Global
- CountryData.com (Harvard Login)Political, financial and economic risk data with over 75 variables for 140 countries. ICRG risk ratings are also included.
- Cross-National Time-Series Data Archive (Harvard Login)Time series data for a wide range of demographic, economic, and political variables for most countries, from the 19th century to the present.
Earlier editions are available in Dataverse (Harvard Login). - Economist Intelligence Unit (Harvard Login)Provides country profiles and data, including information on politics, economy, risk, regulation, and business environment of a country.
Note: Material to which Harvard does not have access is marked with a small diamond icon in browse or search results. - EMIS Intelligence (Harvard Login)Economic and business news for emerging markets in Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East-North Africa.
- Global Market Information Database (Harvard Login)Market research reports about various consumer products and industries worldwide. Includes historical data as well as forecasts.
- IMF eLibrary (Harvard Login)Direct access to the IMF’s periodicals, books, working papers and studies, and data and statistical tools
- International Historical Statistics (Harvard Login)Collates key economic and social indicators for most countries of the world from the Industrial Revolution of the mid-eighteenth century onward.
- Mintel Reports (Harvard Login)Collection of market analysis, consumer research data, and industry reports covering US and international markets. You will be required to accept the terms of use before you can search.
- OECD iLibrary (Harvard Login)Publications include OECD country studies, forecasting publications, reports, periodicals, and socio-economic databases.
- Statista (Harvard Login)Integrates over 60,000 diverse topics of data and facts from over 10,000 sources onto a single platform. Sources of information include market researchers, trade publications, scientific journals, and government databases.
- UN CountryDataData collected at the country level along with comparisons between national and international estimates of development indicators.
- UN Country ProfilesUN data along with links to each country's statistical office.
- Varieties of Democracy Project (V-Dem)Vast database of more than 400 variables on aspects of (democratic) governance in countries all over the world, dating back to 1789.
- World Bank eLibrary (Harvard Login)Full-text access to the complete backlist of all books, working papers, and journal articles published by the World Bank since the 1990s.
- World Governance IndicatorsFrom the World Bank, an annually updated dataset on the quality of governance in most countries. The site offers web-based data visualizations as well as downloads.
- World Values SurveyData and online analysis tracking changing values across countries since 1981.
Individual Countries & Regions
- African Development Bank (AfDB) Group StatisticsStatistical data produced by AfDB researchers for informing policy formulation, implementation, and evaluation as well as monitoring progress towards achieving Millennium Development Goals and Poverty Reduction Strategies.
- China Data Online (Harvard Login)Data from the National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China in English.
- EurostatStatistics from and about the EU member states cover the economy, population, industry, trade, services, agriculture, environment, energy, science and technology.
- Indiastat (Harvard Login)Statistics on India at the national, sectoral, and state level. Data in this resource is currently view only.
- States of India (Harvard Login)Compilation of state-level statistics.
- UDB Statistics (Harvard Login)Statistical publications from Russia and other post-Soviet countries, in some cases going back to 1995.
- National Statistical OfficesLinks to the websites of the national statistical offices of UN member countries, on the website of the UN Statistics Division.