Research Resources
Bibliographies
Foreign Aid Data
- OECD: http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/50/17/5037721.htm
- Resource Flows project: http://www.resourceflows.org/
- Center for Global Development: http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/11941
- CGD Net Aid Transfers data set (1960-2008): http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/5492
Opinion Data
- Pew Global Attitudes Project: http://pewglobal.org/category/data-sets/
- Afrobarometer: http://www.afrobarometer.org/
- World Values Survey: http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/
NGOs
- World Association of Non-Governmental Organizations: http://www.wango.org/resources.aspx?section=ngodir
- Directory of Development Organizations: http://www.devdir.org/
- United Nations Directory of African NGOs: http://www.un.org/africa/osaa/ngodirectory/index.htm
Democracy/Freedom/Political Systems
- Cheibub and collaborators: https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/cheibub/www/datasets.html
- Freedom House Political Rights and Civil Liberties: http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=15
- Economist Intelligence Unit democracy index: http://www.economist.com/media/pdf/democracy_index_2007_v3.pdf
- Heritage Foundation index of economic freedom: http://www.heritage.org/research/features/index/index.cfm
- Polity IV Dataset, which includes information on autocracy, democracy, and regime length: http://www.systemicpeace.org/polity/polity4.htm
- Mo Ibrahim Foundation (index of African governance, safety & security, rule of law, participation & human rights, sustainable economic opportunity, human development): http://www.moibrahimfoundation.org/
- Transparancy International Corruption Perception Index: http://www.transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/cpi
- World Bank Governance and Anti-Corruption Index: http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/WBI/EXTWBIGOVANTCOR/0,,contentMDK:20771165~menuPK:1866365~pagePK:64168445~piPK:64168309~theSitePK:1740530,00.html
- CIRI Human Rights Dataset: http://ciri.binghamton.edu/index.asp
- Inter-Parliamentary Union (women in parliaments, election systems, etc.): http://www.ipu.org/english/home.htm
- International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (quotas for women, voter turnout, civic education, reconciliation): http://www.idea.int/resources/databases.cfm
- Database of Political Institutions (information on parties and characteristics of the executive for most countries in the world 1975-2006): http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/0,,contentMDK:20649465~pagePK:64214825~piPK:64214943~theSitePK:469382,00.html
- Index of African Governance (competitor to the Mo Ibrahim Foundation index): http://www.nber.org/data/iag.html
Environment
- SOPAC Environmental Vulnerability Index: www.vulnerabilityindex.net/
- SEDAC list of data sources: http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data.html
- Global Footprint Network: http://www.footprintnetwork.org/
- Earth Trends (not only environment): http://earthtrends.wri.org/searchable_db/index.php?theme=10
- China Energy Group Databook: http://china.lbl.gov/databook
War/Conflict
- Minorities at Risk Project (ethnic conflict data): http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/mar/
- Correlates of War (civil war data): http://www.correlatesofwar.org/datasets.htm
- Uppsala Conflict database: http://www.pcr.uu.se/gpdatabase/search.php
- Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research Conflict Barometer(s): http://www.hiik.de/en/konfliktbarometer/index.html
- Global Terrorism Database: http://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/
Humanitarian Issues
- UNDP’s Human Development Report: http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/data/
- Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre: estimated number of IDPs and country background
- UN Peacekeeping Missions: http://www.un.org/Depts/dpko/dpko/co_mission/unikom.htm
- Emergency Events – Natural and Man-Made Disasters: EM-DAT: http://www.emdat.be/Database/terms.html
- Reuters Alert Net (statistics related to humanitarian issues): link
- UN High Commissioner for Refugees (statistics related to displacement): http://www.unhcr.org
- World Refugee Survey (by the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants): http://www.refugees.org/article.aspx?id=1343
Security
- International Relations and Security Trends: http://first.sipri.org
- List of US-declared terrorist groups: http://www.state.gov/j/ct/rls/other/des/123085.htm
- UN Office on Drugs and Crime productions, seizures, prices, consumption (additional links in left sidebar): http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/WDR.html
- EU defense data: http://www.eda.europa.eu/defencefacts/
- Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism: http://www.mipt.org/
