Research Guides: Business & Management: Finding Demographic and Economic Statistics

Statistical Compendia

Statista This link opens in a new window
Why search here? Explore quantitative data and statistics from a wide range of international sources on a variety of industry and social topics.
Content type: Statistics, data, industry reports, reports, graphs
Coverage dates: 2008-present
Statista also provides a variety of reports and graphs about popular and current topics.
Language: English
Sage Data This link opens in a new window
Why search here? Gateway to billions of datapoints from a range of organizations with valuable tools to help interpret and visualize selected data sets.
Content type: Data
Coverage dates: 1948-present
Language: English
Keywords: Data Planet Insight

Demographic and Labor Statistics

ACS (American Community Survey) Data
Data.census.gov has replaced ACS which replaced American Factfinder as the engine for searching the Census Bureau for any Data
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
ILO (International Labor Organization)

Consumer Statistics

Consumer Expenditure Survey
Provides information on the buying habits of American consumers, including data on their expenditures, income, and consumer unit (families and single consumers) characteristics. Provides information on the complete range of consumers' expenditures and incomes, as well as the characteristics of those consumers.
Economy Consumer spending: Countries Compared
Great link comparing consumer spending by country.

International Organization Database Links

International Organization Databases have a wide range of demographic and economic information available from each database, some organized by purpose, some by geography - I have listed several in each category.

Economic Indicators

Europa Data & Statistics (in English)
Link to Europa;"The Gateway to the European Union". Most of the information is free.

IMF Data This link opens in a new window
Why search here? Good for bank and government financial data from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Content type: Data
Includes International Financial Statistics (1948-present), Government Finance Statistics, Balance of Payments Statistics (1948-present) and Direction of Trade Statistics (1980-present).
Language: English, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Spanish

World Trade Organization
Source of policies and statistics for world trade.

Demographic and Social Indicators

World Health Organization Data
The GHO data repository provides access to over 50 datasets on priority health topics including mortality and burden of diseases, the Millennium Development Goals (child nutrition, child health, maternal and reproductive health,
UNESCO Institute For Statistics
(UIS) - the primary source for internationally comparable statistics on education, science and technology, culture, and communication for more than 200 countries and territories.

UNdata This link opens in a new window
Why search here? Good for simultaneously searching major United Nations and other international statistical databases to access some of the oldest socioeconomic data available.
Content type: Data, economic data, statistics
Coverage dates: 1950-present
Includes current information on populations, trade, standard of living, and the environment.
Language: English
Keywords: UN Data