International Data
Country or Region Specific Data
Other World Data Resources

This is a selective list. Statistical data may be found in many other places, including books and journal articles, in print, on microfilm, on CD-ROMs, and online. You may find them as:

• Preformatted tables
• Online interactive datasets that allow you to create custom tables to print or download
• Maps or atlases
• Raw data that needs to be downloaded and imported into statistical analysis software. These kinds of data typically require you to read the data dictionary, which explains what the coded variables actually represent, and construct your own formulas to create the statistics you need.

Techniques for locating statistics include:

• Find a book or journal article about your topic, and check the sources that they used.
• Search the Library Catalog for STATISTICS and words that describe your topic

Public Opinion Data may appear in some of the resources below, but also check our Public Opinion Subject Guide.

If you have questions as you are working, please click on the Ask a librarian icon.  We will be happy to work with you.

Search the Library Catalog for STATISTICS and words that describe your topic, e.g. POPULATION STATISTICS, or CHINA COMMERCE STATISTICS, or CANCER STATISTICS.

Geographic search tips:

• Sources that cover multiple regions have no geographic subject headings, e.g. International Petroleum Monthly simply has the subject heading: PETROLEUM INDUSTRY AND TRADE STATISTICS
• Sources that cover one region or country and it's political/geographical subdivisions will typically have subject headings just for the country or region, e.g. China Data Online has the subject heading: CHINA STATISTICS, event though it contains regional and city data

Keyword Author Title Subject Call Number

LexisNexis Statistical
Coverage: varies. The primary source for finding statistics of all kinds, particularly regarding the United States.

UNdata
UNdata is the United Nations Data Access System which provides access to current, relevant and reliable statistics. Some data goes back 60 years. The domains covered are agriculture, education, energy, industry, labour, national accounts, population and tourism. You can also find indicators such as Millennium Development Goals.

UN Development Programme Open Data
Data includes expenditures for development activities and development coordination, as extracted from the UNDP general  ledger, but due to the global nature of the organization and differences in reporting transactions, some inconsistencies may be found. Development activities is a UN system agreed classification that includes costs classified as either programmes or development effectiveness activities, both of which contribute to the effective delivery of development results. This data therefore does not include all expenditures involving funds administered by UNDP. In some cases, negative balances are seen when projects are managed at the award or fund level. Information organized by country or project.

Data (World Bank)
Recognizing that transparency and accountability are essential to development, the World Bank Group provides free access to its comprehensive set of data on living standards around the globe--some 2,000 indicators, including hundreds that go back 50 years. The data is available in Arabic, French, and Spanish in addition to English.

NationMaster.com
Coverage: current. Allows users to generate graphs based on numerical data extracted from the CIA World Factbook and other sources.

ICPSR
The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), located within the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, is a membership-based, not-for-profit organization serving member colleges and universities in the United States and abroad. Colgate is a member and data not available on the Internet can be requested from the University representative. Inquire in the Economics Department. Although the majority of the data deal with the U.S., significant data sets are available for other countries.  It is recommended that new users review the Data Use Tutorial provided by ICPSR
Population Reference Bureau DataFinder
PRB focuses on four core themes: Reproductive Health and Fertility; Children and Families; Population and the Environment; and Population Futures - Aging, Inequality and Poverty, Migration and Urbanization, and Gender.

World factbook
Annually produced by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency

FAOSTAT
FAOSTAT provides time-series and cross sectional  data relating to food and agriculture for some 200 countries.

International Financial Statistics
Coverage: 1900-present. Provides time series data for balance of payments,banking, exchange rates, interest rates, employment, and other economic concepts. (note: there are multiple libraries of data at the IMF eLibrary site - Colgate only subscribes to the International Financial Statistics - we do not subscribe to the other data libraries)

Basic Country Health Profiles for the Americas.
The Pan American Health Organization provides this information.

UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Global and internationally comparable statistics on education, science, technology, culture and communication.

Infonation
From the United Nations, information on population, health, economy, and technology by country. Not as detailed or historical as UNData. Data displayed as bar chart

Statistical Yearbook (UN)
Print (1948- ): Case Ref & Case Main HA12.5 U63 LASR CD-ROM (1982-2002): HA12.5 .U632 online: connect to online - editions available may vary

IPUMS (Integrated Public Use Microdata Series)
Census microdata for social and economic research. IPUMS-International is a new project dedicated to collecting and distributing census data from around the world.  At the IPUMS site - the Integrated Health Interview Series is also available.

Demographic Yearbook (UN)
Print (1948- ) Case Ref & Case Main HA17 .D45 LASR CD-ROM: HA17 .D452 (historical suplement 1948- 97)

GEOHIVE Global Statistics
A site with geopolitical data, statistics on the human population, Earth and more. The main kind of data you can find here is on the population of regions, countries, provinces and cities.

Office of Population Research at Princeton University
The archive at the Office of Population Research contains links to a number of datasets they have collected as well as the ability to search within their collection. The collections are rich in both foreign and US data.

World Population Profile
From the U.S. Census Bureau: 1998 is the latest published compendium and analysis of data on population, fertility, mortality, contraceptive use and related demographic topics by the U.S. Census Bureau. The Special Focus section of the report provides an update on one of the fundamental international health and demographic events of our time--the worldwide HIV/AIDS pandemic.

International Data Base (IDB)
From the U.S. Census Bureau, a computerized data bank containing statistical tables of demographic, and socio-economic data for 227 countries and areas of the world.

Childhood Under Threat: The State of the World's Children
From UNICEF, includes a statistics' tool that allows you to organize and display development indicators and reports. Data in custom tables from 2005- .

World Health Organization Statistical Information System
The WHO Statistical Information System is the guide to health and health-related epidemiological and statistical information available from the World Health Organization. Most WHO technical programmes make statistical information available, and they will be linked from here. You also have the possibility to search by keywords within the WHOSIS or throughout the entire WHO site.

The resources listed above are a relative few of the many available on every topic. The following websites may lead you to other data sources.

Scholars' Lab Digital Resources at the University of Virginia

Statistical Resources on the Web (from the University of Michigan Documents Center)

EconData.net

Data on the Net
From the University of California, San Diego, a searchable database of data resources on the Internet.

CISER (Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research)

United States Specific data