Introduction

Facts or figures are often used in studies or reports to make a point. These values, which are often referred to as statistics, tend to be aggregate counts, totals, sums, or averages. In the print world, this type of numerical information is typically found in statistical abstracts, census monographs, and serial publications from Statistics Canada or other government agencies, such as the Bank of Canada. In the digital world this numeric information appears on CD-ROM and similar products with electronic table access, or in electronic journals. (Source: Chuck Humphrey, University of Alberta, 1997)

This document deals with the location of statistics (as opposed to raw or primary research data), in computer-readable form, with an emphasis on national statistics. In some cases, references are to collections of statistics themselves; in other cases, references are to tools that assist you to locate statistics in print or in electronic publications.

Some resources linked here are restricted access to University of Toronto faculty, students and staff only. These resources are labelled Restricted.

International and other statistics

Directories of resources

• CESSDA thematic data

• Country statistical yearbooks (University of Wisconsin, Madison. Libraries)
  Links to country statistical yearbooks or similar collections (census, "facts and figures," etc.) for 132 countries worldwide.

• Data on the net (J. Jacobs et al.)
  A searchable database of over 750 records describing statistical and data resources available via the Internet, including individual data files, data archives, and major data producers. The database includes abstracts and hot-links to resources.

• Downloadable data by subject (University of Edinburgh. Data Library)

• Explore GovDocs (University of Michigan. Documents Center)
  Formerly Grace York's Statistical resources on the Web. [2009-08-05]

• GovInfo: government on the Web (UBC Library) 

• Guide to freely available international data resources (ESDS International) 

• Index to international statistics (LexisNexis)
  Also available on cd-rom or print in GOVT.

• Index to internet resources from C&RL News by topic (ACRL)

• International Governmental Organizations (Northwestern University. Library. Government Publications and Maps) 

• Key starting points for statistics (Rhodes-Blakeman Associates) 

• Lanic: statistics (University of Texas at Austin. Latin American Network Information Center) 

• Latin American statistical sources (Cornell University. Library. Latin American & Caribbean Government Documents Project) 

• MacroDataGuide: an international social science resource (Norwegian Social Science Data Service (NSD)
  Links to international and national WWW-based data sources. Developed to provide links to contextual data for the European social survey. [2010-04-29]

• Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) search
  Sites were chosen based on their consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and also collated from University of Minnesota Human Rights Library, Duke University Libraries' NGO Research Guide, and the World Association of Non-Governmental Organizations (WANGO).

• OFFSTATS: official statistics on the Web. (Rainer Wolcke, International Commerce & Statistics Librarian, University of Auckland Library)
  Links to international and national WWW-based sources of official statistics.

• Producers and publishers of statistics (Statistics Finland. Library)

• Social, economic and political change: free data (Shackman, Gene) 

• Social science data extractors: international population, vital statistics, and socio-economic estimates and projections (University of Wisconsin-Madison. Center for Demography and Ecology) 

• Statistical information guide (American University Library)
  Links to international statistical resources. [2009-06-17]



• Web links (GODORT. International Documents Task Force (IDTF))

• Webstat (Statistics Finland. Library)
  Around 2,500 statistical sources available freely on the Internet have been selected and described into the WebStat service. Statistics Finland’s link list of Producers and publishers of statistics gives a good idea of the organisations whose statistics have been described into the database. The references are updated at least once a year.

• Yearbook of international organizations (Union of International Associations) 

  
  See also:

• Directory of international statistics. vol. 1/ United Nations. Department of International Economic and Social Affairs. Statistical Office. New York, NY: United Nations, 1982 (Statistical papers, Series M No. 56 rev. 1; ST/ESA/STAT/SER.M/56/Rev.1)
(At UofT: UN 2 S13 -75M561)
 

• Index to international statistics: IIS./ Congressional Information Service Inc. Bethesda, Md: Congressional Information Service, 1986 - . (At UofT: HA 154 I64 1986 GOVT) Continued by: Statistical masterfile [cd-rom], 1983 - . (At UofT: in GOVT)
  

• Instat: international statistics sources: subject guide to sources of international comparative statistics. 2 vols./ Fleming, Michael C & Joseph G. Nellis. London: Routledge, 1995. (At UofT: Z 7551 I42 1995X v.2 GOVT)

• Sourcebook of global statistics./ Kurian, George Thomas. New York, NY: Facts on File Publications, 1985 (At UofT: Z 7551 K46 1985 GOVT)

General sources

• ArcticStat (Université Laval)
  Statistics on dwellings, education, health and social services, households and families, labour force, personal and household income, population, vital statistics, and regional accounts. Couries/regions include Alaska, Canada, Faroe Islands, Finland, greenland, Iceland, Norway, Russian Federation, Sweden. Annual data 1990s through latest where available; some historical data. Most documents are PDF format. [2010-05-14]

• biz/ed home: data (University of Bristol. Institute for Learning and Research Technology)
  Includes: time series data from UK Office of National Statistics (ONS), including labour market data, average earnings index data, etc., basic financial accounts for 500 leading companies (3 years of data in most cases), Penn world tables, company reports for 16 UK companies (one year of data), U.S. Bureau of the Census International data base of population statistics, and chronologies of national and international events of significance in the 1970s through the 1990s.

• Comparative welfare states data set 2004 ed. (Huber, Evenyne et al., Northwestern University, University of North Carolina etc.) 
  Contains: wage and salary data, social spending, revenue and welfare state institutions data, labour force and labour institutions data, demographic data, and macroeconomic data from Penn World tables and other sources, and political variables. 18 OECD countries. Annual data 1960-2003. Excel format.

• Country at a glance tables (World Bank)
  Includes: poverty and social indicators, key economic ratios and long-term trends, structure of the economy, prices and government finance, trace, balance of payments, external debt and resource flows. Latest data, little historical data. Pdf format files.

• Country rankings guide (American University Library)
  A list of country rankings based on indicators that try to measure different characteristics of countries around the world. Most of these rankings are ongoing and recurring. Be careful when using these indexes because they often measure qualities that are difficult to quantify. Moreover, methodologies often change year to year; therefore, multiyear comparisons are often invalid. For these reasons, it is important to know the methodologies used to derive these cross country comparisons. Most of the indexes included provide their methodology. [2009-06-17]

• Cross-national time-series, 1815-1973 2001 ed. (Binghamton, NY: Computer Solutions Unlimited)
  Contains: data for 230 independent countries for the period 1815-1999, where available. The nations included in the study were commonly recognized members of the international community during the period. The time series reports data for periods for which information is readily available and appropriate. Much of the data were estimated in order to provide yearly coverage. Data includes: population and urbanization, imports, exports, proportion of world trade, energy production and consumption, defense expenditure and manpower, distribution of economy in agriculture and industry, railroads, automobiles, commercial and highway vehicles, telegraphs, telegrams, telephones, school enrollment, literacy, physicians per capita, voting, legislature and political parties, national government revenue and expenditure, defense expenditure as a proportion of total expenditure, total trade (imports + exports), defense expenditure and manpower, distribution of economy in agriculture and industry, railroads, mail, radios, televisions, newspapers, books, national income, currency and exchange rates, domestic instability, regime characteristics, international status, electric power, steel, and cement production.
  Restricted. Access by University of Toronto IP addresses only.

• Database of World infrastructure stocks, 1950-1995 (World Bank)
  Alternative (Excel format) [Restricted]
  Includes: electricity generating capacity, infrastructure quality, telephone main lines, paved road length, rail route length, telephones, Annual data, 1950-1995.

• EarthTrends: the environmental information portal./ World Resources Institute
  Current edition 
  2000-2001 edition 
  Includes: biodiversity and protected areas, forest and grasslands, coastal, marine and inland waters, agriculture and food, freshwater, atmosphere and climate, energy and resource use, population and human development, and economic indicators (incl. GNP, GDP, external debt, exports and imports of agriculture, food, fuel, metals, and manufacturing, government expenditures, exchange rate, official development assitance, military expenditures, debt service, foreign direct investment, tourism receipts, Gini coefficients, income distribution, commodity prices, poverty rates),
  Restricted. Access by University of Toronto IP addresses only.

• Eurostat (Statistical Office of the European Communities):
  • Eurostat home page
    Eurostat's principal database is the New Cronos - which contains high quality macroeconomic and social statistics data covering not only European Union (EU) Member states but also many of the central European countries, Japan, the United States and the main economic partners of the EU. The data are organised into 'Key indicators on EU policy' and nine statistical themes, which are then subdivided into collections of data tables
  • Euro-Indicators Tables
    Includes: national accounts, monetary and financial indicators, external trade, prices, industry, trade, and labour market statistics. Most statistics consist of only the last 6 months or quarters of data.
  • New Cronos database. [Requires Athens account]
  • Eurostat Regions statistical yearbook, 2001 - .
    Restricted. Access by University of Toronto IP addresses only.
  • Eurostat yearbook, 2003
  • Europe in figures - Eurostat yearbook, 2009
    Restricted. Access by University of Toronto IP addresses only.

• FAOSTAT agricultural data (Food and Agrigulture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations)
  Database on food, agriculture and hunger. Circa 200 countries.
  Unrestricted access as of 2010-07-01.

• Google public data explorer (Google)
  Interactive visualization of statistics on U.S. and Europe, including unemployment, prices, wages, diseases, etc. [2010-05-14]

• Human development report 1990 - [latest] (United Nations Development Program (UNDP)) [Restricted]
  Human Development Reports [Unrestricted]
  Alternative access
  Includes: child mortality, profiles of human development and deprivation by country. Also has calories, safe water, malnourished children, under-5 mortality, child survival, low birth weight. Has Index of Human Development and formerly had Gini Coefficient. (Newer editions do not include the Gini Coefficient).
  See also: GapMinder

• InfoNation (United Nations)
  Current statistics only, no historical statistics, although date of current statistics varies.

• Key indicators of developing Asian and Pacific countries. (Asian Development Bank): 1999-[latest] editions.
  31 regional tables and 38 country tables on 40 countries. Contents include: poulation, labour force and employment, national accounts, production, energy, price indices, money and banking, government finance, external trade, balance of payments, international reserves, exchange rates, and external indebtedness. Some tables contain retrospective data to 1984. Annual data. PDF and Excel formats.

