Best websites for Economic Data
The internet is full of economic data, if you know where to look for it. Below are links to some of the best sources of economic data published by various websites. You can get macro and micro datasets to use in economics and finance research. Much of the data listed below is free and can be very useful for research and empirical work.
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The Office for statistics at the University of Auckland provides excellent links to data either by region, country or subject. All in all it links to a huge range of resources including international organizations, central banks, statistical offices and finance ministries.
58) fsi.imf.org The Financial Soundness Indicators are devised by the IMF with the aim of supporting macro prudential analysis and assessing strengths and vulnerabilities of financial systems.. A range of statistics are available to look at the overall soundness of a country's financial system. 59) macmap.org Market Access Map provides information about customs tariffs applied by 191 countries and faced by 239 countries. It also covers tariff rates, quotas, trade remedies, rules and certificates of origin, bound tariffs of WTO members, non-tariff measures and trade flows. 60) stats.oecd.org/oecdfactbook The OECD factbook is a great way to represent country data in graphs. You can rank all OECD countries by a given variable such as GDP, population, exports and so on for a given year. It generates excellent charts. 61) Inflation.eu If you want to get the rate of inflation for a particular economy then this website probably has it. You can also plot graphs of the inflation rate. 62) Quandl.com This is a great resource for students and researchers. Once you sign in there is access to over 9 million economic, financial and social datasets. You can see a variety of sources where the data may exist and download and graph the data. A superb resource. 63) Nber.org/data The National Bureau of Economics Research has links to many datasets. Includes macro data, industry productivity and digitization data, international trade data, hospital data, demographic data, patent/ scientific and other data. 64) Bankofengland.co.uk/sid The Bank of England provides an excellent statistical interactive database. There is a huge amount of useful financial, economic and banking data. The data covers both UK and foreign countries. The A to Z index is particularly helpful. 65) Conference-board.org/data The Conference Board provides some very timely economic data on the business cycle, labor demand and trends. It also publishes several barometers of consumer and business confidence, including the widely quoted Consumer Confidence Index and the Leading Economic Indicators. 66) wto.org/tariffprofiles This link give the world trade organization annual compilation of bound and applied tariffs. The data is prepared annually by the WTO, ITC and UNCTAD. 67) doingbusiness.org The World Bank's doing business website is a great way to find out how easy it is to set up and run a business in various countries. Each country is given a global rank. Each country is given a rank under each of 10 criteria. 68) intracen.org/trade-statistics The International Trade Center collects masses of useful trade statistics and also details of the products which each country exports and imports. 69) Geohive.com The Geohive website is full of statistics on things like population, global economic data such as GDP per capital, agricultural production and energy production and consumption. There are also useful links to where to find relevant country data. 70) econ.worldbank.org/Trade-Integration The World bank trade and integration statistics cover trade policy, trade in services, international migration, labor and poverty, trade costs and facilitation and technology and productivity. 71) worldcompetitiveness.imd.org The IMG is a superb resource for analysing the competitiveness of a country countries are ranked by economic performances, government efficiency, business efficiency and infrastructure as well as overall. 72) CountryEconomy.com A website that has easy-to-use tools for comparing macroeconomic and financial data of different countries such as inflation, fiscal deficits, unemployment rates, bond yields, stocks and even minimum wage levels. 73) Flowingdata.com Flowing Data explores how designers, statisticians, and computer scientists are using and presenting data in a very visual fashion. The sites shows very interesting data and how it can be shown in a lively and innovative fashion. 74) MeasuringWorth.com This website has some useful long term historical statistics on variables such as GDP, wages, consumer price indices, earnings, exchange rates and the prices of gold. There is a useful calculator letting you input the precise years you are interested in. 74) World Health Organization/Statistics WHO's annual World Health Statistics reports present the most recent health statistics for the WHO Member States. Data is downloadable in Excel. 75) World Bank/ Development Stats If you are looking for historical datasets on economic growth then the World Bank maintains a set of useful historical statistics. 76) WorldBank.org/WDI This links to the entire World Development Indicators database spreadsheet. It has a great range of indicators for 216 different economies. A great resource for students and lecturers alike. 77) data.worldbank.org/country Via this link you can download the World Development indicators database by Country. 