International Development Library Guide

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

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.

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

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.

Includes general background information, budgets, and statistics, and more.

IndexMundi is a data portal that gathers facts and statistics from multiple sources and turns them into easy to use visuals for a global audience.

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. It conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research. Core research topics include International Affairs and Immigration & Migration. You can search for articles by region and country as well.

This collection provides the public with access to research products produced by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) for the United States Congress. By law, CRS works exclusively for Congress, providing timely, objective, and authoritative research and analysis to committees and Members of both the House and Senate, regardless of political party affiliation.

Global Map of Official Development Aid (ODA)--where humanitarian aid funds are from, where they are going, and progress on appeals--provided by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

Freedom House supports democratic change, monitors freedom, and advocates for democracy and human rights around the world, primary by providing information and analysis, as well as trainings, and on-site technical advice.

Provides overviews and analysis of world nations focusing on health and health care issues including statistics relating to all countries.

Short reports which provide information on the legislative and institutional capacity of Council of Europe member and observer states to fight against terrorism.

U.S. law requires the Secretary of State to provide Congress, by April 30 of each year, a full and complete report on terrorism with regard to those countries and groups meeting criteria set forth in the legislation. This annual report is entitled Country Reports on Terrorism. Beginning with the report for 2004, it replaced the previously published Patterns of Global Terrorism.