Research Guides: Essential Resources for international affairs, political science, history and statistics/data with EU, CE/EE and Eurasia focus: General statistical resources

Statistics and economics databases at Gelman library

Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) This link opens in a new window
Provides political, economic, and business information on countries. Generally, the best way to use the database is to select country report under My Reports and Services and then select the country from the list that is then displayed.
Global Economic Monitor (GEM) This link opens in a new window
Global Economic Monitor (GEM) provides daily and monthly commentary on global economic conditions along with direct access to high frequency data that is refreshed daily. It provides analysis of current economic trends, economic, financial and commodity data indicators, an extensive database including growth and commodity forecasts and access to the iSimulate modeling platform.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Formerly LexisNexis Academic. Access to major newspapers from around the world, as well as: industry and market news; company financial information; general medical topics; accounting, auditing, and tax information; legal news, law reviews, and case law; and the U.S. and state codes. Please use Google Chrome or IE browsers with this database.
Russia/NIS Statistics This link opens in a new window
Covers Russian and English publications, reports and data sets from the State Committee of the Russian Federation on Statistics and the Interstate Statistical Committee of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Population Index This link opens in a new window
Online version of the Population Index periodical. Covers international research on demographic topics.
Banking Information Source This link opens in a new window
Covers essential banking industry publications, providing information about the financial services industry, banking, and industry trends.
World Development Indicators (WDI) This link opens in a new window
World Development Indicators (WDI) is the primary World Bank database for development data from officially-recognized international sources. Global Development Finance (GDF) provides external debt and financial flows statistics for countries that report public and publicly-guaranteed debt under the World Bank's Debtor Reporting System (DRS).

EU Statistics and Data

EU Open Data Portal
European studies, international affairs, economics, social sciences
Economic Commission for Europe
Statistical data on member countries on a variety of issues
Council of Europe
Information on Human Rights, refugees, humanitarian issues
CESSDA
Umbrella organization for national data archives of European countries.
TransMonEE
Monitors situation of children and women in Europe and Central Asia; Population, fertility, mortality, health, education, child protection, juvenile just and crime, social protection, child well-being, economy
OECD Education Statistics Portal/OECD Education Statistics
OECD Education statistics database includes the UNESCO/OECD/EUROSTAT (UOE) database on education covering the outputs of educational institutions, the policy levers that shape educational outputs, the human and financial resources invested in education, structural characteristics of education systems, and the economic and social outcomes of education, learning and training throughout life, including on employment and unemployment
Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg
Income and wealth data designed to allow country comparisons.
NationMaster
Central data source amalgamating information from several sources
Tacitus.nu
Historical population atlas of Europe
Economic Commission for Europe
Statistical data on member countries on a variety of issues
Eurostat
Statistics about the EU and member countries.

UN Statistics and Data

UN Stats
Collection of statistical data about UN member states
ITU - Information and Communications Technology Statistics, UN
Statistics and indicators on information, communications and telecommunications
UN Data
Gateway to the UN's 32 statistical databases
UNICEF Statistics and Monitoring
Economic and social statistics on the countries and territories of the world, with particular reference to children’s well-being
Human Development Data, UN
Income inequality, gender, poverty, population, health, education, national income, work and employment, human security, human and capital mobility, quality of human development, life-course of gender gaps, women's empowerment, environmental and socio-economic sustainability.
Migration Policy Institute, UN
Provides accessible and timely data, information, and analysis on immigration and integration issues that cover the major issues on which policymakers and the general public need information
UN Refugee Agency
FAOStat
UN's Food and Agriculture Organization statistics.
UNCTADstat
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

International public opinion Gelman based databases

Gallup Analytics This link opens in a new window
Contains two sets of polling information: the Gallup Poll Social Series, public opinion surveys on social, economic, and political topics accessible to all users, and the U.S. Tracker and World Poll providing, respectively, U.S. public opinion datasets at the country, state and U.S. city respondent levels, and international public opinion datasets.
iPoll (Roper Center) This link opens in a new window
Archive of US nationwide public opinion data including downloadable datasets. Users must create an account and log in to download raw data.
Polling the Nations This link opens in a new window
Data from public opinion polls and surveys conducted in the US and abroad. Simultaneous Users: 4
Roper Center Public Opinion Archives (with iPOLL) This link opens in a new window
Provided by the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell University, Roper iPoll is the largest collection of public opinion poll data with results from 1935 to the present. Roper iPoll contains nearly 800,000 questions and over 23,000 datasets from both U.S. and international polling firms. Surveys cover any number of topics including, social issues, politics, pop culture, international affairs, science, the environment, and much more. When available, results charts, demographic crosstabs and full datasets are provided for immediate download.