp?mp=2)
Thailand: National Statistical
Office (http://web.nso.go.th/)
Trinidad and Tobago: Central
Bank (www.central-bank.org.tt)
Tunisia: Institut National
de la Statistique (INS) (www.ins.nat.tn/)
Turkey: State
Institute of Statistics (www.die.gov.tr/ENGLISH/index.html)
United Kingdom: Office
for National Statistics (www.statistics.gov.uk)
United States:
Bureau of Economic Analysis (www.bea.gov/)
Bureau of Justice Statistics (www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs)
Bureau of Labour Statistics (http://stats.bls.gov)
Bureau of Transportation Statistics (www.bts.gov)
Census Bureau (www.census.gov)
Department of Commerce (www.commerce.gov)
FedStats (Gateway to Statistics) (www.fedstats.gov)
National Centre for Health Statistics (www.cdc.gov/nchs)
National Centre for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov)
Uruguay: Instituto Nacional
de Estadistica (INE) (www.ine.gub.uy)
Venezuela:
Instituto Nacional de Estadistica (INE)
(www.ine.gov.ve/ine/indexine.asp)
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4. International organisations
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5. Regional organisations
Africa:
Americas:
Asia:
Oceania:
Europe:
European Union:
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6. Resources on methodology, standards and good
practice in international data
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7. Data visualisation
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