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Government Resources: International

This guide will assist you in locating government document tools to assist in your research needs.

Select Gateways and Search Engines

Trade & Procurement Leads

Maps

Atlas of Our Changing Environment United Nations Environment Programme
University of Texas at AustinPerry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
TradeStats Express Foreign Trade Division, U.S. Census

State Department Press Briefings

Government & International Organizations

Europa: Gateway to the European Union European Union
Web Sites and E-mail Addresses of Embassies (in the United States) U. S. Dept. of State
Government of Canada
Government of Mexico
Governments on the WWW Gunnar Anzinger
IMF: International Monetary Fund
International Organizations and Related InformationUniversity of Michigan
International Documents Collection Northwestern University
Library of Congress
United Nations
U. S. Department of State
World Bank

International Statistics

African Development Bank Group
Datafinder Population Reference Bureau
Data Centre UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Demographic and Health Surveys U. S. Agency for International Development
Development Data and Statistics World Bank
East Asia and the Pacific World Bank
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, (ECLAC), UN
Economics and Statistics Asian Development Bank
Eurostat European Union
FAOSTAT Food and Agriculture Organization, UN
International Data Base U. S. Bureau of the Census
IES - International Economic Statistics Database Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
LABORSTA Internet International Labour Office
National Institute of Statistics, Geography, and Informatics, Government of Mexico
Office of National Statistics Office of National Statistics, United Kingdom
OECD: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
OFFSTATS: Official Statistics University of Auckland, New Zealand
Statistical Agencies (International) U. S. Bureau of the Census
Statistics Canada
UNECE: United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
United Nations InfoNation
United Nations Statistics Division

International Trade

Information about Countries

International Resources

Zanran
Zanran helps you to find ‘semi-structured’ data on the web. This is the numerical data that people have presented as graphs and tables and charts.
OFFStats
OFFSTATS database provides access to free statistics from official sources on the web. Some specialized databases are only available to the University of Auckland staff and students. Web links are arranged by country, region or subject. The database can be searched by a single category, or a combination of categories. All of the content of the database is held in the public domain and is available through the Internet.
World Development Indicators
World Development Indicators (WDI) is the World Bank’s premier compilation of cross-country comparable data on development.
OECD.Stat
OECD.Stat includes data and metadata for OECD countries and selected non-member economies.
NationMaster
This site provides comparative national statistics on a variety of topics. In many cases, statistics can also be displayed as bar graphs, charts, or maps.

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With permission from: Anita Etheridge, Tennessee State University