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STATISTICAL DATA and
INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION CODES/TRADE STANDARDS:

• LEXIS NEXIS STATISTICAL (UW RESTRICED) to locate statistical data sources.
  (This is an INDEX W/ ABSTRACTS of statistical data sources.).

• Guides to Statistical Data:
  • Statistical Resources on the Web. by the U. of Michigan Library, Documents Center.
  • Statistical Data by Edwin Ginn Library, The Fletcher School, Tufts University.

• Primary Data Sources:
  • International Financial Statistics (IFS)(UW RESTRICTED)
    by the Inter. Monetary Fund. "The IFS database contains approx. 32,000 time series covering more than 200 countries and areas and includes all series appearing on the IFS country pages; exchange rate series for all Fund member countries, plus Aruba and the Netherland Antilles: major Fund account series; and most other world, area, and country series from the IFS World Tables."

  • SourceOECD (UW RESTRICTED)
    supplies timeseries statistical data available to download, view, and print plus also full-text Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) copies of many OECD and IEA publications. See also a way to access and download MS. Excel tables from within .pdf copies of publications using "StatLink".
    OECD.Stat is a new source for OECD Statistics which is available from within SourceOECD.
    More OECD statistical resources.
    NB: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Developement (OECD) studies deal primarily with developed countries and to a lesser extent, developing countries.

  • UN DATA.
    Provides statistical time series data available to view, download, and print for a wide range of countries. Note: Has replaced the United Nations Common Database.
    • Other United Nations information is found below.
    WORLD BANK
    
    • World Development Indicators (WDI Online) (UW RESTRICTED)
      Supplies excellent worldwide statistics as compiled by the World Bank.
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      The print version of World development indicators 1997- HC59.15 .W656 can be found in many UW Libraries' locations.
      
    • Data Finder "allows access to key development data all in one place. Use world maps to visualize and compare 17 key development indicators, such as life expectancy and CO2 emissions, country-by-country and year-by-year."
    • See also Global Development Finance (GDF Online) (UW RESTRICTED) for debt and credit positions of countries. There are also print versions of Global development finance 1997- and the preceeding title World debt tables 1971-1996 in the UW Libraries.
    • Other World Bank information is found below.

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• Mixed Governmental and Non-Governmental International Data Sources:
  • Global Financial Data (UW RESTRICTED) "Data is a collection of financial and economic data provided in ASCII or Excel format. Data includes: long-term historical indices on stock markets; Total Return data on stocks, bonds, and bills; interest rates; exchange rates; inflation rates; bond indices; commodity indices and prices; consumer price indices; gross domestic product; individual stocks; sector indices; treasury bill yields; wholesale price indices; and unemployment rates covering over 200 countries." [Some of the data is from governmental sources.]

  • Penn World Table "The Penn World Table provides purchasing power parity and national income accounts converted to international prices for 188 countries for some or all of the years 1950-2004." By the Center for International Comparisons of Production, Income and Prices, Univ. of Pennsylvania.
  • Trade Statistics [International].
  • UT [Texas] Library ONLINE, Statistics and Demographics, by the University of Texas Library. Free, excellent, easy to use links to interactive electronic statistical data. Not all sources are from IGO's or governmental sources, nor are they all available to University of Washington users.

• AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES, FORESTRY and related data from the UN Food and Agricuture Organization.

• CHILD LABOR STATISTICS and RESEARCH:
  
  • Inter. Labour Organization's International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour: IPEC. On the left side of this page see the links to "Child Labour Statistics" and "Subject Areas". Use IPEC Search to do more complex searches for IPEC research results.
  • Understanding Children's Work, an Inter-Agency Research Cooperation Project by the Innocenti Research Centre (ILO, UNICEF, WORLD BANK GROUP).

• CITY STATISTICS:
  [NOTE: Many of these websites and some of the statistics are not from governmental sources.]
  
  • UNData In UNData search: city population
    You will find data for larger cities and urban areas, when available.

  • CITY POPULATION. "...you'll find statistics and maps about the population of the major agglomerations of the world. For many countries, information about the population of their administrative areas and the principal cities is provided."
    
  • "Prices and Earnings", a UBS report. A comparison of purchasing power around the globe. by the UBS (Union Bank of Switzerland, a Non-Governmental Source). Note: Scroll down to find this title.
  • U.S. Department of State, Quarterly Report Indexes Of Living Costs Abroad, Quarters Allowances, and Hardship Differentials, from 1997- . For earlier issues in the UW Libraries click here S 1.76/4
  • See Also the Cities Alliance Conslutative Group.
  • Related IGO: UN Habitat.

