Country profiles include information on geography, people, government, economy, energy, communications, transportation, military and security, and transnational issues.

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

Dataset Search enables users to find datasets stored across the Web through a simple keyword search. The tool surfaces information about datasets hosted in thousands of repositories across the Web, making these datasets universally accessible and useful.

Listing of thematic collections in ICPSR.

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.

Site of a number of Population Databases and Datasets

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.

From the University of Washington Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

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

Complete list of WHO's public data collections

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

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

The overarching objective of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group is to spur sustainable economic development and social progress in its regional member countries (RMCs), thus contributing to poverty reduction.

A resource which makes development data more visual. Uses many data sources such as the OECD, Worldbank, ILO, etc.

SEDAC is part of the Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) of NASA, and it is hosted by Columbia Univeristy. SEDAC focuses on human interactions in the environment. Its mission is to develop and operate applications that support the integration of socioeconomic and Earth science data and to serve as an "Information Gateway" between the Earth and social sciences.

The Environmental Data Explorer is the authoritative source for data sets used by 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.

Data focusing on the well being of women and children.

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.

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.

The ECOTOXicology database (ECOTOX) is a source for locating single chemical toxicity data for aquatic life, terrestrial plants and wildlife. ECOTOX was created and is maintained by the U.S.EPA, Office of Research and Development (ORD) , and the National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory\'s (NHEERL\'s) Mid-Continent Ecology Division (MED). ECOTOX integrates three previously independent databases - AQUIRE, PHYTOTOX, and TERRETOX - into a unique system which includes toxicity data derived predominately from the peer-reviewed literature, for aquatic life, terrestrial plants, and terrestrial wildlife, respectively.

The DOE Data Explorer (DDE) is the Office of Scientific and Technical Information's (OSTI) search tool for finding DOE-funded, publicly available, scientific data submitted by data centers, repositories, and other organizations funded by the Department. DDE includes data Project, data Collection, and individual Dataset records.