Guides: Business Information Resources for Faculty: Sources of Country Information

Databases for Country Information

FAOSTAT This link opens in a new window
An online, multilingual database provides access to over 3 million time-series and cross sectional data relating to food and agriculture. It also contains data for 200 countries and more than 200 primary products and inputs, just in its core.

Global Development Finance
GDF online provides direct access to more than 200 debt and financial flows indicators for the 135 countries that report public and publicly-guaranteed debt to the World Bank Debtor Reporting System. These data run from 1970 to 2014, where available.
Global Road Warrior
Provides international travelers with information on: international telephone instructions, cellular (mobile) phones, electricity, and satelline connectivity while traveling abroad. Includes country profiles, cultural information, demographics, money, points of interest, transportation, maps, and photos of most of the world's countries.
International Strategic Analysis
International Strategic Analysis reports provide country intelligence, economic forecasting and international market analysis for over 180 countries and 8 regions. Resources include ISA Country Reports, ISA Risk Analysis and ISA Global Update newsletter along with economic forecasts and regional reports.
Mergent online
Country profiles are available through Mergent online. The pulled-down menu in the lower right allows for easy selection of country of interest.

Passport GMID This link opens in a new window
Containing millions of demographic, economic, and marketing statistics for countries worldwide.

Austrade
CIA - The World Factbook
The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.
Gapminder
Gapminder is a web-service displaying time series of development statistics for all countries in the form of enjoyable and interactive graphs.
GeoHive
GeoHIve provides population data for regions, countries and cities along with economic factors and statistics on natural phenomena.

International Monetary Fund This link opens in a new window
Access to the IMF's country information, data and statistics.

Logistics World
Look at the top of the page for the "Tools" link. This will take users to the Reference Library page. Once on this page, select NAICS and SIC codes. Here you can browse by category, search by code or keyword or use the conversion tool to move between NAICS and SIC codes.