Research Guides: Public Administration: International Policy & Data

Major International Data Sources

IMF Data
This resource includes: Prices of Commodities and Good for 268 countries. Also, it has International Financial Statistics (IFS), Balance of Payments Statistics (BOP), Direction of Trade Statistics (DOT) and Government Finance Statistics (GFS).
United Nations Data
World Bank Data
The datasets cover each country on Economy & Growth, Energy, Infrastructure and much much more.
OECD: Data
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development data on the top 60+ countries (economically).
International Labour Organization: Data & Statistics
International labor data and stats, including ILOSTAT.

Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX) This link opens in a new window
An open platform for sharing data across crises and organizations from the United Nation’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Aid (OCHA). Included are UN data, Facebook public datasets, Red Cross, and 280 other organizations in various format (e.g. CSV, GeoJSON).

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS), International
A project dedicated to collecting and distributing census data from around the world.
National Statistical Offices
From the UN - links to most countries' primary statistical offices.
USAID: Data Resources
Data and reports from USAID
Center for International Data
The center collects, enhances, creates, and disseminates international economic data. The site includes U.S Import/Export Data, U.S Tariff Data, World Import/Export Data, in many formats (e.g. SAS).
Harvard Dataverse
A repository of datasets covering social science and other major subject areas.

Europa World Plus This link opens in a new window
Economic, political, historical, and geographic profiles of territories, countries, and global regions.Includes contact information for political, business, media, and cultural agencies and officials. Coverage: 2006-present.

Reports in Business Source Complete
A few different research sources provide reports in this database. NOTE: In first search box replace "Brazil" with your country

Country Studies (Library of Congress) This link opens in a new window
Digitized books that provide descriptions and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, and political systems and institutions of 80+ countries. Originally sponsored by the U.S. Army and written by researchers affiliated with the LoC’s Federal Research Division. Coverage: 1986-2015.