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The Census Bureau's primary vehicle for distributing recent Census data. Data from the 2000 and 2010 Census, economic censuses since 2002, and the American Community Survey are also available here.

The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government.

Features a list of data resources from Federal government agencies. Includes such topics as, business, economics, defense, international relations, environment, energy, agriculture, family, geospatial data, health, nutrition, jobs and education, public safety, science, technology, transportation, and recreation.

A data analysis and extraction tool to customize federal, state, and local data to suit your requirements.

Authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Also available in print 1878-2012 in the Government Information department.

Note: the U.S. government no longer produces this publication. This is now produced commercially by ProQuest. Newer editions are available through one of our consortia members https://marianunivindianapolis.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1193890

Provides an overview of diplomatic and economic relations between the named country and the USA, membership in international organizations, names and contact information for diplomatic personnel and links to additional country information from the CIA, USAID, Foreign Trade data from the Census Bureau, and the more in-depth Country Study (a book-lenth work) published by the Library of Congress.

The World Factbook, produced for US policymakers and coordinated throughout the US Intelligence Community, marshals facts on every country, dependency, and geographic entity in the world.

Numerous databases, tables and glossaries containing over 60 million data points cover a wide range of themes including Agriculture, Crime, Education, Employment, Energy, Environment, Health, HIV/AIDS, Human Development, Industry, Information and Communication Technology, National Accounts, Population, Refugees, Tourism, Trade, as well as the Millennium Development Goals indicators.

Economic information portal from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Provides over 75 key economic indicators for most countries; collected by national statistical agencies and central banks.