Country Information: Internet Resources

(Library of Congress) presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world.

(Dept. of State) Brief overviews covering geography, people, history, government, economy, political conditions, defense, relations with the US, and travel and business

CIA website

Links to international documents, and also to documents in countries world wide. Some are in the native language.

Provides links to background information, US embassies and consulates, and foreign embassies in the US, and chiefs of state of foreign countries.

Gateway to information on development issues, providing free and easy access to wide range of high quality online resources.

UN Library

Political and economic country profiles and news. Baylor Libraries has a subscription to the country profiles, which can be accessed by doing a keyword search in BearCat for "Economist Intelligence Unit" AND "country's name" (e.g. "Economist Intelligence Unit AND South Korea").

Serving the diplomatic community and the online community since 1996, EmbassyWorld is designed to provide a comprehensive list of contact resources for all of the world's diplomatic offices.

Covers areas in the field of international relations and security, such as armed conflicts and peace keeping, arms production and trade, military expenditure, armed forces and conventional weapons holding and nuclear weapons.

via Northwestern University

Gapminder is a web-service displaying time series of development statistics for all countries in the form of enjoyable and interactive graphs.

More than just facts and figures about each country's geography, demographics, economy, government and political system, this website also offers some vital historical, cultural and political background info.

(Library of Congress) International collections

Comprehensive database of governmental institutions on the World Wide Web.

from the UN

(US census bureau) Data bank containing statistical tables of demographic, and socio-economic data for 227 countries and areas of the world.

via Northwestern University

The Center for International Business and Travel

Provides a central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations. Compiles data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD. You can generate maps and graphs on all kinds of statistics.

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

Economic, Environmental and Social Statistics

Newspapers from all over the world

(Georgetown University) A comprehensive source of documentary and statistical political information on Latin America

List of Rulers/Heads of State of Countries, current and historical

UNICEF

(CIA) provides national-level information on countries, territories, and dependencies.

Life expectancy average by country

over 1100 annotated links in a range of international affairs topics.

Currency converter