From The United Nations Statistics Division whose mission is to promote the development of national statistical systems, has developed a central repository of country profiles of statistical systems. Includes a list of countries and organizations which includes a brief history of the country's statistical system, legal basis, the statistical programme and much more.
World Bank reports on how the business climate in countries around the world. Includes other data such as number of new businesses registered, corporate tax burden, and new business density.
Doing Business project provided objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement. The project looked at domestic small and medium-size companies and measured the rules affecting them throughout their lifecycles. Reports cover 11 indicator sets and 190 economies.
If you employ staff, you need to know the basic rules about working hours and guarantee the minimum standards set by the EU directives. You should respect the rules covering minimum daily and weekly rest, breaks, night work as well as annual leave and maximum weekly working time.
The Weekly Epidemiological Update provides an overview of the global, regional and country-level COVID-19 cases and deaths, highlighting key data and trends; as well as other pertinent epidemiological information concerning the COVID-19 pandemic.
Use the Explore Data tool to find city or county data including population, education attainment, income and poverty, employment, housing, heath, families and living arrangements, and racial and ethnic data.
The World Factbook provides basic intelligence on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, environment, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.
This collection contains electronic versions of eighty books originally sponsored by the U.S. Army and written by researchers affiliated with the Library’s Federal Research Division. Intended for a general audience, the studies provide descriptions and analyses of lesser-known countries or regions where U.S. military forces might be deployed. Reports mostly from the 1990s.
U.S. Commercial Service helps U.S. businesses export and grow internationally. The U.S. Commercial Service (CS), part of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration, offers companies a full range of expertise in international trade. Companies can find assistance locally in more than 100 U.S. Commercial Service offices nationwide and in more than 70 international offices.
Publically-accessible EIU data on countries around the world. Country sections include politics, economy, risk, business, and industry. Many reports are free but require registration.
207 country profiles which allow you to explore the statistics on the coronavirus pandemic for every country in the world. Our World in Data and the SDG-Tracker are collaborative efforts between researchers at the University of Oxford, who are the scientific editors of the website content; and the non-profit organization Global Change Data Lab, who publishes and maintains the website and the data tools that make our work possible.
Established in 1997 out of a love for international relations and culture. Entirely online, we offer more than 35,000 pages of content on the countries of the world. Our cultural, historical and statistical information has proven to be valuable to students, parents, teachers, and researchers alike. Unclear who is responsible for the website content or where their funding comes from.
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