.Political Science (General): Statistical Sources

From the U.S. Census - "Your source for population, housing, economic, and geographic data."

official site to the Bureau with numerous links to contemporary, recent and projected census and demographic data.

published since 1878, this is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Also serves as a guide to sources of more information both in print and on the Web.

Major U.S. Government statistical publications

"...makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate."

Census Reporter is a Knight News Challenge-funded project to make it easier for journalists to write stories using information from the U.S. Census bureau. Place profiles and comparison pages provide a friendly interface for navigating data, including visualizations for a more useful first look.

integrated database containing information from research institutes around the world. Coverage includes data on armed conflicts and peace keeping, arms production and trade, military expenditure, armed forces and conventional weapons holding, nuclear weapons, chronology, statistics and other reference data.

The Global Poverty Mapping Project has downloadable poverty data sets and maps. The Poverty Mapping Project is sponsored by CIESIN (The Center for International Earth Science Information Network) at the Earth Institute, Columbia University.

global development indicators published by the United Nations Development Progamme

information about economic and financial data disseminated by member countries

designed by a web publishing company in Australia, this site gathers statistics from a variety of sources, mostly international agencies, and presents them in an easy-to-use and interesting graphical formats. Links to ads are present but are generally unobtrusive.

List of global statistical agencies

provides access to free statistics from official sources on the web. Web links are arranged by country, region or subject. All of the content of the database is held in the public domain and is available through the Internet. Many data are downloadable as text or spreadsheet files.

"...comprehensive statistical annual showing a wide range of key statistics for its member countries and major additional countries."

Browse data by country

"...makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate."