Databases

The EIU Country Reports Archive contains all country reports published by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) from 1996 through June 2011. The country reports feature information on economic and political developments and on foreign trade, as well as overviews of the most important economic indicators.

GENESIS-Online is a statistical information system jointly developed by the Germany's federal and state statistical bureaus. Permitting metadata-aided research, it gives access to the wide range of official statistics relating to areas, population, gainful employment, and elections; education, social transfers and social services, health, and law; housing and the environment; economic sectors; foreign trade, business, and crafts; prices, wages and salaries, income, and consumption; public finances; and resource accounting. All individually tailored tables in the database are available free of charge. Extensive tables with several million values can be stored and updated in a personal user account after registration. A free API (web service interface) is available for further use of the machine-readable data.

Data on social, behavioral, humanistic, and natural sciences including history, economics, government, finance, sociology, demography, education, law, natural resources, climate, religion, international migration, and trade - quantitative facts of American History;a compendium of statistics from over 1000 sources;over 37,000 data series.

Digitalized versions of the 1979-1999 editions of the Aktienführer, published by Saling and later by Hoppenstedt. The Aktienführer features annual corporate profiles of companies listed at the German stock exchange, including key figures such as data on the company's headquarters, the area of activity, the number of employees, their shares, shareholders, data from balance sheets and profit and loss accounts, etc.

The International Monetary Fund's (IMF) eLibrary simplifies analysis and research with direct access to the IMF?s periodicals, books, working papers and studies, and data and statistical tools. You will find information and perspective on macroeconomics, globalization, development, trade and aid, technical assistance, demographics, emerging markets, policy advice, poverty reduction, and so much more. If you would like to build your own queries with IMF data - just register.

The OECD iLibrary includes all OECD books published since 1998. That means, a total of 8.330 books in PDF format with an additional 300 books annually. Over 20 OECD magazine series in PDF format, dated from 1961. All new releases will be included in the collection. Direct access to 23 OECD statistical databases. The IEA databases are not included.

The OECD Social Expenditure Database (SOCX) has been developed in order to serve a growing need for indicators of social policy. It includes reliable and internationally comparable statistics on public and mandatory and voluntary private social expenditure at programme level. SOCX provides a unique tool for monitoring trends in aggregate social expenditure and analysing changes in its composition. The main social policy areas are as follows: old age, survivors, incapacity-related benefits, health, family, active labor market programmes, unemployment, housing, and other social policy areas.

Die "Regionaldatenbank Deutschland" ist eine Datenbank, die tief gegliederte Ergebnisse der amtlichen Statistik von Stadt- und Landkreisen, Ländern und Bund enthält. Sie wird kontinuierlich ausgebaut. Der Tabellenabruf erfolgt unentgeltlich und kann variabel auf den individuellen Bedarf angepasst werden. Die Abspeicherung der Ergebnisse ist in verschiedenen Formaten möglich. Zusätzliche Nutzungsmöglichkeiten stehen registrierten Nutzern kostenfrei zur Verfügung: Abruf großer Tabellen (im Batchbetrieb); Speicherung häufig genutzter und individuell angepasster Tabellenabrufstrukturen in einem eigenen Verzeichnis ('Meine Tabellen')

Statista is a port that clusters statistical data from various institutes and sources. It offers statistics on more than 60,000 topics from over 18,000 sources across 20 categories of economic activity ranging from farming to administration and social affairs. The key content of this site consists of data that is relevant to decision-making yet both difficult to ferret out and complicated to analyze and interpret. They are drawn mostly from studies and results of current market research. The source, date of publication, number of persons surveyed, and other available metadata on each statistic are published, so the figures can be checked on Statista. Analyses and interpretations of data sets are based on scientific criteria. Note: The language selection not only changes the language, but also changes the content. In the selection "German", the focus is on Germany, Austria and Switzerland, with the selection "English" the focus is on USA, China, UK, Europe. The selection "French" and "Spanish" refers to the respective country.

The database comprises the 175 development indicators from the printed Atlas of Global Development. One can select the facts either by using the search function or by browsing topics. The data are diagrammed and presented as comparisons between countries. Users must register to export the data, but there is no charge.

The World Development Indicators (WDI) provides a comprehensive selection of economic, social and environmental indicators, drawing on data from the World Bank and more than 30 partner agencies. The database covers more than 900 indicators for 210 economies with data back to 1960. Since May 2010 the access to the databases World Development Indicators (WDI), Global Development Finance (GDF) and Africa Development Indicators (ADI) will be available free of charge.

This site gives access to material from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency about all counties in the world. The information is primarily political, economic, and geographic in nature.