General Economic Data
See also the resources on my companion page for the ISA Compendium's "Review of Available Data Sets" article, which may have been updated more recently than some of the resources on this page.
My International Political Economy and International Organizations pages may also provide relevant information or data.
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: Varies by series (some as far back as 1980)
- Variables Included:
Historical Commodity Prices (from IndexMundi; separate graphs and data are selectable for numerous commodities from the left side of the screen.)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: Up to 25 years of time series
- Variables Included:
World Tourism Organization data (from the UN data browser; see also the UNWTO's Facts and Figures and Tourism Indicators pages.)
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International Telecommunication Union data (including telephone, cellular mobile phone, computer, and Internet access; see also the ITU data page.)
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- Variables Included:
Economic Capabilities
My International Political Economy and International Organizations pages may also provide relevant information or data.
Penn World Tables (from Heston, Summers, and Aten; the leading resource for cross-national economic time series data)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: Global (188 countries), currently 1950-2004
- Variables Included: Population, Real GDP per capita in constant dollars, Real GDP per capita (Laspeyres index), Consumption share of GDP %, Investment share of GDP %, Government share of GDP %, Real GDP per capita in constant dollars adjusted for changes in the terms of trade, Real GDP per capita (current international prices), Real Consumption share of GDP, Investment share of GDP (current international prices), Government share of GDP (current international prices), Price level GDP % (PPP GDP), Exchange rate relative to U.S.), Price level Consumption % ([PPP of C]/XR), Price level Investment % ([PPP of I]/XR), Price level Government % ([PPP of G]/XR), Exchange Rate, Real GDP per Equivalent Adult, Real GDP per Worker (1985 international prices), Capital Stock per Worker (1985 international prices), Producer Durables (% of KapW), Nonresidential construction (% of KapW), Other Construction (% of KapW), Residential construction, Transportation Equipment, Openness (Exports+Imports), CGDP, Real Gross National Product, Gross Domestic Private Investment, Standard of Living Index
National Accounts-Official Country Data and National Accounts-Estimates of Main Aggregates (from the UN data browser)
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Industrial Commodity Statistics (from the UN data browser; see also the UNSD Industrial Statistics site and Industrial Commodity Statistics Yearbook)
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- Variables Included:
IADB GlobalLink (for the Western Hemisphere; over 500 economic, financial, political, and social indicators)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain:
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Macroeconomic Factors and Growth Data (from Stan Fischer)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: 1961-1988
- Variables Included: Growth rate of total GDP, Capital stock growth rate, Labor force growth rate, Growth rate of total human capital, Average years of educational attainment of the labor force, Solow productivity residual, Average Barro-Lee human capital stock, Inflation rate, Inflation uncertainty, Budget surplus/deficit, Average ratio of liquid liabilities to GDP, Rate of change of terms of trade, Average openness
Data on Physical Capital Stock (from Nehru and Dhareshwar)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain:
- Variables Included: Total physical capital; GDP at market prices; Human capital stock: mean years of primary education, mean years of secondary education, mean years of tertiary education, total mean years education; Gross domestic fixed investment (GDFI); GDFI in producers durables (share of total GDFI); Potential GDP series; Total mid-year population; Population between ages 15 and 64
Economic Productivity Data (from Bartelsman and Gray)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: (list forthcoming)
- Variables Included: (list forthcoming)
Political Instability and Economic Growth Data (from Alesina, Ozler, Roubini, and Swagel)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: 119 countries, 1950-1982
- Variables Included: Anti-government demonstrations Number of assassinations, Black market premium, Major Cabinet Changes, Genocide, Major Constitutional Changes, Coups d'Etat, Ethnolinguistic fractionalization, Major Government Crises ,Growth rate of real per capita GDP, Institutions, Financial Depth, Log of Schooling, Log of Telephones per worker, Purges, Revolutions, Riots Fiscal Surplus/GDP, War on national territory , Civil war, Neighbors', Average Growth, Years independent, Racial tension 1984, Minorities at Risk 1990, BERI average 1970-79, BERI average 1980-89, Knack and Keefer corruption 1980-89, Mauro corruption 1980-83, Population not speaking language, Separatist movements 1960, Separatist movements 1975
Saving and Investment Data (from Jones and Obstfeld's paper "Saving, Investment, and Gold: A Reassessment of Historical Current Account Data")
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Norway, Russia, Sweden, UK, and USA (temporal coverage varies by country, ranging from 1861-1945)
- Variables Included: All Countries: GDP, capital formation, changes in stocks/inventories, current account data (from historical sources), nongold current account, net shipments or exports of gold, change in monetary gold stock, national accounts information, gold flows and monetary stock, and notes on data sources. Note: Australia and the USA include several additional variables.
Trade and Aid
My International Political Economy and International Organizations pages may also provide relevant information or data.