• LexisNexis Statistical Insight (LexisNexis)
  LexisNexis Statistical enables easy access to statistics produced by the U.S. government, major international intergovernmental organizations, professional and trade organizations, commercial publishers, independent research organizations, state government agencies, and universities. Every table is linked to an abstract, which in turn contains a link to the full-text source document. The University of Toronto subscribes to:
  • LexisNexis Statistical Base Edition
  • LexisNexis Statistical Research Edition
  • American Statistics Index
  • Index to International Statistics

• Life during growth, 1960-1990 (William Easterly; World Bank)
  Download from World Bank [Unrestricted] , or access file 1 description, data, file 2 description, data [Restricted].
  Contains 95 macroeconomic indicators for 263 countries: individual rights and democracy, political instability and war, education, health, transport and communications, inequality across class and gender (Gini coefficients), and 'bads, Up to 4 time periods, 1960-1990. Excel format. Data are from a variety of source databases.

• Millenium Development Goals Indicators (United Nations)
  Includes: poverty, child hunger, education, literacy, child mortality, maternal mortality, HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, forest, energy use, carbon dioxide emissions, solid fuels, drinking water, sanitation, slum dwellers, official development assistance, market access, debt sustainability, unemployment, affordable drugs, telephones and personal computers, Internet use. Last 15 years of annual data. Download in .csv format.

• NationMaster
  No historical statistics. Latest statistics from UN sources and CIA world factbook. Includes: crime, economy, education, energy, environment, geography, government, health, media, military, people, religion, sports, transportation. Comparative graphing capabilities.
  Use with extreme caution and only if statistics can be verified from an alternative source. Works best with Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox

• OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development)
  • Factbook [Unrestricted]
  • Frequently Requested Data (OECD Washington Center) <http://www.oecdwash.org/DATA/online.htm> [Unrestricted]
  • SourceOECD: Old interface / New interface
  • Statlinks
    Restricted access to University of Toronto IP addresses. Old interface works best with Internet Explorer

• Regional Statistics (Eurostat)
  National and sub-national data on economy and finance, population and social conditions, industry, trade and services, agriculture, forestry and fisheries, external trade, transport, environment and energy, science and technology. Member countries and candidate countries of the EU only. Available time span varies.

• SESRIC: Statistical, Economic and Social Research and Training Centre for Islamic Countries
  Most data are annual, 1975 to latest.

• Social indicators (United Nations. Statistics Division)
  Includes: child-bearing, child and elderly populations, contraceptive use, education, health, housing, human settlements, income and economic activity, literacy, population, unemployment, water supply and sanitation. Latest year only, no historical data. Reference year varies. Download in xls.

• State of the world population, 1996 -  (United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA))
  Includes demographic, social and economic indicators: population projections, % urban, arable land, fertility rate, GNP per capita, % government expenditure on healh and education, external assistance, child mortality, per capita energy consumption, access to safe water. Also, for less populous contries: infant mortality, life expectancy, maternal mortality, primary and secondary education enrollments, births per 1,000 women, contraceptive prevalence, HIV prevalence. Most statistics are one year only (about 1998) or projected to 2010 or 2050.

• TransMONEE database (UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre): 2003 ed., 2008 ed.
  Alternative access: [Unrestricted]
  Includes: population by age groups, natality, child and maternal mortality, life expectancy and adult mortality, family formation, health, education, child protection, crime indicators, and economic indicators (Gini coefficients). Twenty-eight central and eastern European, and central Asian countries. 164 indicators. Annual data 1989-2006/07. Excel format.
  Restricted access to University of Toronto, Ryerson University, and York University IP addresses.
UNdata (United Nations. Statistics Division)
Includes: commodity trade statistics, energy statistics, FAO statistics, greenhouse gas inventory data, ILO statistics, industrial commodity statistics database, key indicators, Millennium development goals database, national accounts estimates of main aggregates and official country data, UNESCO statistics, UNSD demographic statistics, World population prospects, World Tourism Organization statistics, as well as selected World Health Organization, HDR-UNDP, Indicators on women and men, and UNHCR tables. Statistics on agriculture, education, employment, energy, environment, health, human development, industry, population, refugees, trade, and tourism. Some statistics are annual, some tables from 1988 to latest.

• UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UNESCO)
  Over 1,000 types of indicators and raw data on education, literacy, science and technology, culture and communication. The UIS collects data for more than 200 countries from Member States and international organizations.

• UNICEF Statistics and Monitoring (UNICEF)
  Includes: gross national product, total fertility rate, infant mortality rate, under-five mortality rate, maternal mortality rate, adult literacy rate, children reaching grade 5 of primary school, breast-feeding, vaccinations against diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough) and tetanus. Data are latest available, almost no historical data.

• United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
  Includes: population, families and households, education, employment, economy, health, housing, transport and tourism, energy, environment, communication, participation, crime and safety. Decennial data. Countries of central and eastern Europe, Canada and United States.

• United Nations Monthly Bulletin of Statistics (United Nations Statistics Division)
  Includes: building materials, construction of new buildings, electricity, finance, food, fuel imports, index numbers of production and wholesale prices, index numbers of world industrial production, industrial production, labour force, metals, mining, motor vehicles, national accounts, paper, petroleum products, population, prices, rubber, textiles, trade, transport. Time-series, where available, from ca 1990 on. Html format. 
  

• United Nations statistical yearbook, 1999 (United Nations. Statistics Division):
  Years covered by tables varies, but most are in the range 1980-1996. Software dependance: Beyond 20/20.
  Restricted. Access by University of Toronto IP addresses only. 

• UN Pulse
  A news blog from the Dag Hammarskjöld Library.

• World Bank:
  • Data catalog, includes links to:
    • African development indicators (ADI)
    • Education statistics
    • Health nutrition and population statistics
    • Millenium development indicators
    • Gender statistics
    • Doing business database
    • Actionable governance indicators
    • International comparison program
    • Joint external debt hub (JEDH)
    • Quarterly external debt statistics (QEDS/SDDS and QEDS/GDDS)
      Detailed external debt data of countries that subscribe to the IMF’s Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS) and a selected number of countries that participate in the IMF’s General Data Dissemination System (GDDS).
    • World development indicators. (World Bank):
      854 for 209 economies and 18 groups. Includes Gini coefficients. Annual data, from 1960 to the latest.
    • Global development finance
      data for the 134 countries that report public and publicly-guaranteed debt to the World Bank Debtor Reporting System. The 200+ indicators include external debt stocks and flows, major economic aggregates, and key debt ratios as well as average terms of new commitments, currency composition of long-term debt, debt restructuring, and scheduled debt service projections for the years 1970 to 2016, where data are available.
    • Global economic monitor (GEM)
      provides analysis of current economic trends, economic, financial and commodity data indicators, an extensive database including growth and commodity forecasts and access to the iSimulate modeling platform.
    • Logistics performance index (LPI)
      [2010-04-26]

• World Factbook (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
  Each edition contains current statistics only, no historical statistics, although date of current statistics varies.

• World in figures (Statistics Finland)
  Data range 1998-2004 where available.

• World tables of economic and social indicators, 1971-1992 (World Bank)
  Restricted. Access by University of Toronto IP addresses only.

• Additional U.N. statistical databases

Agriculture

• Fertilizer statistics, 1970/71- (International Fertilizer Industry Association (IFA))
  Trade and consumption statistics. Annual data. Selected tables from 1970.

Census

• Guide to selected population resources on government web sites (Princeton University. Stokes Library)
  Links and brief comments to selected population and related data maintained on government web sites from various countries around the world. The pages chosen for this guide include only those that appear on official government sites. In most cases, the data are derived from censuses or national surveys.

• Locating international census data (Library of Congress)
  Selected entries offer suggestions for locating international census publications. Included are web sites, guides, Library of Congress call numbers, and location information for identifying census publications in electronic, print, and microfiche formats.

Crime

• International crime statistics, 1995- (Interpol)
  Annual, country level statistics.
  Supercedes print version; available at: ZZ CPO -S71 GOVT (University of Toronto)
  2004-Sept. No longer publically available. See archive. 

• ICVS (International crime victims surveys) statistics, 1989-2000 (United Nations. Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute)
  Data for survey years 1989, 1992, 1996 and 2000 only. Country level statistics. PDF format files.

• United Nations surveys of crime trends and operations of criminal justice systems (United Nations. Office on Drugs and Crime)
  See also NACJD at ICPSR

• Violence and crime in cross-national perspective, 1900-1972.(Archer, Dane & Rosemary Gartner):
  Codebook and data file [Excel format]
  Data file is restricted. Access by University of Toronto IP addresses only. See also HB3581 .A3R68 GOVT

• WHO statistical information system (WHOSIS) (World Health Organization (WHO))
  Includes: suicide, homicide victimization.

Demography

• DataFinder: population and health data (Population Reference Bureau)
  Contains 136 variables, including: abortion policy, age at first marriage, birth services, capital city, breast-feeding, contraceptive use, crude birth rate, crude death rate, population density, female-headed households, GNI PPP per capita, illiteracy, infant mortality rate, labour force participation rates, life expectancy, literacy rate, maternal deaths, population projections, population by age groups, HIV/AIDS, rate of natural increase, secondary school enrollment, total area, total females, urban population, fertility rate. 220 countries plus, 28 world regions and sub-regions, and the world as a whole. Little historical data. 

• Also access to World population data sheets

• Demographic and health surveys (Measure DHS)
  See especially Country quickstats.

• Demographic database. (United Nations. Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE))
  Includes: abortions, age dependency ratios, age distributions, birth death, divorce and marriage rates, deaths by age and sex, first marriages by ages of bride and groom, reproduction rate, life expectancy, live births by age of mother, fertility rate, first birth order, mean age at first childbearing, marriage, population projections by age, population by 5-year age groups, remarriages, standardized death rates by major cause, women per 100 men. Countries of central and eastern Europe. Monthly, quarterly, annual data 1982-2001.

• Demographic yearbook (United Nations. Statistics Division)
  Includes annual yearbooks 1948 to latest. Also special issues, eg Historical supplements. Some are pdf format only, later include tables in .xls format.
  
  Alternate location: Demographic yearbook, historical supplement Dec. 20, 1999 ed. (ST/ESA/STAT/SER.R/CD/28):
  
  
  • Contains: mid-year population estimates, vital statistics summaries, sex, residence, intercensal rates of increase, measures of natality, live-births and rates by age of mother, female population by age and number of children born alive and living, expectation of life by age and residence, deaths and death rates by age, sex, and residence, marital status, age, sex and residence.
    Most tables are 1948-1997. Data for 1932-1947 available in print in Demographic yearbook 1948. Formats: html, pdf, xls, and csv (comma-delimited ascii), ascii fixed-record length (dat), dbf, and SPSS system files.
  
