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Agriculture

• AMAD: Agricultural Market Access Database  Includes tariff rates, exchange rates, import statistics, world reference prices, and other data.
• FAOSTAT Includes all statistical databases of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
• UN/ECE Timber Database  Provides data on forest resources and their utilization in North America, Europe, and the Former Soviet Republics.
• WFP in Statistics  Represents official statistical information on World Food Programme activities, including data on expenditures, food shipments, resources, transport and staff.
  

Arms Control

• SIPRI Military Expenditure Database  Provides military expenditures by country in local currency, in constant U.S. dollars, and as a percentage of GDP. User registration is required.

Children

• The Progress of Nations. This source from UNICEF ranks the nations of the world according to their achievements in child health, nutrition, education, family planning, and progress for women.
  1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000
• State of the World's Children. This UNICEF publication addresses the social, economic, and political developments impacting children. Statistical data on health, nutrition, and education, as well as economic and demographic indicators, are provided for all countries. 
  1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001
• Statistical Data from UNICEF  Provides national data on infant and maternal mortality, vaccinations, oral rehydration, malnutrition, breastfeeding, school enrollment, and adult literacy.

Crime

• International Study on Firearm Regulation  Includes data collected in 1997 and 1999 from countries on topics such as criminal cases, accidents, and suicides in which firearms are involved.
• Estimated World Requirements for Narcotic Drugs Provides statistics on the availability of narcotics for both illicit and medical purposes. 
• Statistics and Research Sources from the United Nations Crime and Justice Information Network.
• United Nations Surveys of Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems Includes data sets for 1970 to 1997.

Economic Development

• CHASS Data Centre  Includes databases from many IGOs and Canadian governmental sources.  Focuses on economic and financial data.

• Country Information Sheets on Health, Nutrition, Population, and Poverty  Provide statistics concerning intra-country differences between rich and poor with respect to HNP service and use.

• Exchange Rates for Selected Currencies  Find today's exchange rates to the eighth decimal point.

• Financial Data and Resource Locators  Provides an enormous selection of links to information on international finance, banking, and stocks exchanges.

• Key Indicators of Developing Asian and Pacific Countries  Part I compares the developing countries of the region on selected social, economic, and financial indicators, while Part II presents time-series data for each country.
  1999 | 2000 | 2001

• OECD Statistics  Provides a broad array of social, economic, and environmental statistics. Some data is limited to OECD member nations.

• Penn World Tables: An Expanded Set of International Comparisons  One of the richest sources of international statistics on the Internet, the Penn World Tables cover 152 countries and 29 broad subject areas.

• Poverty Monitoring Database  Includes income/consumption surveys, data from World Bank poverty assessments, poverty assessment summaries, social indicator tables, news on upcoming statistical activities, and related links.

• Social Indicators  Includes data on population, youth and the elderly, housing, water supply and sanitation, health, childbearing, education, literacy, income, and unemployment from the UN Statistics Division.

• Statistics and Quantitative Analysis Unit, Inter-American Development Bank  Includes Web-based databases and statistics for the Americas and American nations.

• World Economic Outlook Database  Presents several types of GDP data, as well as statistics on inflation, for all countries, advanced economies, and developing countries.

• World Income Inequality Database  Collects and stores information on income inequality for developed, developing, and transition countries in an easily retrievable, exportable, and analyzable format.

Environment

• GRID: Global Resource Information Database  Provides a wide range of environmental, ecological, and geographical data sets. Those that cannot be downloaded directly are described in detail and may be requested.
• State of the Planet: Sources of Near-real-time information on the state of the planetary environment  Presents data from environmental observation sources.

Health

• Cancer Mondial   CANM brings together several key statistical databases on cancer. While the emphasis is on Europe, some of the databases cover other regions as well.
• Health for All Statistical Database (HFA-DB)  Contains data on key international health statistics for the World Health Organization's European Region.
• Tobacco Free Initiative  Addresses the tobacco pandemic from many angles, supporting its positions with both popular and scholarly material.
• WHO Statistical Information System  WHOSIS is the World Health Organization's most extensive statistical database.

