Nationmaster

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Nationmaster NationMaster includes statistical information from the World Bank, various United Nations entities, OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), World Trade Organization, and so on. Select a category from the pull-down menu—anything from Crime to Industry to Sports. Once you have chosen a category, a subject-specific subcategory menu appears, from which you pick a specific topic. For example, subcategories for Health include percentage of infants immunized against measles, number of acute care beds, and obesity in men. NationMaster allows you to view the compiled statistics in bar graphs, pie charts, and maps. There are often even cross-tabs showing correlations between two sets of statistics, such as the inverse relationship between the number of McDonalds restaurants per capita and the number of couples with children. The source(s) for each graph is clearly indicated, and each category is defined in non-technical terms. For example, the definition for "total crime victims" is: "People victimized by crime (as a % of the total population). Data refer to people victimized by one or more of 11 crimes recorded in the survey: robbery, burglary, attempted burglary, car theft, car vandalism, bicycle theft, sexual assault, theft from car, theft of personal property, assault and threats."

UN data This website "brings [United Nations] UN statistical databases within easy reach of users through a single entry point ... Users can search and download a variety of statistical resources of the UN system." Search across all databases, or use advanced search to select specific sources, years, and regions of the world. Includes a glossary. From the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA).