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Data & Statistics

This guide will point you in the direction of sources for data and statistics. