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Arthur Banks' data available through the AU library web page. If you use this data, you'll also want to explore the .

An extensive archive of databases for students and scholars of international relations.

Multiple datasets, including cross-national and time-series democracy and election data.

The QoG Data includes over 500 variables measured across 191 countries. Cross-national and time-series data, as well as tools for data visualization, are available.

Brings together information from across 34 UN Databases.

Earlier versions (back to 1981) are available through the AU library .

Kyoto Treaty signatories, volumes of arms transfers, prison populations, and more.

Online databases on aid and other resource flows.

Data on the flow of Population and Development aid around the world.

Download the replication files for this project on the effectiveness of international aid.

A new measure of foreign aid flows.

U.S. Government foreign assistance since 1945. The is also available to explore.

Extensive data and customizable maps of financial development assistance.

An excellent tool for visualizing the international flow of foreign aid.

Data from Pew's annual, 39-nation survey. Surveys go back to 2001.

Download data from regular, national surveys on democracy and governance in 35 African countries.

Since 1995, ³¢²¹³Ù¾±²Ô´Ç²ú²¹°ùó³¾±ð³Ù°ù´Ç has conducted over 20,000 interviews across 18 Latin Â鶹´«Ã½ countries.

Explore data from two waves of representative public opinion surveys (2006-08; 2010-11) across 10 Arab countries. Phase II includes surveys in the wake of the "Arab Spring."

Public opinion studies from 13 East Asian states and 5 South Asian countries.

21 years of polls across more than 100 countries!

Focusing on human beliefs and values, the WVS conducts representative surveys in over 90 countries.

Data from national and international public opinion polls since 1935.

List and locations of NGOs in 170 countries.

Country-specific directories of development organizations.

Formerly the NGO Sustainability Index, the index tracks the viability of CSO sectors by country and over time through 2016.

This index tracks the viability of CSO sectors by country through 2016.

The EIU's Laza Kekic ranks the nations of the world by democratic political characteristics in this 2007 report.

The ranking of record for political freedoms, published since 1972 by the Washington, DC-based nonprofit Freedom House.

Annual ranking of 186 countries by the strength of ten economic freedoms, published since 1994 by the Wall Street Journal and the conservative Heritage Foundation.

Data on the incidence of democratic and autocratic types of political authority spanning 1800-2013, from the Vienna, VA-based Center for Systemic Peace.

Dataset from the London-based Mo Ibrahim Foundation, tracking variables related to security, the rule of law, political pluralism, and economic opportunity from 2000-present.

A dataset tracking government corruption in 175 countries from 2000-present, from the Berlin-based NGO Transparency International.

World Bank data on political pluralism and accountability, quality of governance, the rule of law, and related variables for 215 countries spanning 1996-2013.

Data measuring respect for human rights in 202 countries spanning 1981-2011, compiled by current and former faculty members at SUNY-Binghamton.

Data from the International Parliamentary Union on the taxonomies of 265 parliamentary bodies across the 189 countries that possess a national legislature.

Links to a variety of databases on electoral systems and voter behavior, sponsored by the Sweden-based International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance.

Descriptive statistics on national political institutions spanning 1975-2015, published by the World Bank.

Data on security, the rule of law, human rights and freedoms, and economic opportunity in African nations, from a 2009 study by Robert I. Rotberg and Rachel M. Gisselquist.

This site from Carleton University has links to a wide variety of data sources, as well as some compiled data from the University itself. Linked sources include

Detailed election results from over 90 countries, compiled by David Lublin of Â鶹´«Ã½. (Still updated, but eventually to be superseded by the Constituency-Level Elections Archive.)

A collection of 50 indicators of vulnerability to future environmental shocks, jointly sponsored by the Secretariat of the Pacific Community and the United Nations Environment Programme.

A portal to 190 datasets on topics including conservation, land use, water, population, and other environmental topics, jointly sponsored by NASA and Columbia University.

Measures of human impact on ecology from an Oakland, CA-based political advocacy group.

Maps and data from a Washington, DC-based political advocacy group.

Data on energy use in the People's Republic of China spanning 1949-2011, published by the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

A September 2013 paper from the German Institute of Global and Area Studies, providing "an annotated overview of datasets in the study of institutions and conflict in divided societies."

Data on 284 politically active ethnic groups spanning 1945-present, from the Center for International Development and Conflict Management at the University of Maryland.

An interactive map of armed conflict from Sweden's Uppsala University, spanning 1975-present; click on "Datasets" to view associated files.

Open-source data on acts of terrorism spanning 1970-present, from the Department of Homeland Security's START program at the University of Maryland.

Data on war, terrorism, coups d'etat, state fragility, major crime, and more, from the Vienna, VA-based Center for Systemic Peace.

Replication files from studies carried out by staff members at the Peace Research Institute Oslo, a Norwegian think tank.

University of Texas database tracking violence in Africa, spanning 1997-present and including weekly updates on 30 "high-risk" countries.

This site from Carleton University has links to a wide variety of data sources, as well as some compiled data from the University itself.

A Swiss-based member agency of the Norwegian Refugee Council, the IDMC publishes estimates of populations displaced by both conflict and natural disaster.

Data from the United Nations on member-state contributions to peacekeeping missions, fatalities, and more.