78) Multpl.com This website has data on various financial rations for the S&P 500 such as price to earnings, price to book. There is also World Economic Stats and various macro data sets on important economies such as the US, China and so on. 79) Ceicdata.com Compare Economic Data provides data on some 120 countries. Covers inflation, GDP growth, exports and imports and Foreign direct investment figures. As it is a commercial provider not all data is public. 80 StatisticsWorldwide.com The blog links to an enormous amount of publicly available data. It links to not only economic data but also social statistics and demographic statistics. 81) Global-rates.com This website publishes short term interest rates and also inflation rates. Particularly useful if you are looking for $Libor, €Libor rates at 1 to 12 month time horizon. 82) PolicyUncertainty.com This research centre publishes some economic policy uncertainty indices for various countries. You can download monthly data on individual economies. 83) Forecasts.org/data Forecasts.org have a data page enabling you to find historical data on the GDP, interest rates, exchange rates, employment, the money supply, commodity prices and housing data. Excellent resource. 84) gpo.gov The US government printing office publishes up to date economic statistics on the United States since 1995. The data can be downloaded in spreadsheet of pdf format. Covers output, employment, production, prices, money, credit, Federal Finance and International statistics. 85) adb.org/data/statistics The Asian Development Bank database of statistical information covers a number of developing countries. Statistics available include national income, trade data, inflation, population and labor force statistics, government finance, monetary statistics and energy usage statistics. 86) google.com/publicdata/directory The Google public data directory links to lots of useful publicly available data sets. The site merely connects you to where the data is you cannot download the data without going to the relevant site. 87) MacroTrends.net This site provides lots of interesting long term charts comparing gold price to consumer prices, the Dow Jones compared to gold, debt to GDP etc. Charts cover the economy, markets and enable comparisons. 88) economicswebinstitute.org/data The Economics web institute provides links to lots of economic and social data sets. The data can be downloaded via excel spreadsheet. 89) phil.frb.org/data-files Thre Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank provides data on professional forecasts for a range of macroeconomic and finance data. This data is useful if you are looking for inflation forecasts or GDP forecasts and so on 90)Treasury.gov/resource-center/data The above links to the US Treasury data centre that has data on how much of US bonds is held by foreigners, US banking data, US derivative contracts and other data about US holdings of foreign assets and foreign holdings of US assets. Known as the Treasury International Capital (TIC) data. 91) Worldeconomics.com This site specializes in giving some unique data sets like World GDP, percentage of World GDP by region, world and regional price indices. Data starts in 1960 till present. 92) Trademap.org This site provides data in the form of tables, graphs and maps on export performance, international demand, alternative markets and competitive markets. It covers over 200 countries and territories and 5300 products of the Harmonized System. The monthly, quarterly and yearly trade flows are available from the most aggregated level to the tariff line level. In addition there is a directory of importing and exporting companies. 93) hdr.undp.org/en/data The Human Development Index is a measure used to look at the well being of different countries. Rather than jut GDP data it looks at other variables such as Health, Education and Social Factors. 94) worldstartupwiki.org/countrydata This site provides recent data on certain interesting statistics such as population, internet usage per 100 people, mobile subscriptions per 100 people, market capitalization of listed companies and much more ! 95) Gini Coefficients World Bank The World Bank publishes Gini coefficients for countries over time. The Gini coefficient lies between 0 to 100. A low Gini coefficient means an unequal distributions of income while a high Gini coefficient denotes a more equal distribution of income. 96) adb.org/data/statistics The Asian Development Bank has plenty of statistics in the Asian ?Economies including India, China, Pakistan, Japan and South Korea. There is macro data and key financial data sets available. 97) imf.org/datamapper We like the IMF datamapper as it enable you to draw maps of key data for various countries of the world. Like inflation, unemployment rates and economic growth rates. You can also compare advanced and emerging market economies and much more. 98) un.org/en/globaleconomicoutlook The UN Global economic outlook database is a superb resource as it enable you to get key macro data for regions and economies of the world since 2001. It also includes projections reported in the World Economic Situation and Prospects (WESP). The WESP is released in January and an update is released in June each year. 99) oecdbetterlifeindex.org This interactive OECD wensite lets you rank economies according to 11 criteria such as housing, income, jobs, community, environment, civil engagement, health, life satisfaction, safety and work-life balance. You can change the importance of these criteria to find you ideal country ! 