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Macroeconomic Data Sets

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50 Jahre Deutsche Mark 
Time series from the Deutsche Bank covering monetary, banking and capital markets from 1948 to 1997. [Full details ]

 

ComExt (Intra- and Extra-EU trade data) 
Harmonised and comparable statistical database for EU external merchandise trade, and merchandise trade between EU member states. The database is compiled by Eurostat, using observations from the national statistical offices of member states. [Full details ]

 

Cross-National Time-Series 
Longitudinal, international and national data for 200 states from 1815 to present. Contains 194 variables including statistics on population, government revenue and per capita GDP. [Full details ]

 

Datastream (Thomson Reuters)  
Datastream is a financial and macroeconomic database, covering major instruments, company fundamentals, equities, fixed income securities and economic indicators for 177 countries and 60 markets worldwide. [Full details ]

 

Demographic Yearbook (UN) 
Annual worldwide statistics on population size and composition, births, marriages, deaths and divorce for states and territories worldwide. [Full details ]

 

Direction of Trade Statistics (IMF)  
Over 100,000 time series of annual, quarterly and monthly trade data for 187 countries from the early 1980s to present. [Full details ]

 

Direction of Trade Statistics Historical (IMF) 
Time series of annual, quarterly and monthly trade data for most countries, from 1948 to 1980. [Full details ]

 

ECB Statistical Data Warehouse  
Database of Eurozone and EU statistics, in table and interactive chart format, with a variety of export options. Platform offers a comprehensive range of data relevant to the European economy and the activities of the ECB. [Full details ]

 

Eurostat Dissemination Database 
Official EU data portal providing a range of statistics, enabling comparisons between European countries and regions over nine primary data themes. [Full details ]

 

Eurostat Yearbook 
Annual statistical publication providing overview data on the 27 member states of the European Union, other European countries and selected non-EU states. [Full details ]

 

Gender Info (United Nations) 
Compilation of international statistics on gender, population and social development worldwide (formerly known as WiStat). [Full details ]

 

Genesis (German Official Statistics Portal) 
German Federal Statistics Office data on population, regions, work, elections, education, social benefits, health, environment, external trade, prices, consumption, public finance and other socioeconomic topics. [Full details ]

 

Global Development Finance  
Data on total external debts of 128 countries in the World Bank's Debtor reporting System (DRS); updated annually with a narrative account of recent trends and tables summarising capital flows and debt statistics for reporting countries. Data is from 1970 to present. [Full details ]

 

Government Finance Statistics (IMF) 
Data on revenue, expenditure, transactions and stocks in assets and liabilities for the state sector and sub-sectors. Contains time series for all reported sub-sectors of general government expenditure for 137 countries since 1990. [Full details ]

 

Government Finance Statistics Historical (IMF) 
Over 19,000 time series of annual revenue, expenditure and other government transactions for 149 countries, from 1972 to 1989. See also Government Finance Statistics (IMF) . [Full details ]

 

Guida all'Italia contemporanea, 1861-1997 (Garzanti) 
CD-rom companion to the 'Guida all'Italia contemporanea' paper format publication, including all statistical tables in the 'Dati e documenti' section. [Full details ]

 

Historical Statistics of the U.S. (Census Bureau)
 
Compendium of approximately 13,000 statistical series on a range of social, behavioral, human and environmental topics from the United States Census Bureau. [Full details ]

 

Human Development Report (UNDP) 
UNDP annual report with statistical data, covering four composite indices for all countries in the UN system: Human Development Index, Gender-related Development Index, Gender Empowerment Measure and Human Poverty Index [Full details ]

 

International Energy Agency database (IEA) 
Statistics on energy production, trade, stocks, consumption, prices, taxes and data on greenhouse gas emissions, accessed via the OECD iLibrary  database. [Full details ]

 

International Financial Statistics (IMF) 
International statistics on exchange rates, international liquidity, money and banking, interest rates, prices, production, international transactions and national accounts worldwide. [Full details ]

