International Studies

The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), an international organization of colleges and universities which provide access to the world's largest archive of computerized social science data in the areas of political science, sociology, demography, economics, history, education, gerontology, criminal justice, public health, foreign policy, and law occurring in over 130 countries. Special archives on health and medical care, education, aging, criminal justice and substance abuse and mental health available. Most of the ICPSR datasets are downloadable only by current BC faculty and students. Federally funded data are freely available to the public.

Statistical data from around the world (Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania) covering a wide range of socio-economic topics. This resource updates the latest print edition (2007) of International Historical Statistics. It includes 260 years of data, collected between 1750-2010, and offers the ability to compare by year or geographic region and to download data as an ePDF or Excel file.

Index to local, national and international intergovernmental statistical publications from 1983 to the present. Includes citation information with large number of pdf or spreadsheet downloads available.

A collection of United States national public opinion polling data spanning from 1935 to present day. Data is organized at the question level and sourced from major polling institutions including polling research centers, like Gallup and Pew, academic, commercial and news organizations. Search and browse by topic, polling organization, date and more. Some data sets are downloadable.

Provides quantitative data on media, business, finance, politics, and more.

An integrated search portal for selected free international statistics from the World Bank, World Development Indicators (WDI), Global Development Finance (GDF), International Monetary Fund (IMF), UNESCO and other organizations. It includes a large number of economic and social indicators for 274 countries and areas.

World Bank databases covering specialized world indicator topics such as social indicators, economic indicators, environmental indicators, state, market indicators, and international indicators along with statistics on the external debt of developing countries derived from loan-by-loan records. World Development Indicators coverage from 1960 for 228 countries and 18 groups of countries. Global Development Finance from 1970 for 128 countries.