100) Worldlifeexpectancy.com This website as well as giving the life expectancy of countries also gives the main causes of death per 100,000 of the population. You can see figures and visual maps of death rates per 100,000 causes by cancer, alcohol, aids/HIV, liver disease, road traffic accidents etc 101) gsociology.icaap.org/dataupload This popular data page provides lots of links to various socio-economic data sets such as population data, mortality data, demographic data, GDP per capita, energy consumption per capita, human rights indices etc 102) Bundesbank.de/EN/Statistics The German Bundesbank collects many useful statistics. It covers German public finance, monetary aggregates and capital markets. We also like the fact that it is easy to access many aggregate Eurozone statistics as well. 103) globaledge.msu.edu/country Global edge provide a quick overview of country data from various sources such as the world bank, the BBC and the US Department of State. 104) worldbank.org/governance The World Bank Governance indicators provide a rich dataset of various governance indicators on a scale of 1 to 4 on the following criteria Voice and Accountability, Political Stability and Absence of Violence, Government Effectiveness, Regulatory Quality, Rule of Law and Control of Corruption. You can check countries for the period 1995-2013. 105) efwdata.com The Economic Freedom of the World Index measure the Economic freedom of a country with regard to protection and enforcement of property rights. It is published by the Fraser Institute on the premise that "An index of economic freedom should measure the extent to which rightly acquired property is protected and individuals are engaged in voluntary transactions." The scale reads 1 to 10 with a higher number representing greater economic freedom. 106) economywatch.com/statistics Economy Watch provides a lot of macro statistics for various years. It is particularly useful as you can quickly see tables for data for other economies in the same table. There is GDP data, inflation data, economic freedom data, government debt and tax rates plus internet usage stats. 107) International Trade Center The International Trade Centre has a suite of online tools to make global trade more transparent and facilitate access to markets: Trade Map, Market Access Map, Investment Map, Trade Competitiveness Map, Standards Map, and Procurement Map. 108) PriceStats.com If you need purchasing power parity exchange rates based on a wide range of 250 products then this site provides them. In addition it provides daily inflation statistics based on online prices for 22 countries. 109) ourworldindata.org This site is full of useful data concerning population, health, food and agriculture, environment, technology, income distribution and Economic development and standard of living. Most of the data is presented in interesting charts. 110) Vizala.com This site has data on various economies and is divided into three key sections. Economy, Market Research and Society. Many statistics are available. It is a great way to quickly see comparative statistics of different countries and different years. 111) Allthatstats.com This site has access to many publicly avaiable economic statistics and it makes it easy to find exactly what you are looking for. In addition it plots some very useful charts of the data. 112) Federalreserve.gov/data The above links to a whole range of US related interest rate data, from commercial bills, to Treasury bonds, commercial paper and also copprate bonds. 113) Databank.rbs.com The Royal Banks of Scotland has a nice databank of data for various countries including interest rates, exchange rates, commodities and inflation rates. You can download the data in an excel spreadsheet. 114) Siblisresearch.com This site lets you looks for various financial data and financial indices. There are things like the CAPE and PE ratios and the market capitalization. 115) AssetMacro.com AssetMacro offers Free Historical Data for Leading Indicators of Economies and Market Data for Global Stocks, Bonds, Commodities and Currencies. 116) Econdata.uk EconData.uk is a one-stop website for a wide range of UK economic data. It brings together publicly-available data series on variables such as the government budget deficit, the national debt, real wages, income inequality and house prices. 117) unstats.un.org/unsd/databases The above links to a wide variety of UN databases, relating to population, trade, social indicators, economic statistics and more. 118) unstats.un.org/mbs The United Nations Monthly Bulletin of Statistics presents current economic and social statistics for more than 200 countries and territories of the world. Covering population, industrial production indices, price indices, employment and earnings, energy, manufacturing, transport, construction, international merchandise trade, finance and national accounts. 119) Freetheworld.com/countrydata The Fraser Index is a scale of 1 to 10 telling you how free a country is, a higher score represents higher economic freedom. Though the link you can look up differing countries Fraser Index scores over time. 120) TheGlobalEconomy.com This site is an excellent source of data once registered you international economic data compiled from multiple official sources: Including the World Bank, United Nations, Transparency international and more. Excellent resource. 