Latin American Studies: All Disciplines

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

A nonpartisan fact tank with data about Hispanics and Latinx/e/o/as in the United States.

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.

Open Access, downloadable reports published by CEPAL, the Economic Commission for Latin America & the Caribbean (Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe).

Databases and Statistical Publications of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. Webpage available in Spanish and English.

The annual Human Development Report, commissioned by UNDP, focuses the global debate on key development issues, providing new measurement tools, innovative analysis and often controversial policy proposals.

Energy statistics, searchable by country.

Contains statistical series for a wide range of economic and social indicators covering twenty countries in the region for the twentieth century up to today

Includes economic surveys and reviews for Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Mexico, and other member and partner countries.

Database of Government Finance Statistics (GFS) from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

The IDB, established in 1959 to support the process of economic and social development in Latin America and the Caribbean, is the main source of multilateral financing in the region.

An annual public opinion survey in 18 Latin American countries.

Database of abstracts of published books, journal articles, working papers, and other materials on population topics.

Tool that replicates the calculations made by the World Bank's researchers in estimating the extent of absolute poverty in the world. PovcalNet also allows you to calculate the poverty measures under different assumptions and to assemble the estimates using alternative country groupings or for any set of individual countries of you're choosing.

Based in Washington, D.C., the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute seeks to improve immigration and integration policies through authoritative research and analysis, opportunities for learning and dialogue, and the development of new ideas to address complex policy questions.

Portal to U.S. census data, news, publications, and working papers.

IPUMS provides census and survey data from around the world integrated across time and space

Extensive list of statistical resources by region, as well as international resources. *Note: links last updated in 2015.