Research Guides: Development Economics: Statistics/Data

How to Find and Work with Data Guide

Working with Data Guide
Williams Libraries' guide to finding and working with data. Includes a broad collection of data sources.

A Note About U.S. Government Data and Information

As they work to comply with recent executive orders, some federal agencies have modified or removed access to federally funded data.

Many organizations are working together to archive critical research data. The document below from compiles current data rescue efforts and resources.

Federal Data Resources
A collection of federal data and information archiving efforts compiled by Research Services.

Library databases for Statistics

International Financial Statistics
Publication Dates: 1948-Present
Provides financial and economic data as reported to the International Monetary Fund.
Statista
Integrates statistical data from over 80,000 topics from over 20,000 sources, including market reports, trade publications, scientific journals, and government databases. Datasets cover 170 industries and over 150 countries. The reports, charts, infographics, and statistics found in the database can be viewed online or downloaded.

SourceOECD Data Warehouse
OECD database to search for and extract records across OECD's statistical resources.

Open Statistics and Data

Statistical Resources

World Development Indicators
The primary World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially-recognized international sources. It presents the most current and accurate global development data available, and includes national, regional and global estimates

Datasets

UK Data Service
The UK Data Service provides access to over 7,000 digital data collections for research and teaching purposes covering an extensive range of key economic and social data, both quantitative and qualitative, and spanning many disciplines and themes. Note: you will need to request a username. Only open data sets are generally available outside the UK.
World Bank Open Data
Open data available from the World Bank.
OECD Open Government Data
Open Government Data (OGD) is a philosophy- and increasingly a set of policies - that promotes transparency, accountability and value creation by making government data available to all. Public bodies produce and commission huge quantities of data and information. By making their datasets available, public institutions become more transparent and accountable to citizens. By encouraging the use, reuse and free distribution of datasets, governments promote business creation and innovative, citizen-centric services.

Open Statistics/Open Data Directories

The Economics Network Data Set Directory
A directory of Open Access datasets from the UK's Economic Network.
US Open Data
Home of the U.S. Government’s open data.