  
  • Print at UT Library: UN 2 S30 D29 GOVT

• European fertility project (Princeton University. Office of Population Research)

• European population, 1850-1945. Rothenbacher, Franz (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002)
  Includes: population structure, census population, population density, components of population growth, life expectancy, households. 21 European countries. PDF and .xls format files.
  Restricted. Access by University of Toronto IP addresses only. See also HB3581 .A3R68 GOVT

• European population since 1945. Rothenbacher, Franz (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2005)
  Includes: population structure, census population, population density, components of population growth, life expectancy, households. 21 European countries including subnational regions. PDF and .xls format files.
  Restricted. Access by University of Toronto IP addresses only. See also HB3581 .A3R684 2005X GOVT

• Genderstats: database of gender statistics (World Bank)
  Data on key gender topics from national statistics agencies, United Nations databases, and World Bank-conducted or funded surveys. [2009-11-13]

• Gender statistics database (United Nations. Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)) 
  Includes: crime, education, employment and labour force, families and households, health, population, public life and decision making, work and the economy. Countries of central and eastern Europe, Canada and United States. Decennnial data, 1980-2001.

• Gridded Population of the World and the Global Rural-Urban Mapping Project (Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC)) 

• Human Life-Table Database (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research) 
  Includes: data as available for 41 countries. Some series begin in 1800s. PDF format.

• Human Mortality Database (University of California, Berkeley) 
  Includes: births, deaths, population size, exposure to risk, death rates, life expectancy at birth. Data are available for 27 countries. Some series begin in 1800s. Database outputs to tab-delimited ascii. Registration required.

• International data base (United States. Bureau of the Census)
  Demographic and socio-economic statistics for 227 countries and areas of the world. Statistics range 1950 through 2050 (projections). Includes: population by age and sex, vital rates, infant mortality, and life tables, fertility and child survivorship, migration, marital status, family planning, ethnicity, religion (in ICPSR ed. only), and language, literacy, labor force, employment, and income, households. Also population pyramids.

• MPI data hub: country and comparative data (Migration Policy Institute)
  Micration facts, statistics, and maps, from around the world. [2010-05-14]

• Population and vital statistics report (United Nations. Statistics Division)
  Includes: recent data on population size (total, male and female) from the latest available census of the population, national official population estimates and the number and rate (births, deaths and infant deaths) for the latest available year after 1988. It also presents United Nations estimates of the mid-year population of the world, with its various areas and regions. Format: pdf.

• Population statistics (JJ Lahmeyer)
  Includes: historical, demographical and statistical overview of the population of all the countries in the world, their administrative divisions and their important cities.

• State of the world population (United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA))
  Includes demographic, social and economic indicators: population projections, % urban, arable land, fertility rate, GNP per capita, % government expenditure on healh and education, external assistance, child mortality, per capita energy consumption, access to safe water. Also, for less populous contries: infant mortality, life expectancy, maternal mortality, primary and secondary education enrollments, births per 1,000 women, contraceptive prevalence, HIV prevalence. Most statistics are one year only (about 1998) or projected to 2010 or 2050.

• United Nations Population information network (POPIN) 

• The world at six billion (United Nations. Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Population Division)
  Includes world population from year 0 to 1999, and projections, fertility, life expectancy, migration, by continent and selected countries.

• World population data sheet, 2004 -  (Population Reference Bureau)
  See also PRB DataFinder.

• World population prospects (United Nations. Population Division
  Includes: historical and projections, population density, rural and urban population, sex and age groups (country profiles only). Continents, regions and individual countries. Quinquennial data, 1950-2045.

  See also:

• Census dates for countries and areas of the world: 1945 to 2014 (U.S. Census Bureau)

• Counting heads around the world: the genealogy of international census databases, Part 1 (Mattison, David) 

• Population and housing censuses: census dates for all countries United Nations. Statistics Division)

• Creditor reporting system (CRS) (OECD)
  Limited data available without a subscription.

• Foreign exchange rates (EconStats)
  Includes: 58 currencies, monthly exchange rates to US$, 1971 to present.

• Global economic data (EconStats)
  Includes: GDP data, inflation, money supply, unemployment, trade, government spending and deficits, interest rates, finance data and other historical macroeconomic and financial time series. Annual, quarterly and monthly data. MS Excel files.

• Handbook of international economic statistics. 1999 ed (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency) 

• International debt and other key indicators: data bank (Jubilee Research)
  Includes: overall indebtedness, composition of debt, debt service, general flows, general indicators, social indicators. Annual data, 1987-1997. Decennial data for 1970 & 1980. Html format.

• QWIDS: International development statistics online (OECD)
  DAC statistics provide comprehensive data on the volume, origin and types of aid and resource flows to over 150 developing countries and territories. There are two main data collections, one on annual aggregates (DAC aggregate statistics) which covers official development assistance (ODA), other official flows (OOF) and private funding (foreign direct investment, bank and non-bank flows) from members of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC), multilateral organisations and other donors. For a more detailed description of the data and definitions, please refer to the DAC Statistical Reporting Directives. The other database is the Creditor Reporting System (CRS) on aid activities. The objectives of this database are to provide a set of readily available basic data that enables more detailed analysis on where aid goes, what purposes it serves and what policies it aims to implement, on a comparable basis for all DAC members. Most commonly, Aid Activity data are used to analyse the geographical breakdown by sector of aid for selected years and donors or groups of donors. But the database also enables consideration of specific policy issues (e.g. tying status of aid) and monitoring donors’ compliance with various international recommendations in the field of development co-operation. [2009-11-18]
  Historical editions:
  • DAC/GEO: Geographical distribution of financial flows to aid recipients, 1960-1998;
  • EDS: External debt statistics, 1975-1999;
  • CRS : Creditor reporting system, 1973-1998;
  • DCR/STATS: Development co-operation report, 1999: statistical annex.

• International Association of Insolvency Regulators (IAIR)
  Contains: statistics on bankruptcies, current and historical (about 10 years) for selected countries. Html format.

• International Monetary Fund (IMF)
  • Balance of payments statistics (1940 to current, annual and quarterly)
  • Direction of trade statistics (1940 to current, annual, quarterly, and monthly)
  • International financial statistics (1940 to current, annual, quarterly, and monthly)
  • Government finance statistics  (1990 to current, annual); earlier years available from CHASS or ICPSR

• Joint external debt hub, 1990-    (Bank for International Settlements (BIS), International Monetary Fund (IMF), Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), World Bank Group (WB))
  Data series range 1990 to latest; annual data.
  Supercedes:
  • Joint BIS-IMF-OECD-WB statistics on external debt, 1990-2005 (Bank for International Settlements (BIS), International Monetary Fund (IMF), Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), World Bank Group (WB)):
    Data series range 1990 to 2005; annual and quarterly data.
    Restricted. Access by University of Toronto IP addresses only.

• National accounts main aggregates database (United Nations. Statistics Division)
  Includes: time series from 1970 onwards of main national accounts aggregates for all UN Members States and all other countries and areas in the world. It is maintained and updated on the basis of annual collections of the official annual national accounts statistics supplemented by estimates of national accounts statistics for those years and countries for which the official statistics has incomplete or inconsistent information. In addition, to the values of national accounts statistics, it contains analytical indicators and ratios derived from the main national accounts aggregates related to economic structure and development.

• Penn world tables, version 6.1
  Time-series statistics on 152 countries and 29 subjects, including population and components of GDP, primarily for the period 1950-2000.

• Trade and production database, 1976-1999 (International Bank for Reconstructions and Development/World Bank)
  Contains: total trade flows by year, country, and region (ISIC3 by country/year) and ISIC4 by country/year; bilateral trade (67 countries), years varies; input output tables and intermediate imports by country and ISIC3. Also Concordances COMTRADE codes to World Bank regions; HS96 to ISIC, SITCv2 to ISIC.
  Restricted. Access by University of Toronto IP addresses only.

• World economic outlook (International Monetary Fund)
  The WEO database is created during the biannual World Economic Outlook (WEO) exercise. Selected series that are available in the WEO publication are now available on this website. Includes: GDP, investment, gross national savings, US dollar exchange rate, inflation, unemployment rate, general government balance, debt, current account balance. Annual data, from 1980, with projections to 2005.
  
  

  See also:

• Bureau of Economic Analysis: International Economic Accounts (U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis): 

• RePEc: research papers in economics

• RFE: Resources for Economists on the Internet (Bill Goffe)

Education

• Atlas of student mobility (Instite of International Education (IIE))

• EdStats: comprehensive database of education statistics (World Bank (WB))
  Designed and developed by the World Bank’s Education Group of the Human Development Network (HDNED) and the Development Economics Data Group (DECDG) drawing on data from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and other international agencies. Its purpose is to compile education data from a variety of national and international sources in order to provide information on pertinent educational topics. [2009-11-13]

• Education at a glance: education statistics and indicators: statistics, data and indicators (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD))

• Global education database (UNESCO and Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS))
  Contains: 224 UNESCO indicators in the areas of primary, secondary and tertiary education, literacy, resources and socio-economic context. Annual and/or quinquennial data, circa 1970 to latest. Latest ed. 2003

• OECD education database (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)):
  Data are late-1990s to latest available. 
  Restricted. Access by University of Toronto IP addresses only. 

  See also:

• IAU online databases: world higher education database (International Association of Universities)
  The database on Higher Education Systems includes information available on the higher education systems of some 180 countries and territories worldwide. It should be noted that the designations employed for countries and territories in the World Higher Education Database (WHED) do not imply any expression of opinion of IAU with regard to their status or the delimitations of their frontiers. Site also has a list of universities by country.

Elections & politics

• ACE project: administration and cost of elections (International Foundation for Election Systems, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs):

• Elections in western Europe since 1815: electoral results by constituencies. Caramani, Daniele (London: McMillan References, 1999.):
  European election dates, information and results. Statistics range 1815 to present where available.
  Restricted. Access by University of Toronto IP addresses only. See also JN94 A91C27 2000 GOVT.

• Freedom in the world: the annual survey of political rights and civil liberties, country scores 1972-73 to 2006 (Freedom House):
  See under Analysis

• ICRG: International Country Risk Guide researchers dataset (academic) 2005 ed. (The PRS Group, Inc.)
  Includes: aggregate measures of government stability, socio-economic conditions, investment profile, internal conflict, external conflict, corruption, military in politics, religion in politics, law and order, ethnic tensions, democratic accountability, bureaucratic quality. 153 countries. Annual data, 1984-2004. Excel format.
  Restricted. Access by University of Toronto IP addresses only.

• International IDEA databases (International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance)
  International election results, including Voter Turnout, as well as Political Finance Laws and Regulations, Electoral System Design, Quotas for Women, ACE Electoral Knowledge Network, iKNOW Politics. Regularly updated voter turnout figures for national presidential and parliamentary elections since 1945, as well as European Parliament elections, are presented country by country using both the number of registered voters and voting age population (VAP) as indicators. Where available, also includes the spoilt ballot rate for each election. Download to Excel or .csv format. [2009-11-18]

• IFES election guide  (International Foundation for Electoral Systems)
  International election dates, information and results, including voter turnout. Statistics range 1998 to present.