• COUNTRY STATISTICS:
  Note that most online and print data sources listed on this "Statistical Data" page also contain statistics about countries.
  
  • Africa:
    
    • Africa development indicators [electronic resource] by the World Bank.
    • Africa Region Sources of Data. Comprehensive webpage of World Bank statistics regarding Africa.
  • INFONATION (UN). (Foreign National Government Statistics). "InfoNation is an easy-to-use, two-step database that allows you to view and compare the most up-to-date statistical data for the Member States of the United Nations."
  • OECD (Statistics are mostly for developed countries). Please note that most OECD documents cover all 30 member countries. Also look for the many print OECD publications in the UW Libraries Catalog and in the online text and data resource, SourceOECD.
    • Country Statistical Profiles
    • OECD Member Countries
  See also GENERAL COUNTRY REFERENCE: OFFICIAL IGO and UNOFFICIAL WEBSITES

• CRIMINAL LAW and STATISTICS (Note: Only some links lead to statistics.)

• DEMOGRAPHICS:
  
  • United Nations Common Database (UW RESTRICTED).
  • United Nations Statistics Division and United Nations, Population Division.

• ELECTIONS and PARLIAMENTARY information.

• ENERGY:
  
  • International Energy Agency (IEA), within SourceOECD.
  • International Energy Agency (IEA) Statistics and Balances direct page.

• EUROSTAT, the Statistical Office of the European Union. Access is now FREE from Oct. 1, 2004.

• FAMILIES:
  
  • OECD Family Database "....in view of the strong demand for cross-national indicators on the situation of families and children, the OECD has developed an on-line database on family outcomes and family policies with indicators for all OECD countries." This is very much "Under Construction".

• FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT (FDI):
  
  • UNCTAD
    • UNCTAD, World Investment Report, 1991- HG4538 .W67 In Print in the UW Libraries or online World Investment Reports 1991 - [latest]. "Each year´s Report covers the latest trends in foreign direct investment around the World and analyses in depth one selected topic related to foreign direct investment and development."
      See also Search by country/economy.
    • World Investment Directory. or for print copy World Investment Directory. "The World Investment Directory provides detail information about foreign direct investment in a country, comprising detail statistics on flows, stocks and TNC operations, disaggregated by components, industry and investor/recipient country.
    • UNCTAD FDI webpage and don't miss "About FDI Data" and the sub-category "Interactive Statistics".
    • Investments: Treaties and Agreements.
  • Click on OECD.stat. You will be in SourceOECD. Click on OECD.stat to start it, then look under "Globalisation" for FDI data.
    
  • See Also LEXIS NEXIS STATISTICAL (UW RESTRICED) to locate additional statistical data sources.

• GenderStats, databases of Gender Statistics by the World Bank.

• GEO Data Portal "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 400 different variables, as national, subregional, regional and global statistics or as geospatial data sets (maps), covering themes like Freshwater, Population, Forests, Emissions, Climate, Disasters, Health and GDP. Display them on-the-fly as maps, graphs, data tables or download the data in different formats."

• HEALTH:
  
  • WHO Statistical Information System (WHOSIS) "Evidence and Information for Health Policy. The WHO Statistical Information System is the guide to health and health-related epidemiological and statistical information available from the World Health Organization. Most WHO technical programmes make statistical information available, and they will be linked from here. You also have the possibility to search by keywords within the WHOSIS or throughout the entire WHO site."
  • World Health Statistics provided by "globalhealth.gov" a service of the Office of Global Health Affairs, U.S., Department of Health and Human Services. Links are provided to many international health reports.

• INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
  See the centralized "Data and Statistics" webpage.
  Some of the Primary IMF data resources included are:
  • Interntional Financial Statistics (IFS)(UW RESTRICTED) online.
    NOTE: Also held in CDROM and in Print in Government Publications, Suzzallo Lib.
    "The IFS database contains approx. 32,000 time series covering more than 200 countries and areas and includes all series appearing on the IFS country pages; exchange rate series for all Fund member countries, plus Aruba and the Netherland Antilles: major Fund account series; and most other world, area, and country series from the IFS World Tables."
    
  • IMF Datamapper, based on the IMF's World Economic Outlook (WEO). Print editions of the WEO can be found in the UW Libraries collection by clicking here.
    
  • See also the IMF's general Data and Statistics page.

