LibGuides: United Nations: Statistical Sources

Statistical Sources Online at the United Nations

African Centre for Statistics
From the Economic Commission for Africa
ESCAP - Advancing Statistics for Development
ESCAP is the most comprehensive of the United Nations five regional commissions, and the largest United Nations body serving the Asia-Pacific region.
FAOSTAT
"provides time-series and cross sectional data relating to food and agriculture for some 200 countries"
Human Development Reports
International Labour Organization Statistical Databases
International Monetary Fund -- Data & Statistics
Millennium Development Goals Indicators
Official data, definitions, methodologies and sources for indicators to measure progress towards the MDGs.
Monthly Bulletin of Statistics Online
Data from the Department of Economic and Social Affairs
Follow-up and monitoring implementation of major United Nations conferences.
Statistical Database of the Economic Commission for Europe
Comparable data for Europe, North America and Central Asia.
State of the World's Children Reports
UN Commodity Trade Statistics Database (Comtrade)
International trade statistics by commodities and partner countries.
UN Data
A single entry point to significant UN Statistical Databases
UN Statistics Division
Be sure to look at the "Statistical Databases" tab! Even MORE stats! Yay!!
UNCTAD Statistics
Trade & Development
UN Data for Sustainable Development
"Global and internationally comparable statistics on education, science, culture and communication. "
World Bank Data Catalog
Information on global health, business, finance, environment & social welfare statistics are now (as of April, 2010) accessible to the public!
World Health Organization Data Collections