Analysis of political and economic trends and background. Includes CityData, Country Data, Country Profiles, Country Reports, Global Forecasting Service and Topics.

Economic data by country and sector

Latinobarómetro is an annual public opinion survey that involves some 19,000 interviews in 18 Latin American countries, representing more than 400 million inhabitants. This database allows for downloading of data from the surveys, beginning with 1995, for offline analysis using statistical software, or for online data analysis.

The data base contains statistical series for a wide range of economic and social indicators covering twenty countries in the region for the twentieth century and beyond. Its purpose is to provide economic and social historians worldwide with a systematic collection of available statistical information in a single on-line source.

Database of abstracts of published books, journal articles, working papers, and other materials on population topics.

Tool that replicates the calculations made by the World Bank's researchers in estimating the extent of absolute poverty in the world. Povcal allows you to calculate the poverty measures under different assumptions and to assemble the estimates using alternative country groupings or for any set of individual countries of you're choosing.

SEDLAC allows users to monitor the trends in poverty and other distributional and social indicators in the region. The dataset is available in the form of brief reports, charts and electronic Excel tables with information for each country/year. In addition, the website offers dynamic searches online.

Annual compilation of economic and social development in Latin America and the Caribbean, including population and demographic characteristics, employment and occupational structure, poverty, consumption and nutrition, health, education, housing, national accounts, domestic prices, financing and external indebtedness, external trade, balance of payments, natural resources and production of goods, and infrastructure services.

Provides selected statistical series for all countries and areas and selected series from more specialized international data sources. Information provided on data sources, definitions and classifications.

Database of statistics from the World Bank.

The United Nations public health arm. Monitors disease outbreaks, assesses the performance of health systems around the globe.