• International relations data site (Paul R. Hensel, University of North Texas)
  Includes links to: International conflict and cooperation data, economic, environmental, political and social data, and political methodology.

• Political database of the Americas (Georgetown University. Center for Latin American Studies & Organization of American States (OAS))
  Includes: ; Constitutions and Comparative Constitutional Study , Constitutions by Country , Comparative Constitutional Study , Reference Materials ; Executive Branch , Comparative Constitutional Norms , Cabinets by Country , Links to Ministries , Chronology of Presidents , Reference Materials ; Legislative Branch , Comparative Constitutional Norms , Legislative Institutions , Reference Materials ; Judicial Branch , Comparative Constitutional Norms , Judicial Institutions , Reference Materials ; Electoral Systems and Data , Comparative Constitutional Norms , Electoral Results , Electoral Calendar , National Electoral Institutes , Electoral Laws , Reference Materials ; Political Parties , Comparative Constitutional Norms , Political Parties by Country , Political Party Laws , Reference Materials ; Decentralization and Local Governance , Comparative Constitutional and Legislative Study , Reference Materials ; Democracy and Citizen Security , Citizen Security , Conflict Prevention , Transnational Organized Crime , Reference Materials ; Indigenous Peoples and Democracy , Glossary , Demographic Trends , Legal Framework

  See also:

• Economic and political risk [sources] (Princeton University Library. Pliny Fisk Library of Economics & Finance)
• Electionworld (Derksen, Wilfried)
  Extensive set of links and text pages, formerly Electionworld, now part of Wikipedia. [2010-01-07]
• Voter turnout from 1945 to date (International IDEA (Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance)
• Sources for democratic governance indicators, 2003 (United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)) 

Energy

• Joint Oil Data Initiative (JODI) database (United Nations. Department of Economic and Social Affairs)
  Country, flow and product data. Middle Eastern and African countries. January 2001 to latest (monthly from 2002).

Environment

• Climate analysis indicators tool (World Resources Institute)
  Registration required.

• Environment and human settlements database United Nations. Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
  Includes: consumption of cement, floor space, dwelling stock by date, housing services, by tenure, dwellings completed, dwellings by size, firms by number of employees, commercial buildings, health buildings, output of firms, population, production of building material, value of construction, wholesale prices indexes of building materials. Countries of central and eastern Europe, Canada and United States. Annual, quarterly and monthly data, 1981-2000.
• Mean sea level. Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level (PSMSL)
• Trends online: a compendium of data on global change (World Data Centres. Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Centre (CDIAC))
  Includes: atmospheric trace gas concentrations, greenhouse gas emissions, climate (temperature, clouds), ecosystems.

Financial

• Global competitiveness report, 2001-2002 (World Economic Forum)
  Restricted to University of Toronto IP addresses.
• International market research reports (Industry Canada. Strategis)
• MEMIS: Mitsui emerging markets information source (University of Michigan. Mitsui Life Financial Research Center)
  Sources of firm-level financial data on emerging markets. Specifically,the MEMIS provides information on where to find financial statement corporate governance, market, and miscellaneous data relevant to financial research.
  Registration required.
• Private sector at a glance tables (World Bank)
  The Private Sector at a Glance tables are the result of close collaboration between the staff of the World Bank's Development Economics Data Group and the Investment Climate Department of the Financial and Private Sector Development Vice Presidency. The table draws on several sources of data, and covers more than 40 indicators for the following topics: economic and social context, business environment , private sector investment , finance and banking , infrastructure. Data are largely drawn from the Development Economics Data Group's World Development Indicators database, and are supplemented by additional information from IFC, the World Bank, and external data sources. Please refer to the Definitions and sources notes for more information. Data are presented at the country level, with both income group and regional comparisons. [2009-11-13]
• Statistics on payment systems in the Group of Ten countries, July 2002 (Group of Ten Countries. Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems)
  Includes: population, GDP, exachange rates, settlement media used by banks and non-banks, banknotes and coin, institutional framework, payment card functions and accepting devices, volume and value of payment instructions handled by selected interbank funds transfer systems, volume and value of indicators of use of various cashless payment instruments instructions handled by trading platforms, clearing houses, and securities settlement systems, number of participants in ditto, outstanding securities, netting ratio in clearing systems, SWIFT tables. Country and comparative tables. Data are for 2000.
• Stock markets (EconStats)
  Includes: monthly stock price indices for Americas, Asia and Pacific, Europe, and Middle East and Africa. Most range from mid-1980s to present. Also futures settlement prices and spot market data.
• World investment report (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)): [latest].
  Alternate source: 2003, incl. Statistical annex Restricted to University of Toronto IP addresses.
  Includes: foreign direct investment inflows and outflows, and M&As, 1987-2002. Annual data. PDF and .xls formats. [lgmr; 09-05-13]
• Yahoo! finance
  Includes: major international and US stock indices, and commodities futures. Also historical prices, beginning dates vary.

Gender

• Gender statistics programme: gender indicators for the Arab countries (United Nations. ESCWA)
  

• Global database of quotas for women (International IDEA (Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance) & Stockholm University)
  This database focuses on gender quotas - that is quotas that apply to women for elective office. Electoral quotas for women may be constitutional, legislative or a take the form of a political party quota. It may apply to the number of women candidates proposed by a party for election, or may take the form of reserved seats in the legislature.

• Statistics and indicators on women and men (United Nations. Statistics Division)
  Includes indicators on: population, women and men in families, health, education, work, and political decision making. Latest available year for which gender specific statistics are available only.

Health

• Cancer mondial database (WHO. International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)
  Incidence data collected by cancer registries worldwide : CI5 I-VIII (Cancer Incidence in Five Continents, Vol. I to VIII) study. 2. The data on incidence and survival of children and adolescents in Europe (ACCIS project) 3. Mortality data extracted from the World Health Organization (WHO) databank. 4. The most recent estimates of the cancer incidence, mortality and prevalence, by sex and cancer site, for all the countries of the world (GLOBOCAN 2002).

• DISTAT, the United Nations disability statistics database (United Nations. Department of Economic and Social Affairs): 

• Health, nutrition and population (HNPStats) database (World Bank)
  Compiles World Bank data on health, nutrition and population. [2009-11-13]

• HIV/AIDS survey indicators database (DHS)
  Includes: stigma and discrimination, knowledge, voluntary counselling and testing, sexual negotiation and testing, sexual behaviour, injecting drug use, STI care and prevention, health and social impact. Dynamic tables by age groups, education, sex, rural/urban residence. Survey years for survey countries only.

• OECD health data: frequently asked data (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD))
  Includes: 20 sample tables from the CD-ROM product.

• OECD health data [latest] (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)): Remote access
  Restricted. Access by University of Toronto IP addresses only. Use with Internet Explorer only.
  For prior issues of the OECD health database, contact the Data Library Service

• Report on the global HIV/AIDS epidemic (UNAIDS)
  Includes: table of country-specific HIV/AIDS estimates and data. PDF format releases in 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008.

• Register of databases in the WHO regional office for Europe (World Health Organization (WHO)) 

• World Health Organization (WHO).
  • World health statistics report, 2008
  • WHO statistical information system (WHOSIS)
    National statistics for 70 core indicators on mortality, morbidity, risk factors, service coverage, and health systems
  • WHO global infobase online
    Data on chronic diseases and their risk factors for all WHO Member States.

Historical statistics

• British history, 1790-1980 database (Author: B.R. Michell; Distributor: Statistics for Education)
  MS Excel format.
  Restricted. Access by University of Toronto IP addresses only.

• Cross-national time-series, 1815-1973. 1999 ed. (State University of New York, Binghamton; ICPSR 7412)
  Contains: data for 167 independent countries for the period 1815-1973. The nations included in the study were commonly recognized members of the international community during the 164-year period. The time series reports data for periods for which information is readily available and appropriate. Much of the data were estimated in order to provide yearly coverage. Data includes: population and urbanization, imports, exports, proportion of world trade, energy production and consumption, defense expenditure and manpower, distribution of economy in agriculture and industry, railroads, automobiles, commercial and highway vehicles, telegraphs, telegrams, telephones, school enrollment, literacy, physicians per capita, voting, legislature and political parties, national government revenue and expenditure, defense expenditure as a proportion of total expenditure, total trade (imports + exports), defense expenditure and manpower, distribution of economy in agriculture and industry, railroads, mail, radios, televisions, newspapers, books, national income, currency and exchange rates, domestic instability, regime characteristics, international status, electric power, steel, and cement production.
  Restricted. Access by University of Toronto IP addresses only.

• Elections in western Europe since 1815: electoral results by constituencies Caramani, Daniele (London: McMillan References, 1999.)
  European election dates, information and results. Statistics range 1815 to present where available.
  Restricted. Access by University of Toronto IP addresses only. See also JN94 A91C27 2000 GOVT.

• European population, 1850-1945 Rothenbacher, Franz (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002)
  Includes: population structure, census population, population density, components of population growth, life expectancy, households. 21 European countries. PDF and .xls format files.
  Restricted. Access by University of Toronto IP addresses only. See also HB3581 .A3R68 GOVT

• Historical statistics of Sweden, 1900 (Statistics Sweden)
  Includes: population, climate, agriculture, mining, energy, housing, tourism, external trade, transportation, industry, wages, consumption, national product, municipal finances, banks, insurance, social services, health, justice, education, culture, politics, international comparisons. [In Swedish] PDF format.
  Restricted. Access by University of Toronto IP addresses only. See also HB3581 .A3R68 GOVT

• Human fertility in Russia since the nineteenth century (Coale, Ansley J. et al).on Center)

• Medieval and early modern data bank (MEMDB) (Rutgers University. Libraries. Scholarly Communication Center)
  Contains: over 50,000 items taken from print publications published between the 13th and the 18th centuries and include analysis of grain prices and currency exchanges, and the effect that such issues as war had on these important indicators.

• Oxford Latin American economic history database (Oxford University. Latin American Centre)
  Includes: population and demographics, labour force, industry, transportation and communication, external trade, finance, national accounts, consumer and producer price indices, commodity price indices. Annual data, 1900-2000. Output to html and .csv.

• [Sample financial data] (Global Financial Data)
  Includes: selected commodity prices, consumer price indices, exchange rates, government bond yields, sector indices, stock indices, and treasury bill yields. Annual data, free series are mainly 1800-latest.

• Statistical yearbook of the League of Nations (League of Nations and Northwestern University Library):
  Annual, 1926 to 1944. PDF format.