• MIGRATION and REFUGEES:
  
  • United Nations:
    
    • International Migration major international migration page by the UN.
    • World Migrant Stock.... by UN, Dept of economic and Social affairs, Population Div.
    • Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):
      
      • UNHCR, Statistcs webpage.
      • UNHCR Statistical Online Population Database.
  • International Organization for Migration.

• OECD, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
  • See the UW Libraries Catalog for print/electronic and SourceOECD (UW RESTRICTED) for downloadable OECD statistical data and full-text print and online electronic copies of many OECD Publications. SourceOECD covers developed and to a lesser extent, developing countries.
  • OECD, Development Co-operation Directorate (DCD-DAC): click on "Statistics" to find descriptions of OECD statistical sources on debt, development assistance, development indicators, and much more! Note that some free information is found here, but that the UW Libraries has purchased many of these fee based print and electronic sources (Web based, CD/Diskettes).
    *See this new aid database QWIDS, Query Wizard for International Development Statistics.
    
    More OECD statistical resources:
    
  • OECD Statistics Portal:
    • OECD Factbook eXplorer. Also in the UW Libraries in print and other electronic formats at OECD factbook : economic, environmental and social statistics.
    • OECD eXplorer "is a leading edge tool for exploring and analysing regional statistics, using a very interactive interface that combines maps with other visual presentations for selecting the groups of regions of interest to the user."
    • OECD Frequently Requested Statistics
    • OECD Key Tables(beta) (Precompiled frequently requested data)
    • OECD Glossary of Statistical Terms
    • OECD Index of Statistical Variables
    • OECD Worldwide Statistical Sources.

• SOCIAL SECURITY:
  • Social Security Database "The Social Security DataBase is composed of statistically usable variables (categories, numerical values, etc.) on the basis of a global source containing a textual description of such programmes." Provided by the Social Security Department of the ILO.
    See also the Global Socio-Economic Security Database. NOTE: Partial Limited Access.

• TRADE STATISTICS [International] and TARIFF INFORMATION:
  • UN Commodity Trade Statistics Database (UN Comtrade) (UW Restricted), is the most comphrehensive source for world trade data.
  • "TRADE", Basic trade resources compiled by Government Publications, UW Libraries.
  • World Trade Organization:
    • International trade and tariff data.

  • Trade Data Online "provides the ability to generate customized reports on Canada's and U.S. trade with over 200 countries" by Statistics Canada.
    Note: Trade statistics between U.S. States and Canadian Provinces is a notable feature of this database!
  • UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD):
    • Digital library of UNCTAD publications, CD-ROMs and On-line data sources
    • INFO COMM, market Information in the Commodities Area by UNCTAD.
      
    • Statistical databases on-line
  • [United Nations and WTO] International Trade Centre ...."As the development partner for small business export success, ITC’s goal is to help developing and transition countries achieve sustainable human development through exports." ....
• WESTERN HEMISPHERE TRADE:
  
  • Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA-ALCA).
  • SICE, Foriegn Trade Information System "the OAS Trade Unit’s Foreign Trade Information System, makes available information about hemispheric [Western] integration and trade trends."

OTHER TRADE RESOURCES:

• Commodity Trade Classification Codes in the UN Classifications Registry.
• European Union:
  • European Union international and Europe limited trade resources: Market Access Database, European Union exporters' guide to cracking world market, provides worldwide databases of summary trade statistics, sectoral and trade barriers, and studies. Other parts of this website are password protected by the E.U.
• Export processing zones [related: Free trade areas] "In 2006 and early 2007, the ILO conducted a wide survey of available sources. The results are found in a database (pdf, 971k) which reflects and updates the information received with the respective sources, most of which are Internet-based."
• "ITCS International Trade by Commodity Statistics" found in SourceOECD (UW Restricted)
• United States Government:
  
  • Export.gov, A Basic Guide to Exporting portal. Has extensive information about countries and marketing U.S. products to them. See the Site Map for access to this extensive website. Don't miss The Virtual World Trade Reference Room and TradeStats Express.

TARIFF INFORMATION:

• International Customs Tariffs Bureau (BITD)
• TARIFF information on the web see World Customs Organization. Click on Customs Web Site for individual country's customs tariffs websites. Note: English not always available and may not include a full database of tariff information.
  
• Tariff and Tax Information, Country and Regional Tariff and Tax Resources. "This page contains country specific tariff and tax information, as well as internet links to online sources. Click on desired country for information. If your country is not listed, please call an International Trade Specialist at 1-800-USA-TRADE." Provided by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, International Trade Administration, Trade Information Center.
  
• European Union:
  TARIC Home Page providing E.U. tariff information.