Based at the University of Oxford, it uses statistics on everything from health and population growth to war, the environment, and energy to give insights into how living conditions are changing around the world.
GDELT is a data set containing more than 200-million geolocated events with global coverage for 1979 to the present. Kalev Leetaru, University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science. The data are based on a variety of international news sources coded; the data will be updated daily.
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. This version also includes estimates of net total social spending for 2009 for 30 OECD countries. SOCX provides a unique tool for monitoring trends in aggregate social expenditure and analysing changes in its composition. It covers 34 OECD countries for the period 1980-2009 and estimates for 2010-2012. The main social policy areas are as follows: Old age, Survivors, Incapacity-related benefits, Health, Family, Active labour market programmes, Unemployment, Housing, and Other social policy areas.
created and maintained by Paul Hensel of the Department of Political Science at Florida State University. This site includes links to on-line data resources on the most useful data sources on international conflict and cooperation, international economic, environmental, political, and social data and data on similar topics for the United States.
groups all OECD statistics around 25 topics. Frequently Requested Statistics. glossary of statistical terms. The Statistics Newsletter, The Statistics Brief, statistical news releases, links to external sources, the chart of the week, etc.
The Gapminder Graphs allow you to unveil the interactions between indicators in the OECD Factbook over time. select any two indicators for the axes in the graph, and the size of bubbles reflect the size of a third indicator of your choice. Play with time. Select countries and track and compare their performance.
The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) has launched a new internet-based data service for the global user community. It brings UN statistical databases within easy reach of users through a single entry point (http://data.un.org/) from which users can now search and download a variety of statistical resources of the UN System.
The service will ultimately consist of approximately 500 key tables sorted by subject theme. The tables will be updated regularly and be available in three formats: Excel, PDF, and HTML.
This interactive database allows users to explore public opinion trends in 55 countries on topics ranging from attitudes toward the U.S. to people's assessments of their own lives to views about globalization, democratization, extremism and other important issues. Data can be searched by question, by topic or by country - and results can be displayed in map, table or chart formats. The findings are from eight surveys conducted by the Pew Global Attitudes Project from 2002-2009 among a total of more than 200,000 respondents.
DataFirst is a Survey Data Archive and training facility at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. The Archive’s holdings include the datasets from all major South African surveys, as well as survey data from other African countries. Researchers can access the data and supporting documentation from the DataFirst Resource Centre. Researchers further afield can download data documentation and public access datasets via the DataFirst data catalogue. The website provides access to bibliographies of literature using the survey data. These bibliographies include links to the full-text articles where these are available.
KEDS the uses automated coding of English-language news reports to generate political event data focusing on the Middle East, Balkans, and West Africa. These data are used in statistical early warning models to predict political change.
Center for Global Development data sets: Cross-Country Data on AIDS Treatment and HIV Prevalence in 2006-07, Owen McCarthy and Mead Over. The Fate of Young Democracies. Net Aid Transfers data set (1960-2007), David Roodman. New Data on African Health Professionals Abroad, Michael Clemens. Anarchy of Numbers data set, David Roodman. Aid, Policies, and Growth data set, William Easterly, Ross Levine and David Roodman.
Governments around the globe are opening up their data vaults – allowing you to check out the numbers for yourself. This is the Guardian’s gateway to that information. Search for government data here from the UK (including London), USA, Australia and New Zealand – and look out for new countries and places as we add them.
The Latin American and Caribbean Macro Watch Database. data behind the macroeconomic analysis carried out by the Inter-American Development Bank Research Department. partner = CERES. database collects information from public sources in IDB's 26 borrowing member countries and adds to it a set of useful indicators that allows for better monitoring of macroeconomic conditions. The database spans the period 1990-2008, and contains information at annual, quarterly, monthly and sometimes daily frequencies, based on data availability. The complete dataset includes 1,146,581 registers, contained in 9,312 series. Key indicators for each of the 26 member countries can be accessed through country tables, which compare some key variables against their sub-regional counterparts.
The Complex Emergency Database (CE-DAT) is an international initiative that monitors and evaluates the health status of populations affected by complex emergencies. Nutrition, mortality, vaccintation, malnutrition