Country Studies Research Guide

European Union web portal to charts and data on EU member countries. Excellent and free source to EU information. Create charts and tables by choosing data points.

Easy to use for annual data back to 1960. Start by choosing a country, and then the data series. To search, follow the boxes from left to right. Includes population, education, environmental, and economic indicators.

Link takes you right to CPI tables but scroll up and down the page for details about the CPI, an inflation calculator, FAQs and much more.

Housing starts, Manufacturing & Trade inventories & sales, advance monthly sales for retail & food services, monthly wholesale trade, manufacturers' shipments, international trade, construction spending, and more.

Global statistics with links to many related agencies.

Easiest source for global trade data: Pick a commodity, then choose the trade partner countries. Or pick a country to see trade data. Data based on UN Comtrade and local statistical sources. Great resource for commodity trade data at the 2- and 4-digit level.

Provides value of merchandise imports and exports for countries and their trading partners back to 1948.

- Statistics Database: Interactive access to the most up-to-date WTO trade statistics
- International Trade Statistics: Annual publication

UN Conference on Trade & Development statistics on international trade, economic trends, FDI, and more. Statistics include data by country groupings such as developmental status, monetary unions, trade agreements, etc. as well as individual country profiles.

Provides US national and state-level data. At the national level, provides import, export, and trade balance data. At the state level, export data ohly. Source is US International Trade Administration.

U.S. import & export statistics and tariff information. Need to create a free account.

UN Conference on Trade & Development statistics on international trade, economic trends, FDI, and more. Statistics here are represented by country groupings such as developmental status, monetary unions, trade agreements, etc. Drill down to the country level.

Statistics on flows, stocks, greenfield projects, and M&A by destination, industry sector, and investor/recipient country. Country Fact Sheets include FDI data plus report on the legal framework within each country/economy, including legislation relating to bilateral treaties that govern national investment policy.

Data on 220 countries from 2001 onward.

Development, economic, education, labor, industrial, financial, population, and many more statistics on about 50 countries.

World population trends, prospects, current population with links to other sites.

Research organization that seeks to "inform people around the world about population, health, and the environment."

Provides country overviews, population, and country rankings.

City populations with country maps.