Humanitarian Aid

• OECD Development Assistance Committee Statistics  DAC statistics measure the flow of aid and other financial resources to aid recipients.
• WFP in Statistics  Represents official statistical information on World Food Programme activities, including data on expenditures, food shipments, resources, transport and staff.
  1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999

Labor

• ILM (International Labour Migration Statistics)  The ILM database provides data on citizenship, employment, immigrant laborers, and nationals working abroad for up to five countries simultaneously.
• LABORSTA  This database provides statistics on employment, wages, job-related injuries, and strikes and lockouts for all countries.

Migration and Refugees

• Asylum data for Australia, Canada, the United States, and many Western European countries.  Covers 1992 to the present.
• ILM (International Labour Migration Statistics)  The ILM database provides data on citizenship, employment, immigrant laborers, and nationals working abroad for up to five countries simultaneously. Its main limitation is that the user must conduct more than one search in order to gather data on more than one variable.

Population

• World Population Estimates and Projections  These estimates and projections provide the standard set of population figures that are used throughout the United Nations system.

• FAOSTAT  Search the POPULATION domain to find current data and projections.

• Population Date Sheet: Population and Development Indicators for Asia and the Pacific  Includes demographic and social indicators by regions, subregions, and country.
  

• Reproductive Health Indicators  This bibliographic and statistical database is an indispensable source of information on abortion, sexually transmitted diseases, and related topics in Asia and the Pacific.

• State of World Population Indicators  Find data for more than forty demographic and socioeconomic variables by region, subregion, and country. 

• World Population Trends  Provides data on fertility, mortality, family planning, population policies, and world population estimates and projections. 

Trade

• SIMA-External  This World Bank database provides a wide range of socioeconomic, financial, environmental, and health-related data for 1960 to the present.
• Asia and the Pacific in Figures  Provides a brief statistical overview for fifty-six countries or areas. This source lacks some of the content available in its print-format counterpart. The most recent edition (1999) is not online.
• CHASS Data Centre  Includes databases from many IGOs and Canadian governmental sources.  Focuses on economic and financial data.
• Data by Topic  On this site, the World Bank provides statistics for all countries in twenty-three subject areas.
• InfoNation  Though designed for children, this two-step database is a good source for any user seeking basic geographic, demographic, economic, and social statistics about a small number of countries.
• International Statistical Agencies  Consists of links to the statistical offices of intergovernmental organizations; the national statistical offices of Canada, the U.S., European nations, and the Former Soviet Republics; and other sources. 
• Island Directory: Basic Environmental and Geographic Information on the Significant Islands of the World  Presents data for more than 2000 islands.
• LABORSTA, the Labour Statistics Database operated by the International Labour Organization's Bureau of Statistics.
• Penn World Tables: An Expanded Set of International Comparisons   One of the richest sources of international statistics on the Internet, the Penn World Tables cover 152 countries and 29 broad subject areas.
• The Progress of Nations  This source from UNICEF ranks the nations of the world according to their achievements in child health, nutrition, education, family planning, and progress for women.
  1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000
• Statistical Universe  Provides access to intergovernmental (IGO) statistical sources. The reference numbers appearing in each entry correspond to microfiche statistical tables that can be accessed in the UIUC Government Documents Library.
• World Population Trends  Provides data on fertility, mortality, family planning, population policies, and world population estimates and projections.

Women

• Gender Indicators for Follow-up and Evaluation of the Regional Programme of Action for the Women of Latin America and the Caribbean, 1995-2001, and the Beijing Platform for Action  This document proposes and defines indicators but provides no statistics.
• The Progress of Nations. This source from UNICEF ranks the nations of the world according to their achievements in child health, nutrition, education, family planning, and progress for women.
  1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000
• Reproductive Health Indicators  This bibliographic and statistical database is an indispensable source of information on abortion, sexually transmitted diseases, and related topics in Asia and the Pacific.
• Statistical Data from UNICEF  Provides national data on infant and maternal mortality, vaccinations, oral rehydration, malnutrition, breastfeeding, school enrollment, and adult literacy.
• Statistics on Women in Asia and the Pacific 1999  This indispensable source has sections on population, the family, health, education, labor, and women in politics.

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Last modified by: Leo Dion on 11/11/08