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Human Development Report

Web version summarizes regional and country statistics on economic, social, and educational development
Each annual report focuses on an individual topic
- 1995 issue addressed gender equality
- 1997 issue carried poverty statistics by country with additional data on life expectancy, literacy, and per capita gross domestic product

Humanitarian Practice Network

Links to international governmental and non-governmental agencies providing humanitarian relief and disaster assistance (Red Pages)
Also includes newsletter of relief efforts

Illustrated Book of World Rankings

Immigration Data (Dept of Homeland Security)

Summary of immigration data to the U.S. by country and immigrant characteristics
Also includes the Statistical Yearbook of Immigration

Independent Sector

Indicators on Women and Men (UN)

Country data on women's education, employment, mortality, AIDS, and marital status

Info Nation (UN)

Current statistics on 185 countries
Thirty-seven variables include: population, life expectancy, fertility, school enrollment, illiteracy, homicides, motor vehicles, GDP and labor force
Carbon dioxide emissions, threatened species, and energy consumption are among the environmental data
Separate section on Twenty-One Cities of the World focuses on population and environment

Institute for Innovation in Social Policy

The Index of Social Health measures U.S. socio-economic and health statistics, poverty, suicide, health insurance coverage, over time
A separate arts and culture index provides data on adult and child participation in reading, theater, and related arts

Inter-University Consortium for Political & Social Research

Catalog and index to ICPSR's archival holdings of demographic, economic, health, and political machine readable data tapes
Data available for ftp for consortium members
Free web access to federal crime and aging data
Links to U.S., international, and foreign data archives

InterAction

Web site for 150 of the world's relief, development and refugee assistance agencies
Links to information on refugees and disaster relief
News items, such as the status of foreign aid bills, Kurdish refugees
Description of the American Council for Voluntary Action's humanitarian programs