Business Research

Global Insights provides international business and trade information on over 200 countries, the 50 U.S. states, as well as nearly two dozen industry sectors, and many of the world’s trade blocs. Use the drop-down boxes to find insights, stats, etc. on countries, states, industries, or trade blocs.

The Global Resource Directory offers a rich collection of thousands of international business- and trade-related resources, which we have selected for their content and usability and organized into the categories below to facilitate your research.

A robust directory of resources allows you to find information ranging from culture and economic information to Trade Tutorials, Trade Law or even Statistical Data Sources. Each resource has been reviewed by an experienced team of researchers to ensure utmost utility.

Use this application to browse, analyse, and gain insights from the results of the Global Competitiveness Index at the core of The Global Competitiveness Report series since 2004.

Compare countries on a variety of statistical indicators

Select one or several countries in the menu to see the values for the 6 Hofstede dimensions.

An interactive tool for visualizing economic data, includes enhanced chart capabilities and expanded presentation features.

NationMaster.com allows users to build charts that measure and compare countries on a wide range of information, everything from "Most Taxed" to "Cotton Production." There are stats from the CIA World Factbook, the WHO, World Bank, UN, UNESCO, OECD. Download data, embed graphs and maps

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 1950-2019.

An annual ranking that grades 27 rich nations on how their aid, trade, migration, investment, technology, security, and environmental policies influence the development of poor nations.

Ranks 178 countries based on the life satisfaction, life expectancy, and ecological footprint exhibited by each country.

An indexing study conducted annually by MSU-CIBER to help companies rank 27 Emerging Markets on 8 dimensions. The 8 dimensions are then combined to create an overall market potential index.

331 indicators from the World Development Indicators (WDI) covering 209 countries from 1960

Includes Canadian trade data for Canada and each of the provinces by trading parnter and commodity

This tool makes international trade data and economic complexity indicators available through millions of interactive visualizations.

This is the largest depository of international trade data. It holds over 1.1 billion data records from more that 140 countries. Includes detail on commodities and partner countries. All commodity values expressed in US dollars. Time series date back to 1962.

This United Nations database provides comprehensive statistics on international trade, investment, and development for individual countries and country groupings.

The World Bank with UNCTAD,International Trade Center, United Nations Statistical Division (UNSD) and the WTO developed WITS. This software allows users to access and retrieve information on trade and tariffs.

From WITS (World Integrated Trade Solution), view Canadian monthly trading data.

Information on the country’s geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military and transnational issues is provided.

Market conditions, opportunities, regulations, and business customs for over 125 countries prepared by trade and industry experts at U.S. embassies worldwide.

Eldis aims to share the best in development, policy, practice and research.

A searchable collection of demographic, financial, industrial and trade statistics from the European Union includes country profiles and comparative data across the EU.

Use this application to browse, analyse, and gain insights from the results of the Global Competitiveness Index at the core of The Global Competitiveness Report series since 2004.

As of 1990, the human development concept was applied to a systematic study of global themes, as published in the yearly global Human Development Reports under the auspice of the United Nations Development Programme.

From the UN, this database includes a complete and consistent set of time series of main national accounts aggregates from 1970 onwards.

Key demographic, financial, socio-economic and other statistics on 209 countries that amount to data snapshots.

Each country guide covers a number of key topics such as language, society, culture, food, beliefs, business practices and social etiquette as well as much more.

This site contains data on the investment climate in 98 countries, based on surveys of almost 66,000 firms. Enterprise surveys measure business perceptions of the investment climate and can be used to analyze the link between job creation and productivity growth. Data featured covers over 500 indicators on topics such as bureaucracy, corruption, court systems, crime, finance, infrastructure, innovation, jobs, productivity, taxation, and trade.