Economics
- Penn World Tables: http://pwt.econ.upenn.edu/php_site/pwt63/pwt63_form.php
- World Bank World Development Indicators: http://www.worldbank.org/data
- Mix Market (microfinance data): http://www.themix.org/
- Trade and tariff data: http://dataweb.usitc.gov/
- Trade Stats Express: http://tse.export.gov
- Economic Data from National Bureau of Economic Research: http://www.nber.org/data
- World Economic Forum (gender gap, competitiveness): http://www.weforum.org/en/index.htm
- Economic Freedom Network: http://www.freetheworld.com/index.html
- UN Conference on Trade and Development Report (bilateral investment treaties signed, transnationality index of host economies, etc.): http://www.unctad.org/Templates/Page.asp?intItemID=1485
- UNDP GINI index: http://hdrstats.undp.org/indicators/147.html
- Fred Solt’s Standardized World Income Inequality Databasehttp://www.siu.edu/~fsolt/swiid/swiid.html
- Angus Maddison: http://www.ggdc.net/maddison/
- UNCTAD’s Foreign Direct Investment databasehttp://stats.unctad.org/fdi/
Health
Population
- UN Population Fund: http://www.unfpa.org/swp/2007/english/notes/indicators.html
- UN World Population Prospects (allows you to estimate future population): http://esa.un.org/wpp/
- Population Reference Bureau Datafinder (population, education, economy, environment, health, HIV/AIDS, reproductive health),: www.prb.org/DataFinder.aspx
Communications/Media
- ITU statistics (telecommunications): http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/index.html
- Reporters without Borders World Press Freedom Index: http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=29031
- IREX Media Sustainability Index (Eurasia/SE Europe, MENA, Africa): http://www.irex.org/msi/index.asp
- World Journalism Education Census: http://wjec.ou.edu/census.html
- Freedom House’s Freedom of the Press Survey: http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=16
- Reuters Alert Net World Press Tracker (which stories and NGOS get coverage): http://www.alertnet.org/thefacts/FACTIVA/mediaindex.htm?rt=1&period=0&from=2006-09-21&to=2007-02-22&code=emergencycode&ngonetworkcode_unsel=&emergencycode_unsel=&begin=2006-09-21&yesterday=2007-02-22&submit=Generate%2520Graph&submit=Reset%2520options
Globalization
- Mapping Globalization: http://www.princeton.edu/~mapglobe/HTML/home.html
- KOF Index of Globalization: http://globalization.kof.ethz.ch/
- Foreign Policy’s 2007 Globalization Index: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4030
Other Data Sources
- International Social Survey Program (ISSP)
- World Economic Forum Gender Gap Report: http://www.weforum.org/en/Communities/Women%20Leaders%20and%20Gender%20Parity/GenderGapNetwork/index.htm
- UN Data: http://data.un.org/
- UN Statistics Division: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/databases.htm
- UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs: http://www.un.org/esa/desa/
- Migration Data from the Migration Policy Institute: www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/2008DataGuide.pdf
- Food and Agriculture Organization data: http://faostat.fao.org/default.aspx
- USDA Economic Research Service (meat and livestock in us trade, how much do Americans pay for fruits and veg): http://www.ers.usda.gov/
- Labor statistics: http://laborsta.ilo.org/
- Eurostat: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page?pageid=1090,30070682,1090_33076576&_dad=portal&schema=PORTAL
- African Development Bank Group (links on left for data on poverty, environment, gender, Millennium Development Goals, etc.): http://www.afdb.org/portal/page?pageid=473,8878258&_dad=portal&schema=PORTAL
- African Union Statistical Unit: http://www.africa-union.org/root/au/OtherPages/EA/st/statistical.htm
- Nation Master statistical data: http://www.nationmaster.com/statistics
- CIA World Factbook: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/
- Human Development Reports: http://hdr.undp.org/en/
and: http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/data/ - State Dept. 2008 trafficking report: http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2008/
- State Dept list of yearly UN voting patterns compared with the U.S.: http://www.state.gov/p/io/conrpt/vtgprac
- Ethnic, linguistic, and religious fractionalization data (search for “fractionalization” on page): http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty_pages/romain.wacziarg/papersum.html
- Data on Oil Production and Reserves: BP Statistical World Review: www.bp.com/productlanding.do
- Global Policy Forum (Kyoto treaty signatories, volume of arms transfers, prisoners in the population): http://www.globalpolicy.org/resource/graphs.htm
- UNESCO (education, culture, science, communication: exports of cultural goods, linguistic diversity on the internet): http://www.uis.unesco.org/ev.php?ID=2867_201&ID2=DO_TOPIC