COW Trade Data (from Barbieri, Keshk, and Pollins)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: COW interstate system members, 1870-2006
- Variables Included: nation-level: year, COW country code, total trade (imports + exports); dyad-level: year, country codes, sum of dyadic trade (A imports from B + B imports from A)
Kristian Gleditsch's Expanded International Trade and GDP Data
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: Trade flows: 1948-2000, GDP: 1950-2000
- Variables Included:
UN Commodity Trade Statistics (from the UN data browser; see also the UN ComTrade database)
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- Variables Included:
World Bank Global Development Finance data (data on debt, investment, and transfers; available through the UN data browser)
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Net Aid Transfers data set (1960-2006) (by David Roodman; from the Center for Global Development web site)
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- Variables Included:
Aid, Policies, and Growth data from William Easterly, Ross Levine and David Roodman and Anarchy of Numbers data from David Roodman (several data sets used to investigate the relationship between foreign aid and economic growth/development, from the Center for Global Development web site)
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- Variables Included:
Trade Agreements Database (from Robert Pahre at Illinois)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain:
- Variables Included:
Trade Openness Data (from Jeffrey Sachs and Andrew Warner, at Harvard's Center for International Development data archive; an Excel spreadsheet indicating whether or not each country is considered to have trade openness in each year)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: all countries, 1950-1992
- Variables Included: GDP, trade openness (note that both of these variables are missing for many country-years, particularly in the 1950s and early 1960s)
Trade-Related Data (from economist Jon Haveman at Purdue)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: (unclear)
- Variables Included: (varies by data set)
Development
My International Social Data, International Political Economy and International Organizations pages may also provide relevant information or data.
World Development Indicators (from the World Bank; see also WDI data through the UN data browser as well as the World Bank's Quick Reference Tables and Quick Query interface with access to the data)
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- Variables Included:
OECD Development Aid data (from their Query Wizard for International Development Statistics, or QWIDS; see also an alternative interface)
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- Variables Included:
World Development Reports (from the World Bank; includes data tables on size of the economy, quality of life, population and labor force, poverty, distribution of income / consumption, education, health, land use and agricultural productivity, water use, deforestation, and protected areas, energy use and emissions, economic growth, structure of output, structure of demand, central government finances, balance of payments / current account / international reserves, private sector finance, role of government in the economy, power and transportation, communications / information / science and technology, global trade, and aid / financial flows. See also their Data by Topic.)
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Human Development Indicators (from the UNDP's Human Development Report Office; includes a wide variety of economic and demographic indicators for both developed and developing countries. See also a discussion of the Human Development Index (HDI), Human Poverty Index (HPI), Gender-related Development Index (GDI), and Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM), all of which are included here. Additional data may be available in earlier Human Development Reports on the same web site.)
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- Variables Included:
OECD Statistics search interface (an interface to access a variety of social, economic, and environmental data from the OECD; see also their Frequently Requested Statistics and Index of Statistical Variables.)
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- Variables Included:
Joint External Debt Hub (JEDH) (a joint undertaking by the BIS, IMF, OECD, and World Bank to compile external debt statistics; includes bank loans, debt securities, Brady bonds, trade credits, bilateral loans, multilateral claims, international reserve assets, and summary statistics)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain:
- Variables Included:
UNICEF Statistical Tables, Statistics by Area, and Statistics by Country (data drawing from UNICEF's annual The State of the World's Children and Progress for Children volumes.)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: Most countries, current
- Variables Included:
Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers
My International Political Economy, International Conflict, and International Security pages may also provide relevant information or data.
SIPRI's Arms Transfer database (see also their arms production data)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain:
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SIPRI's Military Expenditure database
- Spatial-Temporal Domain:
- Variables Included:
League of Nations Statistical Yearbook - Statistical and disarmament documents (from the Northwestern University library. This is an attempt to digitize League of Nations documents,and currently covers most of the history of the yearbook.)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain:
- Variables Included:
Regional Economic Data
My International Political Economy and International Organizations pages may also provide relevant information or data.
Statistics in Latin America (from LANIC at the University of Texas; links to databases with a variety of economic, political, and social data about individual Latin American countries or the entire region)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: (varies)
- Variables Included: (varies)
Soviet Economic Decline data set (from Easterly and Fischer)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: USSR, 1928-1987; Soviet republics, 1970-1990
- Variables Included: GNP Western estimates, Capital stock-industry (official numbers), Capital stock-industry (Western estimates), Capital stock-Khanin, Capital stock-material sectors (official), Capital stock-whole economy, Labor force-industrial sector, Labor force-material sectors, Labor force-whole economy (western estimates), NMP-industrial sector (official), Value added-industrial sector (Western estimates), NMP-Khanin, NMP-official
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