Research Guides : Data Resources and Statistics for Legal Research: Foreign and International Datasets

Reports

International Debt Statistics - 2017 by The World Bank Focuses on financial flows, trends in external debt, and other major financial indicators for developing and advanced economies (data from Quarterly External Debt Statistics and Quarterly Public Sector Debt databases). Includes over 200 time series indicators from 1970 to 2015, for most reporting countries, and pipeline data for scheduled debt service payments on existing commitments to 2023.
World Development Indicators - 2016 by World Bank With over 1 million downloads last year, WDI is the most widely used dataset in our Open Data Catalog and it provides high-quality cross-country comparable statistics about development and people’s lives around the globe. You can: Download the full publication (PDF: 7Mb) & highlights featuring the SDGs (PDF: 6Mb) Download or query the database Access the statistical tables Browse the full list of WDI products WDI now includes 1,400 indicators for over 200 economies. While we update the WDI database quarterly and make historical versions available, this annual release of a new edition is an opportunity to review the trends we’re seeing in global development and discuss updates we’ve made to our data and methods.
ILO Data Initiative on child labour and forced labour by ILO The ILO set up a Technical Working Group involving a number of different UN agencies and statistical experts to develop draft guidelines and recommendations for the required indicators for the standardised measurement of forced labour. A preparatory meeting, held in Geneva in April 2015, launched the work of the Technical Working Group. It focused on taking stock of all existing initiatives and methodologies used to measure forced labour, and discussed the challenges faced and ways forward regarding the development of international standards for the measurement of forced labour. Recommendations from this Preparatory Meeting included; a proposal to study the cost and benefits of developing short and quick surveys for measuring prevalence while keeping longer in-depth surveys when measuring the nature and characteristics of forced labour in a given context; and a proposal to have the technical working group address each of the specific forms of forced labour. The Technical Working Group will have discussed the following 8 topics over the 16 month period from September 2015 through December 2016.
Trafficking in Persons Report - 2016 The TIP Report is the product of a yearlong effort requiring contributions and follow-up from employees in the United States and at our diplomatic outposts across the globe, host country governments, and civil society. That effort is well worth it, because this Report is one of the best means we have to speak up for men, women, and children who lack any effective platform to be heard themselves. Because of its credibility, the Report is also a source of validation and inspiration to activists on every continent who are striving to end the scourge of human trafficking.

Foreign and International Datasets

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project ACLED (Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project) is the most comprehensive public collection of political violence and protest data for developing states. This data and analysis project produces information on the specific dates and locations of political violence and protest, the types of event, the groups involved, fatalities, and changes in territorial control.
Correlates of War Project COW seeks to facilitate the collection, dissemination, and use of accurate and reliable quantitative data in international relations.
ICOW - Project description Includes current datasets

Worldwide Governance Indicators
Quality of Government Institute
Nations, Development, and Democracy, 1800-2005 To serve the scholarly community's growing interest in the process of democratization in the world over the past 200 years, this data collection consists of a compiled database that assesses 187 (20 historical and 167 contemporary) sovereign countries from 1800-2005.

How to interpret the statistics
Statistics - Rating Activity ESMA has set up a central repository (CEREP) for publishing the rating activity statistics and rating performance statistics of credit rating agencies.
European Data Portal The European Data Portal harvests the metadata of Public Sector Information available on public data portals across European countries. Information regarding the provision of data and the benefits of re-using data is also included.

Your Key to European Statistics

Human Trafficking Research Guide: Statistics This guide focuses mainly on the specific sources of information that inform the study of the human trafficking law and policy.

Global Data

OECD Data

UN Comtrade Database Free access to detailed global trade data. Also includes data visualizations.
UN Data
Energy Statistics The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) is cooperating with six international/regional organizations – APEC, Eurostat, IEA, IEF, OLADE and OPEC – in the Joint Organisations Data Initiative (JODI) which consists of a monthly data collection of selected oil statistics through the JODI Oil Questionnaire and selected monthly statistics on natural gas through the JODI Gas Questionnaire.
National Accounts Main Aggregates Database - Introduction The National Accounts Main Aggregates Database presents a series of analytical national accounts tables from 1970 onwards for more than 200 countries and areas of the world.
Population Datasets

World DataBank DataBank is an analysis and visualisation tool that contains collections of time series data on a variety of topics
World Bank Open Data Free and open access to global development data
Data and Statistics - Trade and International Integration The Trade and International Integration team of the World Bank's Development Research Group collects and disseminates data to support its own research activities and the global trade policy agenda
Datasets - Agriculture and Rural Development
Datasets - Environment and Energy
Datasets - Finance and Private Sector Development
Datasets - Macroeconomics and Growth
Datasets - Research
Development Research Microdata

Trade and Tariff Data he WTO provides quantitative information in relation to economic and trade policy issues. Its data-bases and publications provide access to data on trade flows, tariffs, non-tariff measures (NTMs) and trade in value added.
Time Series - International trade in merchandise and commercial services This site provides a searchable database on international trade in merchandise and commercial services. The data are presented according to the product definitions and regional groupings specified in the technical notes.
Trade and tariff data The WTO provides quantitative information in relation to economic and trade policy issues. Its data-bases and publications provide access to data on trade flows, tariffs, non-tariff measures (NTMs) and trade in value added.
Updated dataset on the content of PTAs An updated dataset on the content of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) was published by the WTO in April 2013.
Statistical Data Sets, 1948-2015 WTO statistical data sets: Total merchandise trade, Merchandise trade by commodity, Network of world merchandise trade, Selected regional integration agreements, Trade in commercial services, Merchandise trade indices.

Software for Poverty Mapping

PovMap 2.0 provides computational solutions to all stages of poverty mapping activities. It uses a proprietary data engine to ensure the speedy processing of census data.
Current version V2.0 downloads