Links to data available from the websites of major International Organisations such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the United Nations, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the World Bank:
- Commonwealth of Independent States Statistical Committee (CIS)
- Eurostat – the European Union Statistical gateway with many freely available data.
- Eurydice – the information network on education in Europe provides comparable information on education systems and policies throughout Europe.
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- FAOSTAT– the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s food, forestry, fisheries and agricultural statistics gateway.
- Global Health Observatory (GHO) – the WHO gateway for health and health-related epidemiological and statistical information.
- Group of 77 (G-77) at the United Nations
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
- International Court of Justice (ICJ)
- International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID)
- International Energy Agency (IEA) providing energy statistics including free environmental and energy data.
- International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
- International Labour Organization (ILO)
- International Monetary Fund (IMF)
- IMF Data Gaps Initiative – Launched in 2009 by the G20, the DGI is an attempt to close the policy-relevant data gaps identified following the global financial crisis of 2009.
- IMF Financial Soundness Indicators (FSIs)– provides data and detailed metadata reported on a regular basis by a first batch of member countries for 12 core and 28 encouraged FSIs. Countries may report monthly, quarterly, semiannual or annual FSIs for dissemination.
- The Joint BIS-IMF-OECD-World Bank statistics on external debt – The Bank for International Settlements, the IMF, the OECD and the World Bank provide a joint quarterly release of the external debt of 176 developing and transition countries, together with data on international reserves.
- International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
- Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and its data provider OECD Statistics are an international organisation to shape policies that foster prosperity, equality, opportunity and well-being for all.
- OECD iLibrary – the OECD’s online statistics library is a subscription service but it does contain some selected freely available datasets
- Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
- PARIS21 – set up as a global framework of national, regional and international statisticians, analysts, policymakers, development professionals and other users of statistics. It is a forum and network to promote, influence and facilitate statistical capacity development and the better use of statistics.
- World Customs Organization (WCO)
- World Food Programme (WFP)
- World Health Organization (WHO) – Data on COVID-19, the global health situation, mortality and more.
- World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
- World Trade Organization (WTO)
United Nations (UN):
- National Accounts Main Aggregates Database – contains a complete set of time series from 1970 onwards of main national accounts aggregates for more than 200 countries and territories. In addition to the values of national accounts statistics, it contains analytical indicators and ratios related to economic structure and development, country profiles and metadata.
- United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
- UNICEF’s Statistics and Monitoring– worldwide economic and social statistics on children.
- United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
- UNCTAD’s World Investment Reportfocuses on trends in foreign direct investment (FDI) worldwide at the regional and country levels. It provides information regarding global FDI flows, stocks, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, and investment treaties based on year and country.
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
- Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) Indicators for Monitoring the MDGs (Source: UNDP, 2015)
- United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Gender Statistics Database – the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe’s central database for sex-disaggregated social data.
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- UNESCO’s Institute for Statisticsprovides global and internationally comparable statistics on education, science, technology, culture and communication.
- United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
- United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT)
- United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
- UNIDO’s selected country industrial statistics– a country by country snapshot of current key industrial indicators.
- United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR)
- United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG)
- United Nations Office at Vienna (UNOV)
- United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
- United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR)
- United Nations Statistical Databases – access to a range of freely available UN databases including:
- Social Indicatorswhich cover a wide range of subject matter fields such as education, housing, health and water.
- Population density and urbanization
- Country Practices Database on official statistics methodology.
- United Nations System of Organizations – Directory: Alphabetic Listing of UN System Organizations and Entities.
- United Nations University (UNU)
The World Bank:
- World Bank Collaborative Governance disseminates a range of publications and data on national government and business environments, including:
- Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) Datasets– a survey of managers and owners of firms across the countries of Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and Turkey designed to generate comparative measurements of the quality of governance, the investment climate and the competitive environment.
- World Bank EdStats– the World Bank’s database of education statistics.
- World Bank Gender Equality Data and Statistics – a database of gender indicators, basic demographic data, population dynamics, labour force structure, education and health statistics.
- World Bank HNPStats – health, nutrition and population statistics country by country.
- World Bank ICT at a Glance – key data on information and communications technologies.
- World Bank Statistical Capacity Indicator – contains information on various aspects of national statistical systems and includes a country-level statistical capacity indicator based on a set of criteria consistent with international recommendations.