Data and Statistics for Social Workers

A database of data databases. Global coverage as available. Temporal coverage depends on topic, which include population, health, energy, environment, growth and inequality, education, politics.

Data that goes back as far as 1815 with a myriad of indicators covering all aspects of GP.

A single entry point to a variety of statistical resources of the UN System. It pools major UN databases and those of several international organizations and includes Key Indicators and MDG Indicators.

Provides access to data with 298 indicators in topics such as Development, Economics and Finance, Health, Education and more. There is also a microdata library of sample surveys.

Statistics on aid appeals and funding trends.

Houses data of donor countries and recipients so that you can track where development aid goes and for what it was used.

Provides data specifically on U.S. Foreign Assistance.

This website provides access to over 3 million time-series and cross sectional data relating to food and agriculture. FAOSTAT contains data for 200 countries and more than 200 primary products and inputs, just in its core.

International Human Development Indicators that were used when preparing the Human Development Index and the 2010 Human Development Report, commissioned by the UN Development Programme.

Includes 600 indicators in 83 tables, arranged in six sections: world view, people, environment, economy, states and markets, and global links. The tables cover 148 economies and 14 country groups with basic indicators for a further 62 economies.

The HRDAG currently provides public access to six data sets concerning human rights violations in countries such as Kosovo, Liberia, and Sierra-Leone. Data are both quantitative and qualitative.

From the Stockholm International Peace Institute, provides an easily identifiable measure of the scale of resources absorbed by military activities. SIPRI military expenditure data are entirely based on open sources, and as much as possible on official data.

Provides data and trends on the refugees, asylum-seekers, returned refugees, internally displaced persons (IDPs) protected/assisted by UNHCR, returned IDPs, stateless persons, and others of concern to UNHCR, in more than 150 countries.