The primary focus of ESDS International is to provide free access to databases that have a subscription charge. In this section, we highlight selected sources of freely available data.

The IGO's are all publicly funded organizations and many of them make their data freely available. In particular the World Health Organisation makes all the data it produced freely available. Data on food and agriculture are available through the FOA website and the Bank for International Settlements (the world's central bank) disseminates global finance statistics. The World Bank, IMF and UN all make small subsets of recent data freely available from their websites. ESDS International has created a Guide to freely available international data resources. This guide also contains links to national statistical office worldwide, and resources on methodology, standards and good practice in the compilation of international data.