121) sdw.ecb.europa.eu The European Central Bank has a lot of statistical data on the European Union countries including money supply, interest rates, prices, output and the labour market. 122) ec.europa.eu/eurostat/data/database The EuropeanUnion eurostat databse has tons of data on the 28 European Union member states. Covering the economy, trade, population, environment, migration and much more. 123) Euro-area-statistics.org This sites provides macroeconomic statistics for countries in the Euro Areas. The stats include interest rates, external sector, competitiveness indicators, macro indicators, securities and more. 124) ShadowStats.com John Williams Shadow Government Statistics is an electronic newsletter service that exposes and analyzes flaws in current U.S. government economic data and reporting, as well as in certain private-sector numbers. It provides an assessment of underlying economic and financial conditions, net of financial-market and political hype. 125) nowandfutures.com This site provides lots of useful charts and there is also some useful data download. 126) HistoricalStatistics.org A useful website if you are seeking some older statistics on certain countries. You can find lots of historical data covering exchange rates, interest rates, GDP and more. 127) UKtradeinfo.com A great place to get detailed statistics on UK trade data including who the UK trades with and values. 128) TheAtlas.com A site where you can find some data and interesting graphs. Graphs can be selected by popular, technology, finance and corporate. 129) conference-board/economydatabase The conference board is a good way to get data on economies especially things like their productivity relative to the United States 130) wageindicator.org If you want to know the minimum wages in a country or get up to speed with relevant labour laws then this site is a great place to go. There is also quite a lot of research publications on the labour market in various countries available. 131) globalization.kof.ethz.ch The KOF globalization index tell you what are the most globalised economies using economic, social and political criteria. The figures are revised annually so you can track the progress of a country over time. 132) Numbeo.com Numbeo is the world’s largest database of user contributed data about cities and countries worldwide. Numbeo provides current and timely information on world living conditions including cost of living, housing indicators, health care, traffic, crime and pollution. 133) Macrohistory.net This website has a lot of historical statistics including, GDP, house prices, debt, inflation, stocks and bonds and also credit data such as business or consumer loans and mortgage loans 134) OurWorldinData.org This is a popular site if you want to look at longer term trends in data on all sorts of things. It covers economic data, population, health, food, energy and much more. It is based in Oxford University and there is also some excellent articles, comments and blog posts on the data that are very insightful. 135) Doingbusiness.org/data The World Bank's doingbusiness databank is a superb reseource enabling you to get quantitative data on the various factors that enable businesses to operate. The database relies on contributions of more than 13,000 lawyers, accountants, judges, engineers, architects, businesspeople and public officials in 190 economies 136) Census.gov/econ The US census has a lot of data on the US economy covering retail trade, international trade, manufacturing and economy wide statistics. A great resource for those interested in the US economy. 137) economicsnetwork.ac.uk/data This page links to a wide range of datasets with accompanying commentary. It is particularly useful for UK students looking to get datasets on the UK economy. 138) ec.europa.eu/eurostat This is a great resource for data on the 28 EU member states. You can get trade statistics, GDP data, inflation, unemployment and much much more. 139) CEPII The CEPPII database has a range of datasets that are especially interesting for those studying international economics, these include effective exchange rates, trade and international investment, revealed comparative advantage and much more. 140) db.nomics.world DB Nomics takes datasets from various national statistical agencies, central banks, Treasuries and international organisations to provide access to many millions of economic data. A great resource. 141) WID.World The World Inequality Database is a superb resource for tracking and graphing the evolution of income inequality around the world. You can plot graphs by country over time and also compare countries. You can select the shares of various income groups like the top 1% and the bottom 50%. 142) Datahub.io This resource provides some freely available economic and financial datasets which are easily downloadable in spreadsheet form. Tcdata360.worldbank.org TCdata360 is an initiative of the World Bank Group's Macroeconomics, Trade & Investment Global Practice, which is based on data coming mainly from strong contributions from private sector. organisations such as think tanks. ourworldindata.org/income-inequality If you are interested in useful charts showing how inequality varies both between countries and within countries over time then we highly recommend this site. It is packed with useful charts and often goes back in time to the early part of the 20th century. Copyright BusinessEconomics.com  |
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