Research Guides: Business Research Toolkit: Country Data and Statistics

Find Economic Data

Fitch Connect This link opens in a new window Covers up to 175 markets worldwide. It provides daily alerts and news stories, country risk ratings, economic analyses and forecasts. It also contains market research and forecast reports covering about 14 industries in 55 countries and a database of thousands of multinational companies.
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Mergent Online This link opens in a new window Summary company records and EDGAR files for over 11,000 U.S. public corporations and 17,000 non-US public companies.
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IMF eLibrary This link opens in a new window The International Monetary Fund (IMF) provides worldwide financial statistical publications and data back to 1946.
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UNdata This link opens in a new window Statistics worldwide from countries more than 30 specialized non-governmental organizations (NGOs) data sources. Covering international commodities, energy, governmental finances, population, status of women and trade.

CIA World Factbook
Annual publication of country profiles and statistics.

Nationmaster

A central data source for country statistics from sources such as the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD. Can generate graphs and

maps from data. Check out the Student FAQs for commonly asked questions.

Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Agricultural, development, economic, educational, energy, environmental, financial, health, public sector, science and technology, and social policy statistics.
World Development Indicators
The World Bank's principal data source on the global economy. More than 550 time series, 1960-present, on more than 200 countries and 18 country groups, covering demographic, social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators.
GlobalEDGE
Global Insights provides international business and trade information on over 200 countries, the 50 U.S. states, as well as nearly two dozen industry sectors, and many of the world’s trade blocs.
LABORSTA (International Labor Organization)
Free statistics on global employment, unemployment, wages, consumer prices, and occupational injuries. You can search by topic or by country.
Labour Force Surveys (International Labor Organization)
A standard household-based survey of work-related statistics for international households.

Find Demographic Data

UNdata This link opens in a new window Statistics worldwide from countries more than 30 specialized non-governmental organizations (NGOs) data sources. Covering international commodities, energy, governmental finances, population, status of women and trade.
CountryWatch This link opens in a new window In-depth reviews of 191 countries, including geographical, political, economic, corporate, and environmental information. Updated with wire service news.
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Mergent Online This link opens in a new window Summary company records and EDGAR files for over 11,000 U.S. public corporations and 17,000 non-US public companies.
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International Data Base (IDB)
U.S. Census compilation of demographic and socioeconomic data for 227 countries and areas of the world.
CIA World Factbook
Annual publication of country profiles and statistics.

Population Reference Bureau DataFinder
Cross-national demographic, health, socioeconomic data, along with sub-national U.S. data.
World Development Indicators
The World Bank's principal data source on the global economy. More than 550 time series, 1960-present, on more than 200 countries and 18 country groups, covering demographic, social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators.

Fitch Connect This link opens in a new window Covers up to 175 markets worldwide. It provides daily alerts and news stories, country risk ratings, economic analyses and forecasts. It also contains market research and forecast reports covering about 14 industries in 55 countries and a database of thousands of multinational companies.
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MarketResearch.com This link opens in a new window Full-text service of market research reports on many topics. Includes more than 40,000 market intelligence publications from 350 publishers worldwide.
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IBISWorld This link opens in a new window Limited to 30 downloads per session. IBISWorld Industry Market Research reports covers about 680 U.S. industries written at the 5-digit level of NAICS. Each report contains key statistics, market characteristics, segmentation, industry conditions, performance and outlook. These reports are written by industry specialists. Each report is updated every 4 months.
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Statista This link opens in a new window Reports that provide an aggregate of a variety of data, mainly statistics. Search for data by industry, political issue, consumerism, companies or countries. The data reports provide sourcing information.
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Mergent Online This link opens in a new window Summary company records and EDGAR files for over 11,000 U.S. public corporations and 17,000 non-US public companies.
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GlobalEDGE
Global Insights provides international business and trade information on over 200 countries, the 50 U.S. states, as well as nearly two dozen industry sectors, and many of the world’s trade blocs.

Find Trade Data

UNdata This link opens in a new window UNSTATS Common Database covers all countries and areas and selected series from more than 30 specialized international data sources.

Interactive Tariff and Trade DataWeb
From U.S. International Trade Commission.
FTA Tariff Tool
This is an online resource to help you determine the tariff, or tax at the border, that certain foreign countries will collect when your product crosses into their country.

International Trade Statistics
Published annually by the World Trade Organization, this website provides statistics on merchandise and commercial services, organized by country, region, and main product groups and services.
GlobalEDGE
Global Insights provides international business and trade information on over 200 countries, the 50 U.S. states, as well as nearly two dozen industry sectors, and many of the world’s trade blocs.

Find Data by Region

EUROSTAT: Your Key to European Statistics
Free access to statistical data provided by European Commission. Search by keyword or browse by topic.
European Central Bank (ECB)
Data on the Euro, international reserves, retail interest rates, payment/cross border collateral statistics, historical time series, statistical press releases, and the ECB Monthly Bulletin.
Data.gov.uk
"The Government is releasing public data to help people understand how government works and how policies are made. Some of this data is already available, but data.gov.uk brings it together in one searchable website. Making this data easily available means it will be easier for people to make decisions and suggestions about government policies based on detailed information. There are over 8,000 datasets available, from all central government departments and a number of other public sector bodies and local authorities"
Office of National Statistics (UK)
"ONS is the UK’s largest independent producer of official statistics and the recognised national statistical institute of the UK"

Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)
Economic, trade, and population statistics.
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
Online publications include "Economic and Social Conditions in Southern Africa" and "Economic Report on Africa."

Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Statistics
Intra-ASEAN and extra-ASEAN statistics, communication and transportation statistics, and macroeconomic indicators.
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) Statistics Division
"he ESCAP online database contains time series data for selected indicators covering a wide range of issues in relation to the secretariat's work: demography, migration, education, health, poverty, gender, employment, economy, government finance, employment, transport, and environment. Among other indicators, it contains data series published in the Statistical Yearbook for Asia and the Pacific 2009 and the Asia and the Pacific Trade and Investment Report 2009."
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ECSWA) Statistics
Includes "Statistical Abstract of the ESCWA Region," "Bulletin on Vital Statistics in the ESCWA Region," "National Accounts Studies of the ESCWA Region," "External Trade Bulletin of the ESCWA Region," "Selected Social Indicators on Quality of Life in the ESCWA Region", "Bulletin of Industrial Statistics for the Arab Countries" and gender statistics.

Caribbean Community (CARICOM)
"To develop a sustainable statistical infrastructure within the CARICOM Secretariat providing accurate, timely and reliable statistical information of a high quality and broad scope, facilitating analysis and dissemination of these data, promoting their use in effective and efficient decision making and simultaneously, fostering a similar enabling environment for statistical development among Member States of the Caribbean Community."
ECLAC: Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean: CEPALSTAT
"CEPALSTAT is the gateway to all the statistical information of Latin America and the Caribbean countries collected, systematized and published by ECLAC."