Data Sources: International

  • Afrobarometer Africa Public Opinion Research Home Page
    Data on Africans' opinions on democracy, political behavior, and social movements, from a multi-country survey.
  • All China Database
    Data on a huge number of economic indicators for China, including exports, GDP, and economic news. Website takes a while to load (Duke only).
  • Annual Review of Population Law
    Data on every country in the world relating to population policies, reproductive rights and health, women's status and rights, children and adolescents, HIV/AIDS and related topics, from 1974-present.
  • Armed Conflict Location and Events Dataset (ACLED)Conflict analysis and mapping tool, including data from 1997-present. Earlier years are being added.
  • Center for Global Policy
    Data on a variety of international relations factors, including foreign trade, democratization and state-building and transnational networks.
  • Center for International Development and Conflict Management
    Data on all international crises from the end of World War 1 to the present. Users must register to access the data.
  • Chinese Life Histories and Social Change
    Data from a stratified sample of the Chinese general population in 1996.
  • Conflict Analysis Resource Center (CERAC)
    Cross-country conflict data sets.
  • Correlates of War data
    Data on international relations, particularly armed conflicts. To download data, click on "Available datasets" on the left of the screen.
  • Council of European Social Science Data Archives
    Major collection of European socioeconomic data.
  • Danish Data Archives
    Data from Denmark on a wide variety of surveys. Most of the search functions are not available in English; however, if you contact the site (Click on "finding data" at the top left), they will assist you with finding the information you need.
  • Data on Armed Conflict
    Dataset on armed conflicts from Uppsala University.
  • DataFinder - Population Reference Bureau
    Data on 133 population, health, and environment variables for more than 220 countries, 28 world regions and sub-regions, and the world as a whole.
  • East Asia Barometer
    Data from the Asian Barometer Survey, which surveyed citizens of several Eastern Asian countries on attitudes towards politics, power, reform, and democracy in Asia. Users must obtain permission to use raw survey data; to do this, click on "Data Release" on the left hand side of the page and follow the instructions. Users can also use the site's on-line analysis tool (under "survey results" on the left hand side of the page) to analyze data from the survey.
  • Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS)
    The United Kingdom's official national data service.
  • EIU Country Data
    Economics data on over 190 countries (Duke only).
  • Election Results Archive
    Access to data on election results from around the world. Data is available through an online interactive search engine - click on "how to access" to access the various different search options.
  • EU NEW GOVERNANCE - Project Documents
    Resources from the EU's commission on the study of the transformation of governance in the EU. To access data, click on "publications" on the left side of the screen, and on "download area" from the drop down links.
  • Eurobarometer
    Data from the Eurobarometer survey of European residents. Click on the various links on the left hand side of the page to access parts of the survey.
  • EUROPA - Eurostat
    Data on a variety of economic and social indicators for European Countries.
  • Freedom of the Press
    A geographic and data display of the varying levels of freedom of the press in most countries.
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    • Gapminder World
      Comparative tool for international data.
    • Global Real Estate Project
      An online database of a variety of information (including information on real estate and construction) about all countries. Select a country from the drop down menu to begin.
    • Human Rights Data Set
      Data on 13 internationally recognized human rights for 162 countries, annually from 1981-2003. To access, click on "Projects" on left side of the screen, and on "CIRI Human Rights Data Set" in the middle of the screen.
    • IEA Energy Statistics Homepage
      Access to data on access to a variety of energy sources for all OECD countries and many non-OECD countries.
    • IMF: Data and Statistics
      Data from the International Monetary Fund on a variety of subjects, including lending, exchange rates, and other economic indicators.
    • Institutions and Elections Project
      Data on data on political institutions and practices and political elections for all countries in the international system between 1972 and 2005. To access, click on "Institutions and Elections Project Database" on the left side of the screen.
    • International Budget Project
      A variety of data on how open and responsive governments are to demands by their constituents.
