Country Files

Prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency for the use of U.S. Government officials. Each country profile includes brief information about the country's history, geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military, transnational issues.

This database, provided by the International Labour Office, Department of Statistics, offers international data on employment and labor.

A site from the U.S. Department of Commerce that provides information for U.S.-based businesses to export to other nations. Some materials are restricted to registered businesses, but most directory information and some market analysis reports are freely available.

This site from the Bank for International Settlement provides the latest international data available, mainly from creditor sources, on banking statistics, securities, derivatives, foreign exchange, and external debt for all countries worldwide. Reports are available in PDF form and as spreadsheets.

The site provides statistics by country on a wide variety of topics. They include: Military expenditures, Arms Production and Trade Memberships, Agreements, and Events, Conflicts and Peace Keeping Activities, and Political System and Country Indicators.

Portal for many trusted links to information and learning resources. From the Center for International Business Education and Research at Michigan State University.

The Doing Business Project provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 185 economies and selected cities at the subnational and regional level.

Book length studies of countries from the Library of Congress. Updated very infrequently. Many are quite old. These studies offer an analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, and political institutions of the country in question.

The WSU Library's list of links to websites that provide statistical data on many countries in the world.