Research Guides: ECON 225: Economic Development (BMC): Finding Data

Data

World Development Indicators (WDI) Online This link opens in a new window
World Development Indicators (WDI) is the primary World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized international sources. It includes more than 1100 indicators on population, income, social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environment, covering 210 countries and 18 regional and income groups. Also includes the International Debt Statistics (IDS) database. Data ranges from 1960-present.

United Nations Millennium Development Goals Indicators
Data download portal for the indicators used to assess the UN's Millennium Development Goals, aimed at ending global poverty.
Penn World Table
The Penn World Table provides purchasing power parity and national income accounts converted to international prices for 188 countries for some or all of the years 1950-2010. The European Union or the OECD provide more detailed purchasing power and real product estimates for their countries and the World Bank makes current price estimates for most PWT countries at the GDP level.
United Nations Development Programme - Data Section
The UN Development Programme's Data Section has downlodable data on numerous development indicators, including the Human Development Index (HDI) and to their Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI).
UNdata
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Search portal for numerous databases from the United Nations Statistical Division. This portal will search WDIs, MDG indicators, IMF financial statistics, and more via a single interface.
International Statistical Agencies
The US Census Bureau's useful directory of links to the official statistical agencies of numerous countries. Sometimes these agencies make more or more detailed economic data available via their website than what is reported to multilateral organizations (WTO, World Bank, IMF, etc.).