The World Development Indicators data sets include indicators for many aspects of global development, including agriculture, energy, environment, health, infrastructure and poverty, to name just a few.
FAOSTAT provides time-series and cross sectional data relating to food, agriculture, and forestry for some 200 countries from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Located at Cornell University, this center is one of the world’s leading archives of social science data, specializing in data from surveys of public opinion. The data held by the Roper Center range from the 1930s to the present. Most of the data are from the United States, but over 50 nations are represented.
ICPSR maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction. Mason Users Only: must create MyData account to download data.
Enables users to quickly create professional-quality thematic maps and reports using demographic, business, and marketing data. Data includes Census (1980 - Present), American Community Survey, and both Simmons and MRI Consumer Survey Data. Users may create accounts to save their work. For more information, see the SimplyAnalytics InfoGuide. Tutorial for the SimplyAnalytics database.
From the World Resources Institute, provides a comprehensive and comparable database of greenhouse gas emissions data (including all major sources and sinks) and other climate-relevant indicators
Data linking pollution and natural resources with activities in economic sectors and data showing the state of air, inland waters, wildlife, etc., for OECD countries.
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