Global Studies: World Information

Full profiles provide an instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries and territories, and background on key institutions.
They also include audio and video clips from BBC archives.

The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities. Our Reference tab includes: maps of the major world regions, as well as Flags of the World, a Physical Map of the World, a Political Map of the World, a World Oceans map, and a Standard Time Zones of the World map.

This is your source for statistical data for nearly every country around the world. In addition to statistics, historical, economic, and political conditions are available; use our Executive Memos for fingertip access to current information and the globalEDGE network to locate members in each country.

The UN Refugee Agency is a global organization dedicated to saving lives and protecting the rights of refugees, forcibly displaced communities, and stateless people.

ARDA was founded in 1997 and provides data on religion. Data is submitted by religious scholars and research centers around the world.

The International Religious Freedom Report is given annually to Congress. The report describes the status of religious freedom in every country.

WHO is an international organization that seeks to build a healthier future for people all over the world.

The DHS collects data from around the world. The goal is to advance global understanding of health and population trends in developing countries.

The HIIK has published the Conflict Barometer annually since 1992. The publication is analysis of the global conflict events that took place in that year. This includes violent and non-violent crises, wars, coup d'etats, and peace negotiations.

Each year the Secretary of State provides Congress with a complete report on terrorism regarding specific countries and groups.

This is a searchable database on all the suicide attacks from 1974 - June 2016. It includes information about location, target type, etc.

This is an open-source database that includes information on terrorist events from around the world 1970-2016.

Provides data on organized violence. The online database on armed conflicts is continuously updated.

Amnesty International is a organization that is focused on human rights. They conduct research on abuses of human rights and act to prevent those abuses.

The mission of the Human Development Report Office is to advance human development. The report introduced the Human Development Index (HDI) which measures achievement of basic dimensions of human development across countries.

The U.S. Department of State submits an annual report that looks at individual, civil, political, and worker rights set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The report focuses on countries receiving assistance and United Nations members.

Eurostat is the statistical office of the European Union. The goal of Eurostat is to provide high quality statistics for Europe.

The mission of NationMaster is to provide statistics and information about countries. You can compare the data of different countries using the websites comparison tool.

The UNESCO institute for Statistics provides internationally comparable data on education, science, culture, and communication.

CountryData allows countries to share their national development indicators with the global community.

The mission of the Census Bureau is to be a source of quality data about the nation's people and economy.