Government Resources

"The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities."

This is country listing from the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Consular Affairs. It provides travel advisories, information about visas, embassies, and consulates, and more.

This is an excellent source from the U.S. Department of Commerce that provides book-length reports on the practical information of how to do business with a particular nation. Topics include tariff information, distribution channels, investment climate, trade regulations, business travel, and leading sectors for U.S. exports.

"The Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) is the nation’s premier collection of documents related to homeland security policy, strategy, and organizational management. The HSDL is part of the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security and is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s National Preparedness Directorate, FEMA."

"The mission of the Office of International and Interagency Relations (OIIR) is to provide executive leadership and coordination for all NASA international and interagency activities and partnerships, and for policy interactions between NASA and other U.S. Executive Branch offices and agencies."

"The National Defense Strategy sets the strategic direction of the Department [of Defense] to support U.S. national security priorities. The National Defense Strategy includes the Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) and the Missile Defense Review (MDR)."

This hub has a huge amount of global healthcare systems and public health data. Country profiles and the annual World Health Statistics report are useful in a variety of contexts.

These are individual country profiles. As the IMF focuses on the global economy, these profiles spotlight each country using an economic lens, although other issues are discussed.

These publications highlight the research of the International Monetary Fund's analysts on the global economy, including on individual countries and regions. The IMF endeavors to promote global economic stability.

A companion to their Publications portal, this portal allows users to find data for countries around the word, including non-OECD members.

The Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) comprises mostly developed nations and produces all kinds of reports, data, and much more. These publications are now freely available to researchers.

The United Nations has 17 of these goals to improve the world. Click on each goal to find progress indicators, reports by UN experts, and more.

The World Development Indicators is a compilation of relevant, high-quality, and internationally comparable statistics about global development and the fight against poverty. The database contains 1,400 time series indicators for 217 economies and more than 40 country groups, with data for many indicators going back more than 50 years.