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Best Cities for Business (Arthur Andersen/Fortune)
  • This content is no longer available at its original address. The link is to an archived version at the Internet Archive from Feb 2002. The site as archived in the Internet Archive does not necessarily function as it was originally intended
  • Ranks best cities for doing business by region (North America, Latin America, Asia, and Europe)
  • Numerous economic indicators not easily available elsewhere
Country Rankings Guide (American University)
  • Wonderfully complete guide to rankings of countries
  • Includes links for civil liberties, corruption, development, economics, the environment, governance, press freedom, and social factors
  • Annotations provide source information for many of the web sites
Data on the Net (UC-San Diego)
  • Searchable and browsable data base of approximately 800 numeric data sites, data archives, catalogs, and commercial vendor web sites
  • All entries are annotated and provide direct links to the web site
Finding Statistics Online (Berinstein)
  • This content is no longer available at its original address. The link is to the archive version at the Internet Archive from Jan 2008.
  • Guide to free and subscription based web and on-line (e.g. DIALOG, LEXIS) data sources
  • Segmented by detailed subject (e.g. box office receipts, Bulgaria--Public Opinion, Charitable Contributions, Turkey
  • To be used in conjunction with Paula Berinstein's book of the same title (HA 33.5 .B471), published in 1998
Gale Country and World Rankings Reporter
  • Ranks countries and regions on an extensive variety of demographic, education, economic, health, political, marketing, and production data
  • Countries are selected and vary with each table
  • Sources include books, articles, and government publications
GenderStats (World Bank)
  • National-level statistical data on poverty, education, health, labor force, and political participation broken down by gender
  • Approach data by country and then theme or via the country profiles
Global Urban Indicators Database (UN Center for Human Settlements)
  • Detailed socioeconomic indicators for 237 cities in 110 countries,, mostly in the Third World
  • Data includes poverty level and percent in poverty, family income distribution, per capital gross city product (under health), size of school classrooms, per capita murder rates, home ownership, land use
  • Data in pdf and text formats
Globastat
  • Rankings of countries of the world on statistical indicators found in the CIA World Factbook
  • Subjects include land area and elevation, population, life expectancy, fertility, mortality, and AIDS
  • Economics, poverty, income ratios, electricity use, GDP
  • Communications, internet use, IP providers, televisions
Governance Data Sets and Indicators (World Bank)
  • Extensive list of global and regional data sets with their corresponding web sites
  • Includes emerging market access, corruption, election process, environment, women's rights
  • Descriptive table appears in the UNDP's Sources for Democratic Governance Indicators (2004) and at Governance Indicators's: a User's Guide
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
 
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