Research Guides: Anthropology: Statistics

International Statistics

Human Development Report (United Nations)

Contains data and reports on various regions or countries. *Hint: When searching for various reports on regions or countries, leave the first category set to All Years and then browse the results. You can also view reports by various themes.

International Data (U.S. Census Bureau)
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
UNESCO's (United Nations Educational, Scientific & Cultural Organization) portal to statistics for countries around the world, by theme or country
UN Data (United Nations)
World Health Organization (WHO): Country Information
World Bank (data)
Gapminder
Swedish foundation that "identifies systematic misconceptions about important global trends and proportions and uses reliable data to develop easy to understand teaching materials to rid people of their misconceptions."

Statistics - National

Statistical Abstract of the United States
Summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Offers individually indexed tables (with attached spreadsheets), both searchable and browsable.
Historical Statistics of the United States
Thematic essays and data sets on population, economics, labor, government, crime, etc., from Colonial times up to to 2000. You may download the data into Excel as well as dynamically create graphs.

Data.gov
The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government. Data.gov increases the ability of the public to easily find, download, and use datasets that are generated and held by the Federal Government. Data.gov provides descriptions of the Federal datasets (metadata), information about how to access the datasets, and tools that leverage government datasets.

SAGE Data
Formerly called Sage Stats. Collection of data measures spanning all U.S. states, counties, cities, metropolitan areas, and zip codes. Data goes back more than 20 years. Covers the economy, education, crime, government finance, health, population, religion, social welfare, and transportation.

County & City Databook (2007) -- click link Data Books
Demographic and vital statistics; employment, education, government, housing, production and weather data for states, counties, and all cities of 25,000+