Statistics

The European Union's searchable collection of EU country and regional statistics. Can also browse by broad themes, including 'Sustainable Development' indicators.

Pulls statistics on topics related to globalization from many sources.

Links to official statistical sources. Maintained by UNECE.

Online atlas provides variety of data for each country is visual format. Also includes country rankings. Some data and features are available only through subscription, but a lot is free. Export data in a variety of formats and embed tables and maps on websites.

Also available as iPhone app.

Massive searchable collection of statistics from many UN agencies, plus some international agencies such as the OECD. Includes handy brief country profiles from the World Statistics Pocketbook. Use the Advanced Search option, under the 'More' link, for more precise searching.

Lists selected sources for international statistics on a variety of topics. Includes sources from outside the UN also.

Search over 7,000 indicators by topic, indicator, or country. Can also search for country groups (e.g. 'Least developed') and regions.

Basic demographic and business statistics.

Growing collection of 'raw' numeric and geospatial data files from US federal government agencies, plus apps for working with the data.

Visualize data on US locations, occupations, industries and education from sources like the American Community Survey, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Four broad categories of statistics for England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland: population and migration, economy, social indicators and environment.

Compare two countries by broad category, e.g. 'education'. Can be slow to download.

Includes US and international statistics; American stats are broken down to the city level. Compare many places for one indicator to produce a customizable Ranked List, Trend Line, Stacked or Horizontal Bar Chart, or Map.

Locate country comparisons for many topics. Arranged from broad to narrower topics.

Browse through the 300 most popular indicators in the World Bank's databank. Arranged in broad subjects such as 'gender'. Covers 216 economies, since 1960. Can expand to 1,000 indicators on this easy-to-use site, or link out to the full World DataBank which has 7,000 indicators.