Statistics

Provides essential social, economic and financial indicators relating to ADB’s developing members.

Geospatial data, microdata and indicator level data from the World Bank

Eurostat is the statistical office of the European Union situated in Luxembourg. Its mission is to provide statistics at European level that enable comparisons between countries and regions.

Gapminder was founded in Stockholm by Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund and Hans Rosling and acquired by Google in 2007. It collates vast majority of data from UNESCO, FAO, World Bank, ILO, etc. and present them in interactive graphics. See video

International labor statistics including employment, wages, CPI, strikes, labor migration, etc. Refer to ILO for labour force survey and data and issues pertaining to child labour.

These pages feature links to sets constructed by National Bureau of Economic Research authors and feature historical datasets as well links to recent sets related to economic indicators, industry, trade, demographics, and more.

Contains the latest OECD data: charts, maps, tables and related publications by topic and country.

OECD.Stat includes data and metadata for OECD countries and selected non-member economies. Data include fixed capital formation, capital stock, employment and hours, profit, exports/imports, health-care.

UNdata provides access to 32 statistical databases from the United Nations and other international organizations through one interface. Search or browse for data, create tables and download. Areas of coverage include agriculture, education, energy, industry, labor, national accounts, population, tourism and trade. Includes Millennium Development Goals indicators, and UN Key Global Indicators.

The data presented here are the most widely-used, official-source development data from the World Bank and other international agencies, including external debt, GDP, and GNI per capita. You can search by country or indicators.

WDI is the primary World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized international sources.Data include social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators.

provides free and easy access to data provided by International Organisations, such as the World Bank, the United Nations and Eurostat, as such including their metadata (definitions, footnotes…).

provides historical data that goes back to 1951 for energy production and consumption for download in PDF or excel format. BP also has an online Energy Charting Tool.

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) aims to promote policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world. The OECD provides a forum in which governments can work together to share experiences and seek solutions to common problems. it sets international standards on a wide range of things, from agriculture and tax to the safety of chemicals.

An authoritative source for data sets used by United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and its partners in the Global Environment Outlook (GEO) report and other integrated environment assessments. Its online database holds more than 500 different variables, as national, subregional, regional and global statistics or as geospatial data sets (maps), covering themes like Freshwater, Population, Forests, Emissions, Climate, Disasters, Health and GDP. Display them on-the-fly as maps, graphs, data tables or download the data in different formats.

disseminate global environment statistics on ten indicator themes compiled from a wide range of data sources. The themes and indicator tables were selected based on the current demands for international environmental statistics and the availability of internationally comparable data. Indicator tables, charts and maps with relatively good quality and coverage across countries, as well as links to other international sources, are provided under each theme.

provides primary energy production and consumption data for the different countries from 1980 – 2012. Go to their International Energy Statistics and then from the top menu select “Total Energy” > “Total primary Energy consumption” >. For historical data in IEA, you will need to purchase 1,000 data points which costs £45.

Collated by the World Bank, it provides data on emissions & pollution, environment & health, agriculture, forests & biodiversity, energy and water resources.

WRI produces maps, charts, data sets, infographics, and other visual resources pertaining to environmental issues.

The UNODC thematic programme on research, trend analysis and forensics undertakes thematic research programmes, manages global and regional data collections, provides scientific and forensic services, defines research standards, and supports Member States to strengthen their data collection, research and forensics capacity.

Maintains by United Nations University. Contains data in WIID – World Income Inequality Database, SAPI – Social Assistance, Politics and Institutions database and IDLA – Income Distribution in Latin America

Contains detailed trade statistics (import, export) among countries. Time series of data date back to 1962. Commodities are classified according to SITC, the Harmonized System(HS) and Broad Economic Categories (BEC). Discrepancies may arise when you switch “Reporter” and “Partner” country.

provides a collection of statistical data relevant to the analysis of international merchandise and service trade, economic trends, foreign direct investment, external financing sources including remittances, population and labor force, commodities, and maritime transport for individual countries and for economic and trade groupings. Data are presented in an analytical way, through the use of rank orderings, growth rates and other special calculations, with a view to facilitate their interpretation. Click here for historical data between 1900-1960.

FOREIGN TRADE is the official source for U.S. export and import statistics and responsible for issuing regulations governing the reporting of all export shipments from the United States.

A free map portal that allows you to examine political risk in 162 emerging economies, considering risks in: exchange transfer, sovereign non-payment, political interference, supply chain disruption, legal & regulatory risk, political violence, risk of doing business, banking sector vulnerability and inability of government to provide stimulus. You need to register your email for a verification code to access the portal. The data is powered from Roubini Global Economics.

Information on history, population, economy, government, infrastructure and military of 267 countries.

looks at open and accountable governance in countries and communities around the world through Global Integrity Report, Africa Integrity Indicators, Money, Politics and Transparency and Local Integrity Initiatives.

Maintains by Migration Policy Institute (MPI). The Data Hub showcases the most current national and state-level demographic, social, and economic facts about immigrants to the United States; as well as stock, flow, citizenship, net migration, and historical data for countries in Europe, North America, and beyond.

Every country that is party to the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention has an interest in ensuring that all parties live up to their obligations. These country monitoring reports contain recommendations formed from rigorous examinations of each country.

a non-profit independent organisation that works together with governments, businesses and citizens to stop the abuse of power, bribery and secret deals through chapters in more than 100 countries and an international secretariat in Berlin, It provides annual indexes, report and data pertaining to corruption from various facets from bribery, public procurement, barriers to basic necessities and resources, barriers to education, etc. Some of the indicators are Bribe Payers Index, Corruption Perceptions Index, Global Corruption Barometer.

measures the quality of a country in more holistic way [than GNP] and believe the beneficial development of human society takes place not only with material growth but also to non-economic aspects of wellbeing. GNH was first coined by the Fourth King of Bhutan and has often been indexed by four indicators : good governance, sustainable socio-economic development, cultural preservation, and environmental conservation.

allows you to compare well-being across countries, based on 11 topics identified as essential, in the areas of material living conditions and quality of life.

is used to detect the relation between personality traits and positive or negative affects at a moment. PANAS is a two ten-item questionnaire, which uses a five-point Likert scale (1 = very slightly or not at all, 5 = extremely).

A global cognitive assessment of life satisfaction. The SWLS requires a person to use a seven-item scale to state their agreement or disagreement (1 = strongly disagree, 4 = neither agree nor disagree, 7 = strongly agree) with five statements about their life.

A four-item scale, measuring global subjective happiness. The scale requires participants to use absolute ratings to characterize themselves as happy or unhappy individuals, as well as it asks to what extent they identify themselves with descriptions of happy and unhappy individuals.

Erasmus Happiness Economics Research Organization (EHERO) is a scientific institute where happiness is studied. Register of scientific research on the subjective enjoyment of life and includes data collected for various countries.