Statistics and Data

Research and data collected and published with the aim of helping to make progress against the world’s largest problems. Covers around 300 topics.

Provides access to statistical websites from foreign and international government organizations. This list is maintained by a librarian at Purdue University.

This guide, presented by the Data & Information Services Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, provides links to country statistical yearbooks or similar collections (census, "facts and figures," etc.) for 154 countries worldwide.

Eurostat is the statistical office of the European Union. This website provides easy access to sub-national data for Europe.

The Global Data Lab (GDL) is an independent data and research center at the Nijmegen School of Management of Radboud University. Building upon over 500 household survey datasets from the major data providers for low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), GDL has built one of the largest existing databases for LMICs, containing information on over 35 million individuals in 130+ countries. INCLUDES SUBNATIONAL DATA.

The OECD Regions and Cities Statistical Atlas is a web-platform that allows visualising maps and charts for a wide range of statistical indicators at the subnational scale, all of which are downloadable in CSV format. The available indicators, which are also available in the OECD statistical portal, cover crucial demographic, social, economic and environmental topics. While most indicators are primarily available for OECD member countries, a sub-set of indicators on population, builtup area and air quality have a global coverage that includes all the cities (and their commuting zones) in the world of at least 50 000 inhabitants.

OECD publishes datasets, indicators, and statistical book series on a wide range of topics.

Includes data and metadata for OECD countries and selected non-member economies.

Find, compare and share data, charts, maps, tables and related publications on OECD countries and selected non-member economies.

UNdata pools major UN databases and those of several international agencies into one single internet environment. The innovative design allows a user to access a large number of UN databases either by browsing the data series or through a keyword search.

This website provides access to data and indicators associated with the UN's Human Development Report.

FAOSTAT, the Statistics Division of the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, provides access to data for 245 countries and 35 regional areas from 1961 through the most recent year available.

The Microdata Library is a collection of datasets from the World Bank and other international, regional and national organizations. Users need to create an account to access the data and may need to create additional accounts when using data hosted by other agencies.

NationMaster is a vast compilation of data from hundreds of sources.

Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) is the world’s main provider of data on organized violence and the oldest ongoing data collection project for civil war.

Ready-to-use data for over 90 countries from over 300 surveys covering the topics of demographics, health, and nutrition. The DHS Program is a USAID-funded project implemented by ICF International.

Dataset Search is a search engine for datasets. Using a simple keyword search, users can discover datasets hosted in thousands of repositories across the Web.