LibGuides: International and Area Studies: International Statistics

Data Services

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International Statistics

Also see the "Statistics, Datasets, and Polls" page.

ACLED (Armed Conflict Location and Events Dataset)
"ACLED collects real-time data on the locations, dates, actors, fatalities, and types of all reported political violence and protest events around the world."
African Statistical Yearbook
"The Yearbook series is a result of joint efforts by major African regional organizations to set up a joint data collection mechanism of socioeconomic data on African countries as well as the development of a common harmonized database."
AfroBarometer
An African-led series of national public attitude surveys on democracy and governance in Africa.
CIRI Human Rights Dataset
"... standards-based quantitative information on government respect for 15 internationally recognized human rights for 202 countries, annually from 1981-2011."
Correlates of War
"Seeks to facilitate the collection, dissemination, and use of accurate and reliable quantitative data in international relations."
Data Center (Population Reference Bureau)
Click on Data Center on the PRB homepage (or use the menu on a hand held device) to see links to international and U.S. data indicators, as well as the World Population Data Sheets.
Demographic Yearbook
The United Nations Statistics Division collects, compiles and disseminates official demographic and social statistics on a wide range of topics.
Eurobarometer
The polling instrument used by the European Commission, the European Parliament and other EU institutions agencies to monitor regularly the state of public opinion in Europe on issues related to the European Union as well as attitudes on subjects of political or social nature.
EuroStat
Eurostat is the statistical office of the European Union. Its mission is to provide high quality statistics for Europe. By harmonising statistics from the European statistical system (ESS) to a single methodology, the statistics are made comparable.
FAOSTAT
"Free access to food and agriculture data for over 245 countries and territories and covers all FAO regional groupings
from 1961 to the most recent year available"
Freedom in the World
"The Freedom in the World report is composed of numerical ratings and supporting descriptive texts for 195 countries and 15 territories. External analysts assess 210 countries and territories..."
Global Terrorism Database
"The GTD is an open-source database, which provides information on domestic and international terrorist attacks around the world since 1970, and now includes more than 200,000 events."
Integrated Network for Societal Conflict Research (INSCR)
"The Integrated Network for Societal Conflict Research (INSCR) was established to coordinate and integrate information resources produced and used by the Center for Systemic Peace"
International Data (Columbia U.)
A guide to statistical sources from Columbia University Libraries.
Issue Correlates of War (ICOW) Project
"A research project that is collecting systematic data on contentious issues in world politics."
Minorities at Risk (MAR) Project
"A university-based research project that monitors and analyzes the status and conflicts of politically-active communal groups in all countries with a current population of at least 500,000."
NationMaster
A central data source compiled from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Includes agricultural, development, economic, educational, energy, environmental, financial, health, public sector, science and technology data.
Political Instability Task Force Worldwide Atrocities Dataset
"A global dataset that describes, in quantitative terms, the deliberate killing of non-combatant civilians in the context of a wider political conflict." --MSU guide
Quality of Governments Data
"The compilation datasets are drawn from more than one hundred different sources that deal with topics related to the concepts of Quality of Government."

Roper iPoll
Coverage: 1935-present
The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research provides public opinion data from polls conducted by major U.S. and international polling organizations. Roper iPoll includes broad topical coverage of opinions and behavior on social issues, politics, pop culture, international affairs, the environment, science, and more. Questions, charts, demographic crosstabs, and datasets are all available.
For information about appropriate and restricted use of iPoll data, please see The Roper Center's terms and conditions.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorials.
Statista
Statista is a data portal offering ready-made statistics, reports, and survey findings from more than 40,000 reputable sources. Coverage includes the media, markets, industries, politics, population, opinions, lifestyles, and more. Data is downloadable in PDF, Excel, and PowerPoint.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
"Provides 5 datasets that center on multilateral peace operations; military expenditures; arms transfers and arms embargoes; and national reports on arms exports."--MSU guide
Transparency International
180 countries. Corruption Perception Index and more.
UIS.Stat
The official statistical agency of UNESCO. The UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) is the official and trusted source of internationally-comparable data on education, science, culture and communication.
UK Data Service
The UK Data Service collection includes major UK government-sponsored surveys, cross-national surveys, longitudinal studies, UK census data, international aggregate, business data, and qualitative data.
UN Data
Includes numerous databases or tables collectively known as "datamarts" contain over 60 million data points and cover a wide range of statistical themes including agriculture, crime, communication, development assistance, education, energy, environment, finance, gender, health, labour market, manufacturing, national accounts, population and migration, science and technology, tourism, transport and trade.
University of Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) Datasets Downloads
"Features 14 datasets that focus on armed conflict; conflict termination; non-state conflict; one-sided conflict; battle-related deaths; managing intra-state conflict and/or low-intensity conflict, and more." --MSU guide
World Values Survey
The World Values Survey is a global network of social scientists studying changing values and their impact on social and political life, led by an international team of scholars, with the WVS association and secretariat headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.

World Bank Open Data Portal
This database provides access to over 2,000 World Development Indicators (WDI) from the World Bank data sets covering over 200 countries.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.

Environmental Data

Environment Statistics (U.N.)
"UNSD Environmental Indicators disseminate global environment statistics on ten indicator themes compiled from a wide range of data sources. The themes and indicator tables were selected based on the current demands for international environmental statistics and the availability of internationally comparable data. Indicator tables, charts and maps with relatively good quality and coverage across countries, as well as links to other international sources, are provided under each theme."
IPCC DDC
"A new data catalogue for the IPCC DDC is in development. Use the search bar to explore the limited number of datasets made available in the data catalogue at this stage, including the data from the Summary for Policymakers of the Working Group I Contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report."
UN-Habitat
Search their knowledge repository for research on the latest findings on sustainable urbanization.
Urban Environment and Social Inclusion Index (UESI)
"...a first-of-its-kind tool that leverages high-resolution, large-scale data to reveal how cities perform at the intersection of environment and social equity. "
World Health Organization Data Collections
The World Health Organization manages and maintains a wide range of data collections related to global health and well-being as mandated by our Member States.

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