Research Guides: Global and Transcultural Communication: Statistics and Country Info

Country Profiles

Europa World Yearbook
Substantive profiles for countries, regions, and territories. Profiles include political and economic information as well as statistics and information on religion, media and press, and more.
EIU Country Reports
Each report examines and explains countries' current circumstances, including the political scene, economic policy, domestic economy, sectoral trends, and foreign trade and payments. Detailed two-year forecasts complement the analysis and pinpoint political and economic developments and trends.
CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is designed to be the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs.
It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 on that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences. Each section of CIAO is updated with new material on a regular schedule. Working papers are augmented every month, as are conference proceedings, policy briefs and economic indicators. Links and resources, the schedule of events and the response files are updated weekly. New journal issues and books are added as they become available.
World Bank Country Profiles

General Statistics

OECD Factbook
OECD's comprehensive statistical annual includes a wide range of key statistics for its member countries and major additional countries. For each indicator presented, there is explanatory text including a definition, explanation of long-term trends, and references; a table showing the indicator over a significant time span for all countries covered, and graphics showing the key messages contained in the data. Enter the OECD library, then follow the link to the Factbook.
EIU City Data
Contains pricing information on more than 160 products and services in 123 cities worldwide. You can check everything from the cost of a loaf of bread in Adelaide to the average electricity bill of a local family in Zurich.

International Communication and Media Statistics

UN Data
Portal to statistics collected by the United Nations, including those collected by the International Telecommunications Union. Use this site to find international statistics on book production, cell phone subscribers, cinema attendance, radio and television receivers, etc. Data is available for more than 60 countries worldwide. This is not the place to come for ratings data.
SourceOECD: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Search for OECD Communications Outlook to see annual reports. Also includes reports on broadband, etc. Do a general search for "information communications technologies" for additional documents of interest.
International Telecommunications Union
World Internet Project
"a major, international, collaborative project looking at the social, political and economic impact of the Internet and other new technologies". Click on Published to see internet usage reports for member countries.
SRDS International Media Guide Newspapers Worldwide
Contains circulation and/or readership statistics for major individual newspapers around the world. Search by country or geographic region or individual newspaper title.
SRDS International Media Guide Consumer (Magazines) Worldwide
Contains circulation and/or readership statistics for consumer magazines around the world. Search by country or geographic region or individual magazine title.

World Loanword Database (WOLD)

World Loanword Database (WOLD)
The World Loanword Database, edited by Martin Haspelmath and Uri Tadmor, is a scientific publication by the Max Planck Digital Library, Munich (2009). It provides vocabularies (mini-dictionaries of about 1000-2000 entries) of 41 languages from around the world, with comprehensive information about the loanword status of each word. It allows users to find loanwords, source words and donor languages in each of the 41 languages, but also makes it easy to compare loanwords across languages.

Country-Specific Statistical Resources

Chinese Statistical Yearbooks Database This link opens in a new window
The Chinese Statistical Yearbooks Database (中国经济社会大数据研究平台) offers a wide variety of economic, social and environmental statistical information. Users can find information through a data search (with a standard, an index value, and an index definition mode), a data analysis tool (enabling comparison by districts, indexes, years), and yearbook navigation. The database includes all aspects and fields: national accounting, fixed assets investment, population and human resources, people’s living conditions and price indices, enterprises and institutions, finance, natural resources, energy and environment, political and public administration, peasants and agriculture and rural areas, industry, construction, transportation and telecommunication, domestic trade and foreign trade, touring, catering, education and technology, culture and sports, and public health.

To return to the old interface, once you go to the database click on 返回旧版 (Back to Old Version) at the top left corner.

IndiaStat
**Click on "IP LOGIN" button to authenticate. Access to statistics on health, higher education, agricultural and industrial production information, economic statistics, and tourism related data in India. The database also contains information bank and financial institutions, companies, co-operatives, crime and law, population, foreign trade, labour and workforce, housing, media, power, transport, urban-rural settlements and economy in India and more.
Africa Development Indicators
Contains over 1,000 indicators and time series from 1965 for 53 countries. Data include social, economic, financial, natural resources, infrastructure, governance, partnership, and environmental indicators. Results can be scaled, mapped, and charted.
Eurostat
Provides statistics at European level that enable comparisons between countries and regions. Created by the European Commission.

CQ Global Researcher

CQ Global Researcher provides students with definitive, in-depth coverage of global affairs from a number of international viewpoints. CQ Global Researcher offers focused, single-topic reports on vital world issues. Each single-themed, 12,000-word CQ Global Researcher report is researched and written by an experienced observer of the given issue. Coverage extends back ninety years and includes major current and historical world events.