African Studies Library Guide

The World Factbook provides basic information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.

World Bank briefs and reports on economic conditions of geographic regions and individual countries of the world.

Full profiles of individual countries, covering history, politics and economic background of each country and territory, and background on key institutions. Also included are audio and video clips from BBC archives.

These publications include facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of independent states, some dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty. The Background Notes are updated/revised by the Office of Electronic Information and Publications of the Bureau of Public Affairs as they are received from the Department's regional bureaus.

A pan-African series of national public attitude surveys on democracy, governance, and society

U.N. Human Development Reports - search by country.

World Economic Outlook Databases (WEO). Download data for GDP growth, inflation, unemployment, payments balances, exports, imports, external debt, capital flows, commodity prices, and more.

World DataBank (formerly World Development Indicators Online) is a database of statistics from the World Bank’s Data Group. The resource provides simple and quick access to collections of time series data and has advanced functions for selecting and displaying data, performing customized queries, downloading data, and creating charts and maps. Users can create custom reports based on countries, indicators and years. All these reports can be easily edited, shared, and embedded as widgets on websites or blogs.