Government Information: International statistics

U.S. Bilateral Relations Fact Sheets - formerly known as Background Notes contain factual information on countries of the world with which the United States has relations. Note the date next to each entry to know when the information was last updated. Entries include data on land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and its relations with other countries and the United States.

Provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities, as of 2018.

Browse by country name or search across all countries or any combination of countries. Covers history, geography, population, ethnicity, education, health, religion, economy, government, politics, military, and more.

From the Statistical Office of the European Commission. Many publications, data sets, and tables available for free.

Links to all statistics programmes of the United Nations, of the United Nations Specialized Agencies (FAO, ILO, IMF, etc), and selected Autonomus Organizations (Eurostat, World Trade Organization, OECD, etc).

Current indicators for Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.

Provides data by topic, e.g. health, education/training, information, communication, energy, environment, finance, technology, social welfare, etc. From the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

Links to official statistics. Searchable by country, region, topic.

Provides data on 137 population, health, and environment variables for more than 220 countries, 28 world regions and sub-regions, and the world as a whole. (Not all countries have data on all variables.)

A statistical database maintained by the Statistical Division of the UNECE (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe) Secretariat. Contains statistics on gender, human settlements, economic trends, robotics, gas, demographics, etc. For Europe and North America.

Links to the following unrestricted databases: Millennium Indicators, Social Indicators, City Populations, Good Practices and InfoNation. From the United Nations Statistical Division.

Contains tables of demographic, and socio-economic data for 227 countries and areas of the world. Searchable by variables and dates covered.

Provides recent and background political situation and events; economic forecasting; status of education, health, public funding, communications, Internet, energy resources; much data on economic factors, exchange rates, etc.

Covers all types of official documents of the United Nations, starting in 1993, with older UN documents added daily. Also provides access to resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and the Trusteeship Council, starting with 1946. Does not include press releases, UN sales publications, or the UN Treaty Series.