Full profiles provide an instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries and territories, and background on key institutions. They also include audio and video clips from BBC archives.
"The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities."
From the U.S. Department of Commerce, the International Trade Administration's Research Center has data on industries, countries, and more on a variety of trade topics.
The mission of the OECD is "to promote policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world." Find statistics, reports and other policy information focused on the 34 member countries, but with some information about other countries as well.
Find demographic data, statistics by industry, statistics on business costs, statistics by occupation, and labor statistics by geography for the United States.
This is an internet based data service for the global user community. It brings UN statistical databases within easy reach of users through a single entry point. Users can now search and download a variety of statistical resources of the UN system.
The Industrial Commodity Statistics Yearbook is a series of annual compilations of statistics on world industry designed to meet both the general demand for information of this kind and the special requirements of the United Nations and related international bodies. As of January 2019, the latest edition is the Industrial Commodity Statistics Yearbook 2016, fully available for download from the webpage.
Links to the World Bank's information on each country of the World. From each countries page is a link to data the World Bank collects on that country.