    • International IDEA | IDEA
      International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance is an intergovernmental organization which supports sustainable democracy worldwide.
    • International Statistical Agencies
      Links and access to international statistical agencies.
    • The International Stratification and Mobility File
      The ISMF provides international data on social stratification, parent's social statuses, and social mobility. Site provides access to a variety of sources, as well as tools for harmonizing different data sources. Click on "Catalogue of Data" for access to varying data sources.
    • Kansas Event Data System (KEDS)
      Access to the KEDS system, which converts english-language news and reports into event data, which is used to predict political change in the Middle East, Balkans, and West Africa. Click on "Data" on the top of the page to access the datasets produces by the KEDS project.
    • LABORSTA Internet
      Data from the International Labour Organization Bureau of Statistics. Data on a variety of subjects, on most countries.
    • Latin American Public Opinion Project
      A project of Americabarometer, LAPOP provides access to results from multi-country surveys of how Latin Americans view democratic values and behaviors.
    • League of Nations, Northwestern University Library
      Access to digital renderings on all documents associated with the League of Nations.
    • Lijphart Elections Archive
      The Lijphart Elections Archive is a static research collection of district level election results for approximately 350 national legislative elections in 26 countries.
    • Militarized Interstate Disputes
      Data on all conflicts from 1816 to 1992 in which one or more states threaten or use force against one or more other states
    • Minorities At Risk Dataset
      The Minorities At Risk program provides access to data that monitors and analyzes the status and conflicts of politically-active communal groups in all countries with a current population of at least 500,000.
    • National Statistics Online
      Free access to data about UK government, economy and devolved agencies.
    • NationMaster - World Statistics, Country Comparisons
      A compilation site, with data from a variety of sources on socio-economic indicators, demographics, finances, or more. Data can be displayed in a variety of geographic outputs.
    • OFFSTATS: Country Statistics
      Location of data on most countries in the world. Database is searchable by country, region, and subject.
    • Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
      Data from the OECD on development, economics, and politics in the international arena.
    • Political Database of the Americas
      Comprehensive database of political information concerning all 35 independent nations of the Western Hemisphere.
    • Rulers of the World
      A database of all the heads of state and heads of government of all countries and territories, going back to about 1700 in most cases.
    • Social Stratification in Eastern Europe
      Data on Social Stratification in Eastern Europe after 1989 from the General Social Survey.
    • Tax Rates Around the World
      A global guide covering income tax, other taxes, economy overview and economic indicators.
    • The Fund for Peace - Failed States Index
      Data ranks 177 countries based on their social, economic, and political pressures. Archival data is available.
    • UK Data Archive
      Archival collection of national survey data from the University of Essex.
    • UK National Archives
      NDAD preserves and provides online access to archived digital data and documents from UK central government departments.
    • UNESCO Institute for Statistics
      Global and internationally comparable statistics on education, science, technology, culture and communication.
    • United Nations Statistics Division
      Data and statistical reports from the United Nations, on a variety of factors.
    • UNstats | Millennium Indicators
      Data for the Millennium Development Goals, including socio-economic indicators, global standings, and more.
    • USDA World Market Reports
      Data on production and trades for most agricultural products.
    • Violations of Human Rights dataset
      The Poe and Tate dataset, which covers all violations of human rights to personal integrity in the 1980s.
    • WarViews
      Source for visualizing and mapping conflict data.
    • WHO | A guide to statistical information at WHO
      Reports and statistics from the World Health Organization.
    • The World Bank
      The World Bank's publication and reference site provides access to the research conducted by or for the World Bank.
    • The World Bank's Living Standards Measurement Study Household Surveys
      Access to data from the Living Standards Measurement Study, a longitudinal study of international living standards by the World Bank.
    • World Bank Indicators
      Data on a variety of indicators used by the World Bank. Users can either search the database, or browse by country or region.
    • World Tables
      Provides detailed current and archival data as published by the World Bank.
    • World Values Survey
      Data on global cultural values.

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