LibGuides: Politics, Policy, & International Relations: Data and Statistics

U.S. Census & Demographics

data.Census.gov
Census Bureau’s new data platform, replacing American Factfinder.
Statistical Abstract of the United States
Statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. 1878-present.
Historical Statistics of the United States
Searchable and downloadable compendium of statistics that includes over 37,000 data series on various topics. Allows users to graph individual tables and create customized tables and spreadsheets.

Social Explorer
Interactive tool that combines modern and historical US census and demographic data with an intuitive map interface. 1790-present.
Policy Map
Create custom maps of the U.S. Use included demographic, home sale, health, school performance, unemployment, and crime data, plus yours.

Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
Gold standard of curation, cleaning, and description of datasets. Includes government data as well as researcher-created data, including election data, opinion polls, more.
General Social Survey
The GSS contains a standard 'core' of demographic, behavioral, and attitudinal questions, plus topics of special interest. Many of the core questions have remained unchanged since 1972 to facilitate time-trend studies as well as replication of earlier findings.

Statistical Insight
Statistical information from the U.S., international governments, and organizations and associations.
Statista
Statista provides access to statistics and studies gathered by market researchers, trade organizations, scientific publications, and government sources on over 600 industries.

Data.gov
The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government.
Data Planet
Provides access to statistical data produced by U.S. Federal agencies, States, private organizations, and major intergovernmental organizations. There are up to 2 billion charts, maps, views, rankings, time series and tables available for use in the Data-Planet repository.
Analyze Boston
City of Boston's open data hub.

African Development Indicators
World Bank detailed collection of development data on Africa.
China Data Online
Current and historical data for China, including geospatial data/GIS and Census data. It provides easy access to the various statistical yearbooks published by the National Bureau of Statistics of China, comprehensive statistics, and Census data of economy and population at national, provincial, city, county, and even township levels.

OECD iLibrary
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development covers trade, environment, agriculture, technology, and economic development. Extensive statistical information, including Country Statistical Profiles.

UNdata
Search a variety of United Nations statistical databases.
Women Stats Project
Compilation of information on the status of women in the world. Aims to highlight the linkage between the situation of women and the security of nation-states.
World Bank Development Indicators
World Development Indicators (WDI) is the primary World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized international sources. It presents the most current and accurate global development data available, and includes national, regional and global estimates.