Global Statistics - ECO 3303 - Sustainable Development

Comparative Country Statistics

World Bank Data Sources

World Bank Open Data
World Development Indicators, Country Profiles and more.
World Development Indicators
Choose Onlne Tables and use the down arrows to download into Excel for sorting for country comparison and analysis.
World Bank: World DataBank
Analysis and visualisation tool that contains collections of time series data on a variety of topics.
Scroll down to see specific databases: World Development Indicators, Education, etc.
Gender Inequality Index
With references to the Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM)
World Bank Doing Business series
Ranks and compares countries along criteria that promote business.

Data from Other International Organizations

UN Data
Portal for all UN data from FAO to UNESCO to WHO.
Human Development Index - UN
Eurostat
OECD StatExtracts
Statistical indicators for both OECD Countries and many nonmembers. Download country tables or comparative tables.
OECD Data
Highlights new data with links to statistical tools, publications, glossary and more.

Specialty Data

International Labor Comparisons - US BLS
Comparative tables through 2011. Program will no longer be updated.

World Bank Interactive Maps
The Global Research of the World Bank.
International Trade Centre Market Analysis Tools
WTO International Trade & Market Access Data
Maps worldwide imports and exports for broad product and service types.
WTO Trade and Tariff Indicator maps
Urban Observatory
Compare 100 cities around the world mapped by population, transportation, industry, environment and other areas.