Research Guides: Data Sources: International/Area Studies

International & Area Studies

UNdata
UNdata is the data download portal of the United Nations. Users can search by country, year, and indicator and create custom data extracts to download. UNData also includes an API that developers can use to query, display results externally, and download to local storage for further analysis. The data portal includes datasets from the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), World Health Organization (WHO), and more.

World Development Indicators
500 time series indicators for 148 countries and regional and income groups, with basic indicators for a further 62 countries. Time series for most indicators cover 1960 to the present.

OECD
OECD (formerly OECD iLibrary) is the online portal for the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. The OCED content includes book collections, policy reports, statistical abstracts, and the OECD.Stat tool, with which users can create custom extracts from the OECD data warehouse.
Cross-National Time-Series Data Archive
The Cross-National Time-Series (CNTS) Data Archive is a longitudinal national data series and provides ranges of annual data from 1815 to the present. CNTS offers a comprehensive extent of variables and country facts. The information base goes back to 1815, thus giving the most complete and farthest reaching archive of demographic values.

Caucasusbarometer
CRRC's public databases give everyone the opportunity to understand and evaluate the social and political trends in both Georgia and the entire South Caucasus.

AmericasBarometer
AmericasBarometer/Barómetro de las Américas, overseen by Vanderbilt University's Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP), provides access to data from regularly conducted surveys in 26 Latin American and Caribbean countries and the U.S. and Canada regarding perspectives on political and social issues. Users of this resource can download raw data, questionnaires, and code-books for surveys dating back to 2004.
Follow this link to use LAPOP's interactive data analysis tool.