Introduction to Comparative Politics: Country Information

Basic encyclopedic information from the CIA about countries around the world, such as history, people, politics, geography, and more. CIA World Factbook has information on the percent of different ethnic groups within individual nations.

In-depth country profiles (summary of history, current events, government directory, statistics, and more). Choose countries from the drop-down menu at the top.

Political history, current issues, recent election trends and results, media information, and key demographic and economic facts.

The State Department profiles each country's economy, history, geography, demographics, and recent political history.

Search by topic across hundreds of datasets. Browse by data producer. Good for determining who has collected the data or statistics. Note: use Firefox, Safari, or IE. Does not work in Chrome due to Java problems.

Database of social, economic, environmental, and political indicators compiled by the World Resources Institute. *This is no longer being updated but still has useful source information.*

A massive central data source enabling users to graphically compare nations. NationMaster is a vast compilation of data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD. Features include interactively generated maps and graphs (including country rankings) for statistics covering several hundred categories.

Portal to data and statistics gathered by the United Nation's many statistical agencies. Search across the unified index or link to individual agencies or country data.

1000+ economic, social, environmental, and governance time series indicators (1960-current) across 200 countries and 18 country groups.