Data on natural and man-made disasters from the Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters at the Universite Catholique de Louvain. Also see of publications related to the database.

Refugee data from the United Nations at the country, region, and global levels.

Archive of the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, which published the Survey annually until 2009.

Data and graphs on US and international trends in migration and remittances from a Washington, DC-based think tank.

The US Government's annual report on human trafficking, including back issues to 2001.

Annual reports of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, including back issues to 1980. Also see the Office's archive of .

List of migration data websites from the UN's inter-agency Global Migration Group.

Data on the costs of sending remittances from 16 major sending countries to 28 African receiving countries.

A wide-ranging collection of international-affairs databases, covering topics ranging from military expenditures to human freedom to disease outbreaks, and backed by an international consortium of governments and NGOs.

The UN's annual report on the global production, trafficking, and consumption of illegal or restricted drugs, including opiates, cocaine, cannabis, and amphetamines.

Defense spending, force size, and force composition measurements on 27 European Union member states, published by the European Defence Agency.

The DC-based nonprofit MIX promotes financial services for the poor.

A free portal to official data on US tariffs and international trade, spanning 1989-present.

Annual and quarterly trade data from the International Trade Administration, US Department of Commerce.

The Geneva-based nonprofit, best known for its annual meeting in Davos, partners government and private-sector leaders to promote economic growth "in the spirit of global citizenship."

Annual reports from Canada's Fraser Institute on the "Economic Freedom of the World," tracking 42 indicators in 141 nations.

Annual reports spanning 1989-present, covering trends in foreign direct investment. Also publishes topical analyses and fact sheets on individual countries.

Handy table displaying each country's Gini coefficient, a measure of income inequality.

A large panel dataset of national economic indicators spanning 1950-2011 and covering 167 countries.

A repository of labor statistics from the UN's International Labour Organization, including country profiles and an Excel plugin for easier manipulation. Supersedes the LABORSTA database.

The longest-running annual statistical record of world energy production and consumption, published by BP (olim British Petroleum, olim the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company) since 1952.

Time-series and cross sectional data relating to food and agriculture for some 200 countries.

Primary source of economic information and research in the U.S. Department of Agriculture

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) seeks sustainable solutions for ending hunger and poverty.

Explore data from the United Nations Human Development Report.

DEVECONDATA Blog with data suggestions for development economics

United Nations information on HIV/AIDS

Search the CDC data.

Population Reference Bureau Data finder(population, education, economy, environment, health, HIV/AIDS, reproductive health

International information on labor

The DHS Program has earned a worldwide reputation for collecting and disseminating accurate, nationally representative data on fertility, family planning, maternal and child health, gender, HIV/AIDS, malaria, and nutrition.

The core mission of the Telecommunication Development Sector (ITU-D) shall be to foster international cooperation and solidarity in the delivery of technical assistance and in the creation, development and improvement of telecommunication/ICT equipment and networks in developing countries.

Reporters without Borders monitors attacks on freedom of information worldwide

Data on the conditions for independent media in 80 countries across the world.

Information on journalism education programs around the world.

Freedom House is an independent watchdog organization dedicated to the expansion of freedom around the world.

SIGI is a composite indicator of gender inequality for about 100 countries around the world

"The most comprehensive compilation of information on the status of women in the world"

Cross national data on violence against women (2012)

EGI monitors gender equality and women's empowerment in the environmental arena

Search for "fractionalization" on page

Data on education, culture, science, communication (exports of cultural goods, linguistic diversity on the internet)

Article on Globalization

The KOF Index of Globalization measures the three main dimensions of globalization: Economic, Social, and Political

Census and Trend Data going back to 2000, 1990, 1980, and sometimes even further, on a growing list of topics, including population growth, population by race, age structure, family structure, and income.

Statistical Abstract of the United States

Charity Navigator has become the nation's largest and most-utilized evaluator of charities.

Atlas of US Presidential Elections

US Human Development Index by state, district, and more.

The National Health Interview Survey is a survey collecting information on the health, health care access, and health behaviors of the civilian, non-institutionalized U.S. population, with digital data files available from 1963 to present. IPUMS Health Surveys harmonizes these data and allows users to create custom NHIS data extracts for analysis.

IPEDSthe primary source for data on colleges, universities, and technical and vocational postsecondary institutions in the U.S.

Data for over 74,000 U.S. cities

estimate the number of African-born doctors and professional nurses working abroad in developed countries.

Provides access to information on all of its lending projects from 1967 up to now. Based on the IATI data, the dataset includes basic information such as the project title and ID, country, sector, task manager but also, financial information, results and links to publicly disclosed documents.

The surveys were designed to solicit political, sociological, and economic information from people living in Japan.

Focuses on the development of society and economy.

Detailed British election results.

There is a large volume of data generated through various socio-economic surveys and censuses.

Information on demography, economic activity, literacy, education, housing, fertility and more.

Diverse Indicators Relating India

Survey and assessment of forest resources in the country

Estimates of the population sizes of the world's largest cities.

Estimates and projections of the urban and rural populations of all countries in the world and of their major urban agglomerations.

Find estimates of the size of cities and empires back to the Bronze Age.

State Dept list of yearly UN voting patterns compared with the U.S.