Full profiles provide an instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries and territories, and background on key institutions. They also include audio and video clips from BBC archives.

Provides one 5-year historical and one 5-year projection summary for the country's macroeconomic, energy, metals and agriculture sectors and analyses the country's macroeconomic conditions and forecast.

Database presents a global outlook with daily insights spanning politics, economics and market-moving topics including macroeconomic data on forecasts, as well as historic trends, including: country forecasts, political and economic landscapes, major economies and industry and commodity analysis for major industries, including supply, demand and prices of critical goods. Data is downloadable.

ELLA is a knowledge sharing and learning platform, funded by the UK Department for International Development. It aims to share knowledge of recent Latin American experiences on selected economic, environmental and governance issues. It supports learning between Latin American, African and South Asian countries, and is providing a networking platform for organizations and individuals to link to Latin America. As a content partner with Eldis, the full selection of Briefs from Ella are available to download.

The Country Studies Series 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.

Offers political and economic risk analysis for 106 countries. Each Country Report focuses on vital political and business information: finding developing markets, determining current movements, preparing for capital investments, or making judgments about corporate security. Each Country Report follows a standard format. Adobe Acrobat software is required to view Country Reports.

Country statistics and background.

The Food and Agriculture Organization for the United Nations and its 183 members highlight information as one of the priority areas in fighting hunger and achieving food security. The FAO Country Profiles and Mapping Information System is a pioneering information retrieval tool which groups the organizations' vast archive of information on its global activities in agriculture and development in a single area and catalogs it by country.