LibGuides: Data Sources and Tools: International Sources

Worldometers - World Statistics Updated In Real Time

Check this out: http://www.worldometers.info/

Country Profiles

International Economic Data

Country Rankings

Center for Global Development / Foreign Policy: Commitment to Development Index
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.
Happy Planet: Human Well-Being & Environmental Impact Index
Ranks 178 countries based on the life satisfaction, life expectancy, and ecological footprint exhibited by each country.
OECD Country Risk Ratings
Transparency International - Corruption Perceptions Index
World Bank Governance Indicators

World Bank - A Gold Mine

Free access to international policy and data

International Trade Data

UN Comtrade Database
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.
UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics On-line
This United Nations database provides comprehensive statistics on international trade, investment, and development for individual countries and country groupings.

More Sources of International Data

Human Development [UN] - Data
UNdata - A world of information
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, International
Data Hub
American Economic Assn - Resources for Economists - Data
globalEDGE Statistical Data Sources
UNODC Data Portal
Global Indigenous Data Alliance (GIDA)
GIDA promotes and advances Indigenous sovereignty and governance of data about Indigenous people.

Google Does Data!!!!

Google has developed a dataset search engine. It’s called Google Dataset Search and can be accessed at https://datasetsearch.research.google.com/ Dataset Search links datasets stored across thousands of open data repositories on the Web, making these datasets universally accessible and useful.