"ACLED collects real-time data on the locations, dates, actors, fatalities, and types of all reported political violence and protest events around the world."

"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."

An African-led series of national public attitude surveys on democracy and governance in Africa.

"... standards-based quantitative information on government respect for 15 internationally recognized human rights for 202 countries, annually from 1981-2011."

"Seeks to facilitate the collection, dissemination, and use of accurate and reliable quantitative data in international relations."

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.

The United Nations Statistics Division collects, compiles and disseminates official demographic and social statistics on a wide range of topics.

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 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.

"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"

"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..."

"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."

"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"

A guide to statistical sources from Columbia University Libraries.

"A research project that is collecting systematic data on contentious issues in world politics."

"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."

A central data source compiled from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD.

Includes agricultural, development, economic, educational, energy, environmental, financial, health, public sector, science and technology data.

"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

"The compilation datasets are drawn from more than one hundred different sources that deal with topics related to the concepts of Quality of Government."

Public opinion data from polls conducted by major U.S. and international polling organizations, including broad topical coverage of opinions and behavior on social issues, politics, pop culture, international affairs, the environment, science, and more. NOTE: For information about appropriate and restricted use of iPoll data, please see The Roper Center's terms and conditions.

"Provides 5 datasets that center on multilateral peace operations; military expenditures; arms transfers and arms embargoes; and national reports on arms exports."--MSU guide

180 countries. Corruption Perception Index and more.

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.

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.

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.

"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

This database provides access to over 2,000 World Development Indicators (WDI) from the World Bank data sets covering over 200 countries.

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.

"Reports aggregate and individual governance indicators for over 200 countries and territories over the period 1996–2020."

"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."

EJScreen is an environmental justice mapping and screening tool that provides EPA with a nationally consistent dataset and approach for combining environmental and demographic indicators. EJScreen users choose a geographic area; the tool then provides demographic and environmental information for that area. All of the EJScreen indicators are publicly-available data.

"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."

Search their knowledge repository for research on the latest findings on sustainable urbanization.

"...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. "

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.