World and non-US data
World data, indices, country studies, and more.
Indices
- Econ. Departments, Institutes and Research Centers in the World (EDIRC): Central Banks and Monetary Authorities
- Econ. Departments, Institutes and Research Centers in the World (EDIRC): Statistical Offices
- NationMaster.com - compare variety of data across countries
- Social Science Data Archives - general listing of social science databases
World data
- AllThatStats.com - data from major international providers
- Consensus Economics - US and international consensus forecasts
- DBnomics - more than 500 million series from 60 providers
- EIU CountryData - 271 mostly quarterly series from 116 countries
- Global Financial Data - historical finance, price, and foreign exchange data
- Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC) Total Economy Database - free GDP and other data for many countries for many years
- IPUMS - consistent US and non-US census and CPS microdata
- LIS (formerly Luxembourg Income Study) - households survey from 25 countries and macro data from OECD countries
- OANDA - current and historical exchange rates
- NationMaster.com - compare variety of data across countries
- PACIFIC Exchange Rate Service Retrieval Interface - current and historical exchange rates
- Penn World Table (PWT) - consistent international data
- PRS Online Country Data - purchase current and historical data from 144 countries
- QuERI-International - industrial demographic data
- Statistical Review of World Energy (BP) - world energy data
- Vizala - combines vast wealth of data into very useable formats
- The World Economy: Historical Statistics (Angus Madisson)
Reports
Country studies
- BMI Research - emerging market risk reports with company and industry profiles
- CIA World Factbook - well-known summary data and analysis
- CountryReports.org - free country reports
- CountryWatch.com - both free and fee-based reports
- Economist Intelligence Unit - perhaps the leader in this area
- KOF Index of Globalization - 3 indices of globalization
Indices of economic freedom and corruption
International organizations
- Asian Development Bank
- Bank for International Settlements (BIS)
- Eurostat
- Inter-American Development Bank
- International Trade Centre UNCTAD/WTO (ITC)
- Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
- International Monetary Fund (IMF)
- Paris Club
- U.N. Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
- U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
- U.N. Statistics Division
- World Bank
- World Trade Organization (WTO)
Asia
- indiastat.com
- Statistics Indonesia
- Bank of Japan
- Statistics Bureau and Statistics Center (Japan)
- NIKKEI Economic Electronic Databank System (NEEDS)
- National Statistical Office of Korea
Canada
Austria and Eastern Europe
- Austrian and Eastern European Economic Data (WIFO)
- Hungarian Central Statistical Office
- SEE Macro History Database - macro variables for South-Eastern Europe
Finland
France
Germany
Luxembourg
Netherlands
- Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB)
- Netherlands Central Bank
- Statistics Netherlands