Look to the right side of the page for an orange drop down menu. This provides links to the national statistical agencies of a large number of countries, though there are some broken links.

Annually produced by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency

Data from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

From the University of Washington Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research is located at the University of Michigan. Look a "Browse by Thematic Collection" to see the partners of the ICPSR.

From the IMF eLibrary Data, Colgate only subscribes the International Financial Statistics portion of the IMF's available datasets.

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

Find data and create tables, charts, and maps with US and international population data.

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. UNdata also has links to a very large number of national data and statistics organizations and agencies.

Development data for countries and UN projects.

Cross-nationally comparable statistics on education, science and technology, culture, and communication for more than 200 countries and territories.

Data focusing on the well being of women and children.

Data, statistics, and maps from the World Health Organization.

One of the most comprehensive compilations of information on the status of women in the world. The Project facilitates understanding the linkage between the situation of women and the security of nation-states. It combs the extant literature and conducts expert interviews to find qualitative and quantitative information on over 310 indicators of women's status in 174 countries.

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.

This database focuses on the study of happiness, aka "subjective well-being." It contains both an extensive bibliography on the literature of happiness as well as data and surveys on the topic. It is the brainchild of the Dutch sociologist, Ruut Veerhoven, at Erasmus University.

A wide range of data and reference sources on Latin American politics.

The primary source for data and statistics from the Canadian government.

Wide range of Canadian surveys going back to the 1970s, including the Canadian Election Study.

Data, statistical yearbooks, and data visualizations from the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific.

Gateway to a wide variety of Indian environmental science and geospatial data sources.

A social survey designed to chart and explain the interaction between Europe's changing institutions and the attitudes, beliefs and behaviour patterns. Free registration. SAS, SPSS, POR, STATA, Statistica, NSDstat, Dbase, and a variety of delimited text formats downloads. For the data savvy only.

The statistical office of the European Union situated in Luxembourg. Its task is to provide the European Union with statistics at European level that enable comparisons between countries and regions. SPSS downloads.

Focus on European Parliament with data on voters, party manifestos, and political elites.