• USSR census, 1939. Robert E. Johnson (Centre for Research in East European Studies (CREES), University of Toronto)
  Includes population, age, ethnicity, education, literacy, marital status, social group, income source, gender, labour force activity, occupation, industry, by rural/urban and Republic/territory/region. Wk4 & txt tables.
  Restricted. Access by University of Toronto IP addresses only.

• Violence and crime in cross-national perspective, 1900-1972.(Archer, Dane & Rosemary Gartner):
  Codebook and data file [Excel format]
  Includes: murder, homicide, manslaughter, rapes, assaults, robberies, thefts, and population, for 156 countries and major cities, 1900-1972, where available.
  Data file is restricted. Access by University of Toronto IP addresses only. See also HB3581 .A3R68 GOVT

• The world at six billion (United Nations. Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Population Division):
  Includes world population from year 0 to 1999, as well as projections, fertility, life expectancy, migration, by continent and selected countries.

  See also:

• Finding Canadian statistics - historical statistics

• Historical microdata around the world (Norwegian Historical Data Centre)

Income

• Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) key figures (Luxembourg Income Study (LIS))
  Includes: gini and Atkinson coefficients, decile ratios and overall poverty rates. as well as additional indicators such as Child Poverty Rates and Elderly Poverty Rates, based on three different poverty lines. 30 countries, number and dates of waves varies. Excel file.

• PovertyNet (World Bank)
  Includes excellent discussions of the main types of data, and sources of data on poverty. Also links to sources of indicators: consumption/income, education, gender, health, children, and other social indicators.

• TransMONEE database. (UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre):
  Alternatives: [Unrestricted download and install], Restricted access to data
  Includes: population by age groups, natality, child and maternal mortality, life expectancy and adult mortality, family formation, health, education, child protection, crime indicators, and economic indicators (Gini coefficients). Twenty-eight central and eastern European, and central Asian countries. 145 indicators. Annual data 1989-2002.
  Restricted access to University of Toronto, Ryerson University, and York University IP addresses.

• World income inequality database (WIID) (UNU-WIDER and United National Development Program (UNDP)): [Unrestricted]
  At University of Toronto v1.0, 2000, v2.0a, 2005, v2.0c, 2008, [Restricted to UT IP addresses]
  Includes: Gini coefficient and quintile and decile shares, survey means and medians along with the income shares of the richest 5% and the poorest 5%. 152 countries. Historical data 1960 and earlier as available. Excel format.

Internet

• Complete guide to Internet statistics and research (Netfirms Web Hosting) 
• Global Internet statistics by language (Global Reach)
• OxIS: Oxford Internet surveys - Reports
• Pew Internet and American life project
  Studies the social impact of the Internet (topics include health, teens, and broadband.
• WebUse: Scientific research on the Internet (University of Maryland, College Park) 
• World Internet Project (WIP)
  Internet use reports from 7 of the 29 countries.

Labour

• Data Repository for the Golden-Wallerstein-Lange Project on Unions, Employers, Collective Bargaining and Industrial Relations for 16 OECD Countries, 1950-2000 (University of California, Los Angeles. Department of Political Science))
  Mainly annual data on unions, employers, industrial relations and collective bargaining in 20 OECD countries from 1950 to 2000. Countries included are Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the US, the UK, and New Zealand.

• International labour migration statistics (International Labor Organisation (ILO))
  Select Statistics/by topic/Other indicators/International Labour Migration Statistics Part of the LABOURSTA database.

• Key indicators of the labour market (KILM) 2007 ed. (International Labor Organisation (ILO))
  core set of 20 labour market indicators that cover various facets of decent work deficits around the world. Include analysis of employment, income and productivity; female labour force participation and fertility; and Millennium Development Goals, decent work and vulnerable employment. Run-time application. Download and install.
  Unrestricted access; Restricted access

• Trade unions in western Europe since 1945 [Ebbinghaus, Bernhard & Jelle Visser. (Societies of Europe; Mannheimer Zentrum für Europaische Sozialforschung, 2000)
  Annual data, 1945-1998 as available. PDF, Excel, Access & dBase files.
  Restricted. Access by University of Toronto IP addresses only.

  See also:

• Migration and remittances [World Bank]

Libraries

• ARL statistics Association of Research Libraries (ARL):
  Contains: collections, staff, expenditures, salaries, students, faculties, degrees awarded. Canadian and U.S. university libraries. Annual data, 1963 to latest.

• Global library statistics 1990-2000. (IFLA. Standing Committee on Statistics. Boston 2001)

Marketing

• Euromonitor International

Miscellaneous

• Great circle distances between capital cities. Haveman, Jon [2009-11-25]

• Great circle distances between two points of latitude and longitude. Byers, John


• in-cites: top 20 country rankings in all fields (Thomson ISI)
  Citation analysis statistics.

• Statistics on international organizations, meetings, problems, strategies (Union of International Associations)
  Statistics on international organizations by year and type. From the Yearbook of international organizations, vol 5. Also statistics on: world problems, strategies, human development, human values. Format PDF. Annual, 1909 - 2003 (selected years prior to 1995 only).

• World refugee survey, statistics. (U.S. Committee for Refugees) 

Public Opinion Polls

• Eurobarometer (European Commission)

• JPOLL: on-line, question-level database of Japanese public opinion (Roper Center)

  See also:

• Finding Canadian, US and international research data: public opinion polls

• The Gallup international public opinion polls, 1937-1975. (3 vols.) At University of Toronto: HN 400 P8G34 GENR

• The international Gallup polls, 1978 & 1979 At University of Toronto: HM 261 G276 and G2763 GENR

• Index to international public opinion, 1979/80 - 1998/99. At University of Toronto: HM 261 I54 GENR

• Polling the nations (ORS Publishing)
  N.B. University of Toronto does not currently subscribe.

Religion

• Adherents.com
  Some historical data. Source notes and cautions. A growing collection of over 43,870 adherent statistics and religious geography citations: references to published membership/adherent statistics and congregation statistics for over 4,200 religions, churches, denominations, religious bod.

• Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA)
  Repackaged from CIA World factbook.

• InfoPlease
  See especially summary page of world religions. No historical statistics. Repackaged from CIA World factbook.

• Mapping the Global Muslim Population (Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life; October 2009)
  Includes the most up-to-date and fully sourced estimates of the size and distribution of the worldwide Muslim population. Interactive maps, data tables and extensive source notes. Current estimates only, no historical statistics.

• United Nations Demographic Yearbook. "Special Census Topics Volume 2 - Social characteristics, Table 6: Population by religion, sex, urban/rural residence and percentage: each census, 1985-2004.' " New York: United Nations Statistics Division, 2006.

• World Religion Database
  Contains detailed statistics on religious affiliation for every country of the world. It provides source material, including censuses and surveys, as well as best estimates for every religion to offer a definitive picture of international religious demography. It offers best estimates at multiple dates for each of the world’s religions for the period 1900 to 2050.
  Subscription database. University of Toronto Libraries do not subscribe.

Sciences

• DOE data explorer (DDE) (U.S. Department of Energy)
  

  Use the DOE Data Explorer (DDE) to find scientific research data - such as computer simulations, numeric data files, figures and plots, interactive maps, multimedia, and scientific images - generated in the course of DOE-sponsored research in various science disciplines. The DOE Data Explorer includes a database of citations prepared by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) based on the information found at data-hosting Web sites. It is intended to be particularly useful to students, the public, and to researchers who are new to a field or looking for experimental or observational data outside their normal field of expertise.

• LOGKOW: a databank of evaluated octanol-water partition coefficients (LogP) (Sangster Research Laboraties)
  Contains experimental data, retrieved from the literature, on over 20,000 organic compounds. Besides partition coefficients, other stored information includes IUPAC names, CAS Registry Numbers, pKa values, S.M.I.L.E.S. notation, experimental conditions of measurement (summarized), recommended Log Kow, and a full bibliography in Chemical Abstracts style.

• Mycotox (Taylor, Alan)
  The Mycotox file contains a list of fungi, the mycotoxins (toxic metabolites, or metabolites closely related chemically to such toxins) they have been found to produce, and citations to the articles which describes this finding. It is intended for use by mycologists and chemists and assumes a working knowledge of mycology and/or natural product chemistry by its users.

Social Conditions

• OECD family database (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD))
  Includes: cross-national indicators on the situation of families and children, on family outcomes and family policies with indicators for all OECD countries. The database brings together information from different OECD databases (for example, the OECD Social Expenditure database, the OECD Benefits and Wages database, or the OECD Education database, and databases maintained by other (international) organisations. Most tables are single-pont in time, ca 2003. PDF and xls formats.

• TransMONEE database. (UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre):
  Alternatives: [Unrestricted download and install], Restricted access to data
  Includes: population by age groups, natality, child and maternal mortality, life expectancy and adult mortality, family formation, health, education, child protection, crime indicators, and economic indicators (Gini coefficients). Twenty-eight central and eastern European, and central Asian countries. 145 indicators. Annual data 1989-2002.
  Restricted access to University of Toronto, Ryerson University, and York University IP addresses.

Telecommunications

• Areacodeworld gold edition (Hexa Software Development Center) May 2006
  Telecommunications database targeted specifically toward disseminating all valid NPA/NXX combinations in the North American Numbering Plan. It covers all active North American NPA/NXX assignments. Included in the database are NPA (area code), NXX (exchange), country, state, county, latitude, longitude, LATA, time zone, day light saving, population, FIPS, MSA, PMSA, CBSA, ZIP code, Operating Company Number, use type, rate center, COMMON LANGUAGE identifier, and V&H.
  Restricted. Access by University of Toronto IP addresses only.

• ICT: free statistics (International Telecommunication Union)
  Population, GDP, total telephone subscribers and total telephone subscribers per 100 people, main telephone lines, mobile cellular, Internet hosts, users, numbers of PCs. Annual statistics, some historical. Format PDF.

• Information and communication technologies tables (World Bank)
  The tables presented here are versions of the ones featured in the World Bank publication Information and Communications for Development 2009: Extending Reach and Increasing Impact, produced by the Global Information and Communication Technologies Department and the Development Economics Data Group. The ICT tables provide key data on information and communications technologies, with sections on economic and social context, ICT sector structure, and ICT sector performance. [2009-11-13]

• World telecommunications/ICT indicators database (International Telecommunication Union (ITU)) 2009/02 ed.
  Restricted access to University of Toronto IP addresses only.

Tourism

• Facts & figures (World Tourism Organization (UNWTO))
  Includes: international tourist arrivals, receipts (Euro and US$), by region and country. Some historical data from 1950.

