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MSU Center for Intl Business Education and Research

Impressive guide to international business, economics and marketing
Annotated links to regional and country information, laws, trade leads, trade shows, journals, and government sources
International business programs at Michigan State University

NationMaster

Create graphs, maps, and country rankings for a very broad range of social, economic and cultural statistics
Subjects include individual crimes, currency, sports, religion, transportation, electoral system, budget, trade balance, health, education, economics, marriage rate
Countries may be ranked by region as well as worldwide from the top 100 to the bottom 5
Sample: Papua-New Guinea has one of the lowest crime rates in the world while Saudi Arabia has the largest car theft rate in the Middle East

Nations Online

Worldwide population characteristics, including race, religion, access to sanitation
Maps and detailed information about individual countries including links to government agencies, major newspapers, sports, city populations, time zones, flags
Currency converters and international airport codes

Penn World Tables (UPenn)

Time series data, 1950 to 1992, for 152 countries on 29 subjects, most related to Gross Domestic Product
Label codes must be used for multiple countries or subjects
Names rather than labels can be used under "Retrieve a Single PWT Series by Label"
Another set on the web through the University of Toronto

Policy Research Working Papers

Policy Research Working Papers provides abstracts and full text in 10 subject areas, including macroeconomics and poverty

Population and Housing Censuses, 1995-2004

Population Reference Bureau

Nonprofit educational organization
Excerpts from its publications and bulletins include data on U.S. and foreign population topics
Articles and reports on gender, migration, labor, environment, children, income and poverty
Data Finder allows user to compare 95 demographic variables (fertility, abortion policy, GNP, labor force) for 220 countries

Poverty Net Data (World Bank)

Numerous studies and reports on poverty
Links to wealth as measured by the Gini coefficient
Section on Poverty and Health provides numerous data linking the two
World Bank Social Indicators provides 32 poverty measures downloadable in Excel format for individual countries

Progress of Nations, 1996

Emphasis on the condition of women
Country statistics on children include age, mortality rate, nutrition, immunization, and education
Maternal mortality rates and female mutilation cases by country

Progress of Nations, 1997