Library Guides: Latin American Studies: All Disciplines: Find Data & Statistics

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Below you'll find the top online resources for finding data & statistics on Latin America, ranging from Latin America-specific and global search portals to each country's national statistics agency.

For more general resources, see Statistics & Data for the Social Sciences: A Guide.

General

CountryWatch This link opens in a new window
Up-to-date information and news on the countries of the world and for the public and private sector organizations with global operations and interests.
Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) This link opens in a new window
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Business and political intelligence for more than 200 countries. Reports and Services include: Country Reports, Global Forecasting, Events, and Risk Briefings.

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

Statistical Insight This link opens in a new window
Select Index to government and private statistical sources including international, federal, and state publications, as well as licensed business statistical reports.

Pew Hispanic Center
A nonpartisan fact tank with data about Hispanics and Latinx/e/o/as in the United States.
World DataBank
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.

Economics & Development

CEPAL Publications
Open Access, downloadable reports published by CEPAL, the Economic Commission for Latin America & the Caribbean (Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe).
CEPALSTAT (Estadísticas de la 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.
Human Development Reports (UNDP)
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.
International Energy Agency (IEA) Statistics
Energy statistics, searchable by country.
MOxLAD (Montevideo-Oxford Latin American Economic History Data Base)
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
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Economic Surveys
Includes economic surveys and reviews for Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Mexico, and other member and partner countries.
Government Finance Statistics - IMF
Database of Government Finance Statistics (GFS) from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Inter-American Development Bank
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.

Public Opinion & Elections

Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) This link opens in a new window
Formerly known as AmericasBarometer, Vanderbilt University's Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) archives datasets of surveys of democratic public opinion and behavior in the Americas using national probability samples of voting-age adults. Dataset coverage includes 2002 – present.

Latinobarómetro
An annual public opinion survey in 18 Latin American countries.

Roper iPoll This link opens in a new window
Includes archives of social science data, specializing in data from surveys of public opinion. Data ranges from the 1930's to the present. Searchable by country and includes most of Latin America & the Caribbean.

Demographics

Population Index
Database of abstracts of published books, journal articles, working papers, and other materials on population topics.
Povcal (World Bank)
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.
Migration Policy Institute
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.
Hispanic Origin (U.S. Census Bureau)
Portal to U.S. census data, news, publications, and working papers.
IPUMS
IPUMS provides census and survey data from around the world integrated across time and space

National Statistical Agencies

Web Portals

Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC): Statistics
Extensive list of statistical resources by region, as well as international resources. *Note: links last updated in 2015.