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International Statistics: Organizations and Government Publications

A guide to finding statistics from other regions and countries throughout the world

International Organizations and Government Agencies

Worldwide

  • International Trade Statistics Yearbook (Comtrade)
    A publication from the United Nations Statistics Division/ Department of Economic and Social Affairs, with statistics on imports and exports by country and region.
  • UIS (UNESCO Institute for Statistics) Data Centre
    Education, science, culture, and communication statistics worldwide, from the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
  • FAO Statistical Yearbooks
    International agriculture statistics from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
  • FAOSTAT
    Browse, compare, and download agricultural data for 245 countries and 35 regional areas from 1961 through the most recent year available.
  • FAO Country Profiles
    Nearly 180 country agricultural and economic profiles and quick-fact country briefs are available.
  • UNSD Statistical Databases - Statistical databases from the United Nations Statistics Division.  See also their list of links to other UN and international statistics organizations.
  • CIA World Factbook - Basic statistics about each country of the world, from the United States Central Intelligence Agency.
  • BASEIND Database - (BAsic Social and Economic INDicators) Database, with social and economic statistics for Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) countries (includes countries in multiple continents).

Europe

  • Eurostat - The European Union's statistical office: find population, economic, environmental statistics for the continent.
  • UNECE Statistics - Statistics from the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe.

Africa

Asia

  • Asian Development Bank Statistics - Economic and social statistics for member countries of the Asian Development Bank.
  • StatsAPEC - Economic and social statistics for countries in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) - includes mostly Asian countries, but also some in the Americas on the eastern Pacific.
  • ASEAN Statistics - Economic statistics from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

Americas

  • CARICOM Statistics - Statistics on member countries of CARICOM (Caribbean Community).
  • CEPALSTAT - Statistics of Latin American and Caribbean countries, from the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.
  • Statistics Canada - Economic and social statistics from the Government of Canada