Trade

• International trade data (Haveman, Jon)
  Includes: NBER Data, Penn World Tables, Trade and Immigration Dataset, Import data , Manufacturing Productivity Database. , Tariff Data , Useful Gravity Model Data , Trade Price Data , Goods Classification , Rauch Product Differentiation Codes , 1997 Commodity Flow Survey [2009-11-25]

• International trade statistics (World Trade Organization (WTO))
  International trade in merchandise and commercial services; tariff data at the HS 6-digit level. Annual, 1980 to [latest]. Download to Excel, .csv and .xml formats.

• UN commodity trade statistics database (UN Comtrade)

• UNCTAD handbook of statistics (UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development):
  Statistics on international trade in merchandise and services, commodities, foreign direct investment, workers' remittances, tourism, international reserves, financial flows, foreign debt, GDP, indicators of development, telecommunication indicators, concentration and instability indices, tariff rates.
  Restricted access to University of Toronto IP addresses only.

• UNCTAD statistics in brief. (UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development)) 
  Statistics on international trade, commodities, and foreign direct investment. Some historical statistics (5 years).

• UNCTAD-TRAINS (Trade analysis and information system) cd-rom. (UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development): 
  Trade and tariff data, 6-digit harmonized system, one year (reference year) of data only.

• World Trade Indicators (World Bank)
  An interactive tool designed to benchmark a country’s trade policy and institutions. The WTI 2008 database is organized in five thematic categories, namely Trade Policy, External Environment, Institutional Environment, Trade Facilitation and Trade Outcome. Each category contains a main indicator and other reference indicators. Countries’ trade performance can be examined individually as well as in relation to other countries or country groupings, including by membership of trade agreements. To capture the key insights from both the indicators and country-level trade-related analytical work, Country Briefs and Trade at-a-Glance (TAAG) tables are also are provided.

Urbanization

• Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants (United Nations. Statistics Division):
  Reference year for data varies.

• UN-HABITAT (United Nations Human Settlements Programme):
  • Global report on human settlements 1986 thru latest. See statistical annex in each volume.
  • City profiles, 2001
    Includes: location, geography, historical development, regional significance, shelter, social development, environmental management, economic development, governance, international co-operation.
  • Global urban indicators, 1993, 1998, 2001
    Also available at: 1993, 1998 Restricted access to University of Toronto, Ryerson University and York University IP addresses only.
  • Human settlements statistical database, the Data house, and slum estimates data
  • UrbanInfo

  See also: On-line resources for urban areas/cities (UT/DLS, 2005/09/21)

Statistical sources on the United States

Directories of resources

• Data.gov
  The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government. Data.gov includes searchable catalogs that provide access to "raw" datasets and various tools. In the "raw" data catalog, you may access data in XML, Text/CSV, KML/KMZ, Feeds, XLS, or ESRI Shapefile formats. The catalog of tools links you to sites that include data mining and extraction tools and widgets. Datasets and tools available on Data.gov are searchable by category, agency, keyword, and/or data format. Once in the catalog, click on the "name" (i.e, the name of the dataset or tool of interest) and you will be taken to a page with more details and metadata on that specific dataset or tool. [2009-06-08]

• Explore GovDocs (University of Michigan. Documents Center)
  Formerly Grace York's Statistical resources on the Web. [2009-08-05]

• Federal Web Locator (Villanova Center for Information Las and Policy, Auburn University)
  Directory of online federal government information.

• FEDSTATS (U.S. Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy)
  Searchable access to statistics from over 70 agencies of the U.S. government.

• Frequently used sites related to U.S. federal government information (Larry Romans & Amy Stewart-Mailhiot, ALA/GODORT/FDTF)

• GovInfo: government on the Web (UBC Library)

• Health Statistics Research Guide (University of Toronto. Gerstein Science Information Centre) 

• Government Documents (Idaho State University Library)

• Social, economic and political change: free data (Shackman, Gene)

• Social science data extractors (University of Wisconsin-Madison. Center for Demography and Ecology): 

  See also:

• ArchiveGrid

• CyberCemetery (University of North Texas Libraries & U.S. Government Printing Office)

• Index to international statistics: IIS./ Congressional Information Service Inc. Bethesda, Md: Congressional Information Service, 1986 - . (At UofT: HA 154 I64 1986 GOVT) Continued by: Statistical masterfile [cd-rom], 1983 - . (At UofT: in GOVT)

• Statistical information guide (American University Library):
  Links to US statistical resources. [2009-06-17]

General resources

• County and city data books, 1944-2000 (U.S. Census Bureau via University of Virginia Library)

• Counting California (University of California)
  Links to US Census of Population and housing; State of California Department of Finance data and statistics.

• Cybercemetery (University of North Texas Libraries & U.S. Government Printing Office)
  Provides permanent public access to the Web sites and publications of defunct U.S. government agencies and commissions.

• DRI basic economics [formerly, Citibase] (Global Insight)
  [Restricted to UT IP addresses] The database contains over 7900 monthly, quarterly, or annual time series ending with the latest available observation and going back to 1946, if available. The data are on a national level, taken from over one hundred U.S. Government and private publications. All revisions (of data, concepts, and coverage) made by source agencies are incorporated into the databank.

• Google public data explorer (Google)
  Interactive visualization of statistics on U.S. and Europe, including unemployment, prices, wages, diseases, etc. [2010-05-14]

• LexisNexis statistical (LexisNexis)
  LexisNexis Statistical enables easy access to statistics produced by the U.S. government, major international intergovernmental organizations, professional and trade organizations, commercial publishers, independent research organizations, state government agencies, and universities. Every table is linked to an abstract, which in turn contains a link to the full-text source document. The University of Toronto subscribes to:
  • LexisNexis Statistical Base Edition
  • LexisNexis Statistical Research Edition
  • American Statistics Index
  • Index to International Statistics

• State and metropolitan area data book: 1997-1998, 2006 (U.S. Census Bureau)
  The Data Book contains a collection of statistics on social and economic conditions in the United States at the State and metropolitan area levels. Selected data for component counties and central cities of metropolitan areas are also included. [lgmr; 2009-05-15]

• State politics & policy quarterly data resource (State politics & policy quarterly (SPPQ))

• Statistical abstract of the United States, 1878 - . (U.S. Bureau of the Census):
  Basic summary statistics in all areas in which the U.S. Bureau of the Census and other key government agencies collect statistics.

• Stat-USA/Internet. (U.S. Department of Commerce)
  University of Toronto does not subscribe.

• United States historical census data browser, 1790-1970. (ICPSR)

• USA counties, 1998. (U.S. Bureau of the Census)

Demography

• Census of population and housing (U.S. Census Bureau): 1990, 2000
  See also:
  • Introduction to the 2000 Census
  • American FactFinder guide
  • American FactFinder tutorial

• DataFinder formerly Ameristat (Population Reference Bureau)
  Includes: children, education, estimates and projections, fertility, foreign born, income, poverty, labour, employment, marriage, family, migration, mortality, older population, race, ethnicity.

• Immigration statistics by state, 1999 -  (RAND Corporation)

• MPI data hub: country and comparative data (Migration Policy Institute)
  Micration facts, statistics, and maps, from around the world. [2010-05-14]

• National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS) (University of Minnesota)
  In spring 2007 contained 1970 thru 2000 census of population and housing, STF-1 thru STF-4. Intend over time to add all available aggregate US census data. Registration required. Use Internet Explorer

• Neighbourhood Change Database (NCDB), 1970-2000: Tract Data (Long-form release). GeoLytics, Inc. Available upon request in the Map and Data Library, 5th floor, Robarts. Contact Map and Data Library
  The NCDB contains 1970, 1980, 1990, and 2000 US Census data with details such as: population, household, and housing characteristics, income, poverty status, education level, employment, housing costs, immigration, and other variables. Users can produce maps of populations and landmass. The database allows researchers to access these data using Census 2000 tract boundaries thus providing meaningful comparisons among multiple census years. The NCDB can be used to generate GIS shapefiles for selected areas as well.

• Social explorer (State University of New York SUNY, Queen's College)
  Historical census data for the United States through the use of interactive maps and reports. Census data from 1940 to 2000, mainly census tract but also some county-level. Also time-series race maps for New York and Los Angeles.

• Statistical data on aging (AARP. AgeLine Research Center)

• 2000+ (University of Albany. Center for Social and Demographic Analysis and the Lewis Muymford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional Research)
  National county-level map-based information system developed with ArcIMS to display post-Census 2000 information, including the annual American Community Surveys and Census Bureau estimates. 2000+ supports comparisons across counties, and change since 2000, for a wide range of data, including immigration, race, economic, housing, education, veteran status, age and disability, poverty, and household composition.

• Vital statistics of the United States (VSUS) (U.S. National Center for Health Statistics) 
  Data range 1980-1999.

  See also:

• Census data availability by topic (NHGIS)

Economics and finance

• Bureau of Economic Analysis: Methodology Papers (U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis)
  Descriptions of the methodologies used to prepare BEA's National, Industry, Regional, and International accounts data.



• Business cycle indicators data 1997 ed. plus updates (Conference Board)

• County business patterns (U.S. Census Bureau)
  University of Virginia. Geospatial and Statistical Data Center interface
  At NHGIS [1970-2003]
  Includes: data down to the 4 digit SIC level. CD-ROMs containing 4 digit SIC data for 1986-1997. Beginning in 1998, data are tabulated by industry as defined in the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).
  Pre-1970 versions from Rand Corp (1962-1969) and ICPSR (1967, 1969)

• Economic data - FRED II (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)

• Economic and financial data for the United States (Fedstats)

• Economic indicators (US Department of Commerce. Economics and Statistics Administration)

• Federal Reserve Board:
  • Data Download
    Includes: commercial paper, flow of funds accounts, industrial production and capacity utilization, selected interest rates.
  • Economic research and data
    Includes: bank asset quality, bank assets and liabilities, bank structure data, business finances, exchange rates and international data, flow of funds accounts, household finance, industrial activity, interest rates, money stock and reserve balances, etc. Historical data, some to 1945. Annual, quarterlyr, monthly, weekly and daily data.

• Fixed Assets Account Tables (U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA))
  Contains: detailed estimates of residential and nonresidential fixed assets and consumer durable goods. Data are annual, 1925 onwards. 

• Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by Industry (U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA))
  Includes: value-added, gross output and shipments by NAICS 1998-2004 and 1947-1997; GDP by SIC 1947-1997. Annual data. Excel format files.

• Gross state product quarterly data, 1977-2005 (e-forecasting): data and GSP white paper.
  Includes: real GDP, nominal GDP, and price index for GDP history. States in the U.S. Quarterly data, 1977-2005q3. Excel format.
  Restricted. Access by University of Toronto IP addresses only.

