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Current Index to Statistics
Scholarly journal articles and books in statistics, probability, and related fields. Covers materials published 1975-present, with some coverage extending earlier.
Europa World Plus
Economic, political, geographic, and statistical data by country (throughout the world); maps; introductory essays on a wide range of regional issues; and lists of sources for further research. Also available in print.
Historical Statistics of the United States
Quantitative data describing aspects of US history including population, work and welfare, economic structure and performance, economic sectors, and governance and international relations. Also includes full-text introductory essays that place the statistical data in context. Users can download tables in Excel or CSV format and create custom tables by merging columns from existing tables. Also available in print.

ICPSR Data Collections
A project of the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research Data. Compiles data sets in the social sciences, including collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other areas.
IMF Accessing International Financial Statistics (IFS)
A standard source of international statistics on all aspects of international and domestic finance. It reports, for most countries of the world, current data needed in the analysis of problems of international payments and of inflation and deflation, i.e., data on exchange rates, international liquidity, international banking, money and banking, interest rates, prices, production, international transactions, government accounts, and national accounts.

Sage Data
Formerly Data-Planet, Sage Data has data sets in many subject areas, including crime and law enforcement, federal assistance, military deployment and deaths, economics, health, and demographics. Includes Data Planet Statistical Datasets, Data-Planet EASI Market Planner, and Data-Planet China Data Center.
World Development Indicators Online
The World Bank's World Development Indicators: statistical data about development in countries around the world. Covers data up to two years ago.

African Economic Outlook
Economic analysis on a country by country basis as well as a macroeconomic outlook.
ALFRED: Archival Federal Reserve Economic Data
Historical economic data!
BEA: International Economics Accounts
From the Bureau of Economic Analysis, this site tracks international trade and investments.
Bureau of Economic Analysis
From the U.S. Department of Commerce. Local, national, and international economic data.
European Central Bank: Statistics
Explores monetary policy throughout Europe.
Federal Reserve Statistics and Historical Data
The World Bank: Data
A brilliantly interactive source for international economic data and analysis. Organized by country, topic, and indicator.
TIGER: Tracking Indexes for the Global Economic Recovery
From the Brookings Institutions, an interactive map tracking performance indicators across groups of advanced economies.