 

International Labour Organization / LABORSTA-Economically Active Population  
Labour market data and projections of total population, activity rates, economically active population and estimates of labour force distribution in 180 countries and territories. [Full details ]

 

New Cronos (pre-2003, Eurostat) 
Economic and social statistical data covering EC/EU member states to 2003 and – for some series – the USA, Japan and other economic partners. See also the online Eurostat Dissemination Database . [Full details ]

 

Nordic Statistics (Statistisk Sentralbyrå) 
Statistics Across Borders (Statistik utan Graenser) provides data for the Nordic countries (in national languages) and a common Nordic base with harmonised Nordic Statistics (in English). [Full details ]

 

OECD – iLibrary  
The main source for OECD data and documentation with access to 390 complete databases; 5,500 e-books and 2,500 working papers. Major statistical series range from the 1960s to present. All OECD publications from 1998 to 2010 included. Data from The International Energy Agency (IEA); Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA); PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) and the International Transport Forum (ITF). [Full details ]

 

REGIO (pre-2004, Eurostat) 
European regional data on CD-rom to 2004. Regio is now part of Theme 1, Eurostat Dissemination Database  online (see above), providing harmonised regional statistics on main aspects of economic and social life in the European Union. [Full details ]

 

Social Security Worldwide (ISSA) 
Compiled by the International Social Security Association, providing statistical data and legislative information regarding social security issues globally. Numerical data series are from 1994. [Full details ]

 

United Nations - UNdata  
Combined database of more than 300 statistical series from UN agencies and partners, covering agriculture, crime, education, employment, energy, environment, health, HIV/AIDS, human development, industry, information technology, national accounts, population, refugees and tourism. [Full details ]

 

UN COMtrade [international merchandise trade statistics]  
International merchandise trade statistics for over 140 countries since 1962, denominated in U.S. dollars. [Full details ]

 

UNCTAD data  
The UN Conference on Trade and Development provides data on core themes via UNCTADstat: International Merchandise Trade; International Trade in Services; Foreign Direct Investment; External Financial Resources; Population and Labour Force; Commodities, and; Maritime Transport. [Full details ]

 

UNICEF ChildInfo 
The ChildInfo data portal provides access to UNICEF Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys; The State of the World's Children, Progress for Children and the UNICEF TransMonee database on Central-Eastern Europe. [Full details ]

 

Universität Bern Comparative Institutional Data Set 
Collection of political and institutional data assembled in the context of the research project 'Die Handlungsspielräume des Nationalstaates' sponsored by the Swiss National Science Foundation. [Full details ]

 

WIIW – Data Portal: Statistics on Central and Eastern Europe 
Portal from the Wiener Institut für Internationale Wirtschaftsvergleiche (Vienna) providing economic statistics on Central and Eastern Europe, research reports (including reprints), analytical forecasts, current analyses and country profiles for transition economies – as well as the WIIW Handbook of Statistics (see below). [Full details ]

 

WIIW – Database on Foreign Direct Investment for Central and Eastern Europe 
FDI statistics for the ten 2004 EU accession states, all Southeast European countries and the European CIS members. Over 2,500 time series on FDI stocks and flows by economic activity and by investing country. [Full details ]

 

WIIW – Industrial Database on Central and Eastern Europe 
Industry series data on Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia since 1989 (where available from national statistical agencies). [Full details ]

 

World Bank data 
World Bank Open Data provides online access to major series of international economic and development statistics, including World Development Indicators; Global Development Finance; Millennium Development Indicators; Doing Business database; Education Statistics and Gender Statistics. [Full details ]

 

World Development Indicators  
Database of global development in six categories: World View, People, Environment, Economy, States and Markets, and Global Links. The database, compiled by the World Bank and international partners, covers more than 900 indicators for 210 economies, with data from 1960 to present. [Full details 

 


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