• Industrial Research and Development Survey (National Science Foundation)
  Industrial R&D data published by NSF. Annual data, 1953-2007. Superceded by Business R&D and Innovation Survey.

• Frequently requested long time-series data (University of Delaware. Library)

• Input-output tables (OECD)

  
  

• Manufacturing industry database (National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) & U.S. Census Bureau. Center for Economic Studies (CES)): 
  Contains: annual industry-level data on output, employment, payroll and other input costs, investment, capital stocks, TFP, and various industry-specific price indexes. The database covers all 4-digit manufacturing industries from 1958-1996, in two versions: 1987 SIC codes (459 industries) and 1972 SIC codes (448 industries).
  Annual data. Stata, SAS, dBase, Excel, ascii, and csv formats.

• Measuring Worth
  Historic data on key economic aggregates.
  

• National Economic Accounts (U.S. Department of Commerce. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)) 

• STAT-USA/Internet (U.S. Department of Commerce. Economics & Statistics Administration)
  University of Toronto does not currently subscribe.

• Survey of Current Business (U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis)

• U.S. Bureau of Labour Statistics
  Includes employment and unemployment, prices and living conditions, compensation and working conditions, productivity and technology, and regional resources.

• US economic data (EconStats)

• Yahoo! finance
  Includes: major international and US stock indices, and commodities futures. Also historical prices, beginning dates vary.

See also:

• Browse Topics: Business & Economy - Census (Oklahoma State University) 

• Business & economics numeric data (Mansfield University. North Hall Library): 

• DismalScientist: Economics Made Clear

• Economic-indicators.com: web sites for tracking the U.S. economy (Mark Rogers)

• Long time-series data: a research guide (University of Delaware. Library)

• MacRae's blue books
  Directory of industrial and manufacturing products

• RFE: Resources for Economists on the Internet (Bill Goffe)

Education

• Common core of data (CCD) (National Center for Education Statistics (IES))
  Fiscal and non-fiscal data about all public schools, public school districts and state education agencies in the United States. The data are supplied by state education agency officials and include information that describes schools and school districts, including name, address, and phone number; descriptive information about students and staff, including demographics; and fiscal data, including revenues and current expenditures.

• Open doors (Instite of International Education (IIE))

• Statistical resources (University of California, Berkeley. Education-Psychology Library)

Election results

• Atlas of United States presidential election results (David Leip)
  Including county-level election results. 1789 to latest. State, county, and town-level FIPS codes are available, some for purchase on cd-rom.
• CQ Press databases: voting and elections collections:
  University of Toronto Libraries does not subscribe.

• Election Data Services, Inc.:
  Current products include election returns and voting statistics, district boundary files, a ZIP+DISTRICT file linking postal ZIP Codes to district boundaries, data on voting equipment usage, contact information for state and local election officials, and an election poster with maps showing the results of November general elections for President, U.S. Senator, and U.S. Representative, governorships and state legislatures. Election Data Services has also developed GIS software — PRECIS Precinct Information System — for election officials to manage voting precincts and assign voters to precincts and districts. Data for purchase only. [2009-06-17]
• Political and demographic data sets for sale (Polidata)
  Including presidential results by congressional district, by county, and demographics by congressional district and county. 1980 to latest.
• Political database of the Americas (Georgetown University & Organization of American States (OAS)): 

Health statistics

• CDC Wonder (U.S. Centers for Disease Control) 

• Health data interactive (U.S. National Center for Health Statistics. Centers for Disease Control (CDC))
  Contains: tables with national health statistics for infants, children, adolescents, adults, and older adults. Tables can be customized by age, gender, race/ethnicity, and geographic location.

• Health statistics (U.S. National Library of Medicine. MedlinePlus) 

Historical statistics

• Baldwin-Green study Canada-US census of industry, 1867-1940 Green, A. & J. Baldwin, Queen's University
  

• Historical census browser, 1790-1960 (University of Virginia. Geostat Center)

• Historical statistics of the United States, colonial times to 1970 (U.S. Census Bureau):
  Restricted. Access by University of Toronto IP addresses only.

• National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS) (University of Minnesota)
  Currently contains only 1990 census of population and housing, STF-1 thru STF-4. Intend over time to add all available aggregate US census data. Registration required.

• Selected historical decennial census population and housing counts, 1790-1990 (U.S. Census Bureau)

• Social explorer (State University of New York SUNY, Queen's College)
  Historical census data for the United States through the use of interactive maps and reports. Census data from 1940 to 2000, mainly census tract but also some county-level. Also time-series race maps for New York and Los Angeles.

• Statistical abstract [United States], 1878-latest & historicla editions (U.S. Census Bureau)

Labour

• County business patterns (U.S. Census Bureau, via University of Virginia. Geospatial and Statistical Data Center):
  University of Virginia Library interface
  At NHGIS, 1970-2003
  Includes: data down to the 4 digit SIC level. CD-ROMs containing 4 digit SIC data for 1986-1997. Beginning in 1998, data are tabulated by industry as defined in the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).
  SIC/NAICS code, number of employees, payroll, number of establishments by size category. Annual data, 1988-[latest]. U.S. summary, state, and county level files. CSV format.
  N.B.: files from 1967, 1969, and 1977 to 1999, with additional detail for establishment size categories, are available from ICPSR.

Miscellaneous

• ACCRA cost of living index (ACCRA)
  Cost of living for total, groceries, housing, utilities, transportation, health, miscellaneous, average rent and average house price, based on national average in each category. Latest only, no historical data.

• Metropolitan quality of life data (Harvard University. DiversityData.org): 
  Includes: population demographics and diversity, health, housing opportunities, economic opportunities, education, residential integration and neighbourhood characteristics, crime, and physical environment. Some statistics are 1990 and 2000, others are latest available. Most are derived statistics: ranks, rates, percentages. Printable and map output.

• NCDC Storm Event database (U.S. NOAA Satellite and Information Service & U.S. Department of Commerce. National Climatic Data Center)
  Includes: date, event type, size of hail, high wind speed, number of injuries, number Of deaths, amount of property damage $, amount of crop damage $. All Weather Events from 1993 - 1995, as entered into Storm Data. (Except 6/93 - 7/93, which is missing) (NO Latitude/Longitude); All Weather Events from 1996 - Current, as entered into Storm Data. (Including Latitude/Longitude)[2009-12-16]

• Zipcodeworld United States gold edition (Hexa Software Development Center) May 2006.
  Includes: zip and area codes, geographic identifiers, latitude, longitude, elevation, and selected US Census 2000 race, income and house value characteristics.
  Restricted. Access by University of Toronto IP addresses only.

Public opinion polls

• Eagleton poll archive (State University of New Jersey, Rutgers)

• iPOLL: on-line, question-level database of US public opinion (Roper Center)
  Restricted to UT IP addresses Individual user registration required.
  (Prior to 2008, this database was also available in LexisNexis as Public opinion online or Public opinion location library. And in Dialog as file number 468. Dialog is no longer available at the University of Toronto.)

• Polling the nations
  Subscription service. University of Toronto does not subscribe.

  See also:

• Finding Canadian, US and international research data: public opinion polls

• The Gallup poll cumulative index, 1935-1997. At University of Toronto: HN 90 P8G29 GENR

• The Gallup poll 1972/75 - [latest]. At University of Toronto: HN 90 P8G33 GENR

Trade

• Commodity flow survey (U.S. Census Bureau)
  Includes: inter-state trade flows, showing commodity and mode of transportation. 1997 and 1993.

• Interactive tariff and trade web (U.S. International Trade Commission)
  Registration required.

  See also:

• US merchandise trade statistics, 1948-2000 (US. Library of Congress. Congressional research service; CRS report 98-536)

Transportation

• North American Transportation Statistics (NATS) Database 
  Includes: country overview (Canada, Mexico, USA), transportation and the economy, safely, energy and the environment, domestic freight activity, North American merchandise trade, international merchandise trade between North America and the rest of the world, domestic passenger travel, North American passenger travel, international passenger travel between North America and the rest of the workd, transportation infrastructure, transportation vehicles. Most data are annual, 1990, 1995 - latest.

Sources of statistics on other countries

Directories

• Country statistical yearbooks (University of Wisconsin, Madison. Libraries)
  Links to country statistical yearbooks or similar collections (census, "facts and figures," etc.) for 132 countries worldwide.

• Downloadable data by subject (University of Edinburgh. Data Library) 

• GovInfo: government on the Web (University of British Columbia. Library)

• OFFSTATS: official statistics on the Web (Rainer Wolcke, International Commerce & Statistics Librarian, University of Auckland Library)
  Links to international and national WWW-based sources of official statistics.

• Statistical agencies (international) (U.S. Census Bureau)

• Statistics: national agencies and compendia (B. Boling, Vanderbilt University Libraries)
  Indicates whether a yearbook/statistical abstract is available from each country's statistical agency.

Africa

• Africa summary briefings (World Bank)
  Indicators in the areas of agriculture, education, environment, financial, gender, health, infrastructure, nutrition, population, poverty, power, PSD/manufacturing, and public sector management. Also SPA, CAS, AAG reports, and short term estimates. Excel format output files.

• Gender, poverty, and environmental indicators on African countries (African Development Bank)
  Includes population estimates, fertility, contraception, life expectance, illiteracy, schooling, gender empowerment, human development index, income distribution, nutrition, health status, mortality trends, housing conditions, urbanization, land use, water resources, industrial emissions, energy use, etc. PDF format. Most tables contain 1971, 1980, 2000.

• World Bank Africa database 2001 (World Bank)
  Current statistics only, no historical statistics, although date of current statistics varies.

Austria

• Statistisches Jahrbuch Österreichs (Österreichisches Statistisches Zentralamt)
  Available years: 2001-2004, 2009. English and German text. PDF and xls formats.

China

• China data online (University of Michigan. China Data Center)
  Includes: census aggregate statistics, census data, some microdata, economic census, GRID data and township boundaries, some historical statistics 1978-2007.
  About China Data Online (available via University of Toronto. Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library)
  Restricted. Access by University of Toronto IP addresses only.

• China dimensions (Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN). SEDAC)
  Includes: population, agriculture, hospitals and epidemology stations. Some data are county level.

• China statistical data
  Monthly Statistics Data Base. The Data Base is aimed to provide timely Chinese macro-economic monthly statistics. All data are collected from the National Bureau of Statistics.

• CEIC data: premium China database (ISI Emerging Markets):
  Includes: national accounts, government and public finance, demographic and labour market, domestic trade and household survey, inflation, foreign trade & balance of payments, monetary, interest and foreign exchange rates, investment, price, financial markets China data from 1997 to latest, annual. National, provincial and some municipal data. Includes similar data on India.
  At University of Toronto, available on two workstations in Joseph L. Rotman Business Information Centre.

