Introduction to Comparative Politics: Finance and Economy

Global securities and exchange statistics

An index of basic social indicators across 175+ countries.

Huber, Ragin, Stephens et. al data on wages, salaries, public expenditures, more.

Free site created by the World Bank. Self-described as providing "objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 178 countries." Users can cross-reference multiple countries and economies and learn about laws impacting economic growth.

From the Fraser Institute, ranks the U.S. states and Canada on labor legislation and government business regulations.

The Fraser Institute's measures of labor and business regulations in Arab countries.

Fraser Institute's measures of credit, labor, and business regulations across countries.

A directory of datasets concerning economic growth, hosted at University of Bristol.

Euro Area indicators including GDP, prices, interest rates, and more.

From the World Economic Forum.

Historical financial time series, some dating back to 1265. Includes datasets in 10 topics: Asset Allocation, Commodities, Economic, Equity, Exchange Rates, Fixed Income, Development, Government and Debt, International Trade, and National Accounts. Carleton subscribes.

"Mainly annual data on unions, employers, industrial relations and collective bargaining in 20 OECD countries from 1950 to 2000."

Budgetary and extra-budgetary financial operations data of governments, with history to 1990, published by the IMF (International Monetary Fund).

The Heritage Foundation averages 10 individual freedoms it considers relevant to economic prosperity across 179 countries.

Statistics on oil, natural gas, coal, and more.

Official statistics on trade union membership for 49 countries collected by the ILO from national statistical publications it receives, coded into Excel. Information about the sources if available is detailed in the Word document. Notes on methodology, sources, coverage, and definitions used by countries is provided in the SOURCES file. These statistics are not adjusted for use across time and comparability between countries.

From the UN's agency focused on labor, databases and statistics covering 200+ countries spanning several decades.

Statistics for the former member states of the Soviet Union.

From the Legatum Institute, measures 100 nations against drivers of wealth and competitiveness.

Welfare systems in OECD countries.

Progressive Policy Institute measures knowledge jobs, globalization, innovation, and more across U.S. states.

"...a set of national accounts economic time series covering many countries...." This link goes to version 6.3. Version 7.0 is available but only for download -- a web interface is not yet developed.

Measures political and economic risk associated with a country.

Measures income inequality across countries, 1963-1999.

Income inequality for developed, developing, and transition countries. Includes Gini coefficient, quintile, and decile shares.

From the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank, surveyed 10,000 firms across 80 countries in '99-'00 on investment and business climate.

Analyzes economic performance, business and government efficiencies, and infrastructure across nations.

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