Research Guides: Diplomacy and World Affairs: Finding Data

Key DWA Data Sets

World Bank
Free and open access to data about development in countries around the globe.

EIU Economist Intelligence Unit - Country data via CIAO This link opens in a new window
Find up-to-date economic, political, and geographic information by country.

IMF Data
Search financial statistics by country, topic, or data source. *This is the open source version with limited data available without subscription.
Population Reference Bureau (PRB)
PRB data sheets are ready references of demographic and health indicators by country and region including population projections and key data insights.
CIRIGHTS Data Project
The largest human rights dataset in the world, CIRIGHT scores a representative sample of all internationally recognized human rights for all countries of the world since 1981.
UN Statistical Yearbook
Provides a comprehensive compilation of internationally available statistics on social and economic conditions and activities, at world, regional and national levels, for an appropriate historical period.

U.S. Census Bureau This link opens in a new window
Leading source of up-to-date demographic data about the United States people and economy.
IPUMS This link opens in a new window
Database of census and survey data from around the world integrated across time and space. Users must create a free account to access.
ICPSR Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research This link opens in a new window
Data archive hosting 16 specialized data collections in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other social science fields.

Bureau of Labor Statistics
Principal Federal agency responsible for measuring labor market activity, working conditions, and price changes in the economy.
FRED Economic Research
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Download, graph, and track 672,000 US and international time series from 89 sources
State of Working America Data Library
Provides researchers, media, and the public with easily accessible, up-to-date, and comprehensive historical data on the American labor force. It is compiled from Economic Policy Institute analysis of government data sources. Use it to research wages, inequality, and other economic indicators over time and among demographic groups.
General Social Survey
Contains a standard 'core' of demographic, behavioral, and attitudinal questions, plus topics of special interest since 1972 to facilitate time-trend studies as well as replication of earlier findings.
American National Election Studies
ANES produces high quality data from its own surveys on voting, public opinion, and political participation.
National Center for Education Statistics
The primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education in the U.S. and other nations.

CLASP Center for Law and Social Policy - Data This link opens in a new window
CLASP conducts analysis of national, state, and local data to accurately document racial disparities and disparate policy impacts by race to inform our policy recommendations and advocacy.

American Immigration Council
State-by-state immigration data and facts.
World Bank
Free and open access to data about development in countries around the globe.
UN Statistics Department
Compiles and disseminates global statistical information, develop standards and norms for statistical activities, and support countries' efforts to strengthen their national statistical systems.