• China historical GIS (Harvard University)
  Includes population by 1999 administrative areas.

• China statistical yearbook (China. National Bureau of Statistics of China)
  Annual statistics, 1996-[latest].

  See also:

• Finding China data & statistics (A. Lui, UT/DLS, 2010-02-26)
  Commented links to resources on China, both aggregate statistics and microdata resources.

Great Britain

• biz/ed: Data (University of Bristol. Institute for Learning and Research Technology)
  Includes: time series data from UK Office of National Statistics (ONS), including labour market data, average earnings index data, etc., basic financial accounts for 500 leading companies (3 years of data in most cases), Penn world tables, company reports for 16 UK companies (one year of data), U.S. Bureau of the Census International data base of population statistics, and chronologies of national and international events of significance in the 1970s through the 1990s.

• British history, 1790-1980 database (Author: B.R. Michell; Distributor: Statistics for Education)
  MS Excel format.
  Restricted. Access by University of Toronto IP addresses only.




• British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service (BOPCRIS) 
  Search and browse information from British official publications from 1688-1995.

• Census of population 1981 - . (U.K. Office of National Statistics):
  • 2001 census
    Aggregate statistics at national, local authority, and neighbourhood levels. age, living arrangements, marital status, education, health, family, work, ethnicity and religion, housing.
  • Neighbourhood statistics (Great Britain. National Statistics)
    Socio-economic statistics for a variety of topics, by local authority, ward, region, health authority, education authority, Westminster Parliamentary constituency, etc. Select by name of area, postal code, or topic. Most statistics are one year of data (2001) only.
  • Report for Parliamentary Constituencies [Restricted to UT IP addresses]
  • NOMIS web site contains selected tables of aggregate statistics at small areas of geography for 1981, 1991 and 2001 census. [Use the 'Advanced query' option]
    
  • 1991 census:
  • Key statistics for local authorities [Restricted to UT IP addresses]
  • New parliamentary constituency monitor & European parliamentary constituency monitor [Restricted to UT IP addresses]
  • NOMIS web site contains selected tables of aggregate statistics at small areas of geography for 1981, 1991 and 2001 census. [Use the 'Advanced query' option]
    
  • 1981 census:
  • NOMIS web site contains selected tables of aggregate statistics at small areas of geography for 1981, 1991 and 2001 census. [Use the 'Advanced query' option]

• Great Britain historical GIS project (Humphrey Southall)

• NOMIS: official labour market statistics (Great Britain. National Statistics)
  Labour market profiles for local authorities, wards, and parliamentary constituencies.

• Statistical accounts of Scotland
  Includes 1791-99, 1845.

• Time-series data (Great Britain. National Statistics)
  Database of 40,000+ time-series.

• Timeweb

  Includes: Consumer Spending, Transport, Alcoholic drink, Population, Crime, Meat, Coal, Tourism, Cigarettes and Tobacco, Work and unemployment, Economic output, Exchange rates, Balance of payments, Prices, Money supply, Credit and Interest Rate. Annual data, some series 1945-latest available.

• United Kingdom. Yearbook 2001 - . (U.K. Office of National Statistics)

• Vision of Britain: History of the Census of Population
  See also: 1961 Census SAS explanatory notes

Hong Kong

• Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited
  Includes financial statistics of individual companies trading on HK Stock Exchange. 

India

• CEIC data (ISI Emerging Markets):
  Includes: national accounts, government and public finance, demographic and labour market, domestic trade and household survey, inflation, foreign trade & balance of payments, monetary, interest and foreign exchange rates, investment, price, financial markets. Similar data available for China.
  At University of Toronto, available on two workstations in Joseph L. Rotman Business Information Centre.

• Census of India, 2001:
  • National-level and selected state-level data only: [Unrestricted, official Census of India web site]
  • State, district, village and ward level statistics: Aggregate statistics [Restricted to UT IP addresses]
• Census of India, 1991:
  • Regional divisions of India - a cartographic analysis (Occassional papers, series-1)
    Selected states only. [Restricted to UT IP addresses]

Japan

• Japan statistical yearbook 2002
  Files are .html and .xls format.
  Restricted. Access by University of Toronto IP addresses only.

Latin America & Caribbean

• Lanic: statistics (University of Texas at Austin. Latin American Network Information Center) 

• Latin American statistical sources (Cornell University. Library. Latin American & Caribbean Government Documents Project) 

• Anuario estadistico de america latina y el caribe/Statistical yearbook for Latin America and the Caribbean, (United Nations. CEPAL)
  1997 - current; 2002 [Restricted]

• Oxford Latin American economic history database (OxLAD) (Oxford University. Latin American Centre)
  Includes: population and demographics, labour force, industry, transportation and communication, external trade, finance, national accounts, consumer and producer price indices, commodity price indices. Annual data, 1900-2000. Output to html and .csv.

• SEDLAC: Socio-economic database for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEDLAS and The World Bank)
  Includes: Household Surveys, Incomes, Poverty, Inequality (incl gini coefficients), Demographics, Education, Employment, Housing, Infrastructure, Durables Goods and Services, Poverty-Alleviation Programs, Aggregate Welfare, Pro-Poor Growth. Annual data, start and end dates vary (some 1987-2005). Excel files. See also:

• Economic and social indicators for eighteen Latin American nations, 1960-1971 (ICPSR 5303)
  Includes: gross national product (GNP), gross investment, domestic revenues, tax revenues, expenditures, price index, electric power production, agricultural production, and membership in consumer, credit, and agricultural cooperatives. Data are also provided for population characteristics, such as total population, school enrollment, student-teacher ratio, persons-physician ratio, persons-nurse ratio, and persons-hospital bed ratio. [rev. 2010-01-07] Restricted

• Political database of the Americas (Georgetown University. Center for Latin American Studies & Organization of American States (OAS))
  Includes: ; Constitutions and Comparative Constitutional Study , Constitutions by Country , Comparative Constitutional Study , Reference Materials ; Executive Branch , Comparative Constitutional Norms , Cabinets by Country , Links to Ministries , Chronology of Presidents , Reference Materials ; Legislative Branch , Comparative Constitutional Norms , Legislative Institutions , Reference Materials ; Judicial Branch , Comparative Constitutional Norms , Judicial Institutions , Reference Materials ; Electoral Systems and Data , Comparative Constitutional Norms , Electoral Results , Electoral Calendar , National Electoral Institutes , Electoral Laws , Reference Materials ; Political Parties , Comparative Constitutional Norms , Political Parties by Country , Political Party Laws , Reference Materials ; Decentralization and Local Governance , Comparative Constitutional and Legislative Study , Reference Materials ; Democracy and Citizen Security , Citizen Security , Conflict Prevention , Transnational Organized Crime , Reference Materials ; Indigenous Peoples and Democracy , Glossary , Demographic Trends , Legal Framework

Lithuania

• Statistical yearbook of Lithuania: 2006, 2002, 2001
  Files are .html format.
  Restricted. Access by University of Toronto IP addresses only.

Mexico

• INEGI biblioteca digital (Institute Nacional de Estadistica, Geografia e Informatica)
  Statistical yearbooks and tables, circa 1999-latest.

• North American transportation statistics (NATS) database 
  Includes: country overview (Canada, Mexico, USA), transportation and the economy, safely, energy and the environment, domestic freight activity, North American merchandise trade, international merchandise trade between North America and the rest of the world, domestic passenger travel, North American passenger travel, international passenger travel between North America and the rest of the workd, transportation infrastructure, transportation vehicles. Most data are annual, 1990, 1995 - latest.

Poland

• Polish regional database./ University of Strathclyde. Centre for the Study of Public Policy (CSPP)
  Includes: ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS Consumer goods, % with all 3: TV, VCR, car, Current economic situation of Poland good, Expect living standard better next year, Gross domestic product, Gross domestic product per capita in zlotys, Monthly disposable income/head, zlotys, Present household living standard good, Value added (gross) per capita in zlotys, LABOUR MARKET CHANGE Have second job, Job is secure, Private sector, % working population, Registered employment rate, Working in services, SOCIAL COHESION AND STABILITY Area where I live is calm and safe, Believe situation is going in right direction, Health is good, Hospital beds per 10,000 inhabitants, Life expectancy: men, Life expectancy: women, Students per 10,000 inhabitants.
  Select: Site guide / Regions / Poland

Russia

• Russian regional database./ University of Strathclyde. Centre for the Study of Public Policy (CSPP)
  Includes: ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS: Consumer goods, Current household economy not bad, Current national economy not bad, GDP 1995, GDP/capita, Industrial productivity, Wage levels, Wages paid in full in previous month, LABOUR MARKET CHANGE: Employed: % labour force, Employer: ex-state, Employer: private, Employer: state, Employment sector: agriculture, Employment sector: industrial, Employment sector: services, Have second job previous month, Job is secure, Prepared to move to find a job, SOCIAL COHESION, EXCLUSION, STABILITY: Expect life to improve next year, Hospital beds per 10,000, Life expectancy in years by sex, Life is bearable, Population change, Read newspapers regularly, Students in higher education, regional voting results in 1999 Duma election.
  Select: Site guide / Regions / Russia

• Human fertility in Russia since the nineteenth century (Coale, Ansley J. et al).on Center):

• UIS RUSSIA. University Information System RUSSIA
  Includes: RF state agency publications, mass media, think tank reports, SocioNet, sociological data. Registration required. Full text holdings. Requires Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher.

• USSR census, 1939. Robert E. Johnson (Centre for Research in East European Studies (CREES), University of Toronto)
  Includes population, age, ethnicity, education, literacy, marital status, social group, income source, gender, labour force activity, occupation, industry, by rural/urban and Republic/territory/region. Wk4 & txt tables.
  Restricted. Access by University of Toronto IP addresses only.

Singapore

• Statistics on Singapore: an annotated bibliography of sources (National University of Singapore Libraries): 

Sweden

• Statistical yearbook of Sweden (Sweden. Statistiska Centralbyrån)
  Restricted. Access by University of Toronto IP addresses only.

• Sveriges statistiska databaser (Sweden. Statistiska Centralbyrån)

Switzerland

• Politischer Atlas der Schweiz: daten und Karten zu den Nationalsratswahlen und den eidgenössischen Volksabstimmungen 1866-2004; Atlas politique de la Suisse: données et cartes sur les élections au Conseil national et les voltations popularies fédérales 1866-2004 (Switzerland. Office fédéral de la statistique/Bundesamt für Statistik)
  Note: for access to the interactive atlas, contact Data & GIS Centre for access to original cd-rom.
  Restricted. Access by University of Toronto IP addresses only.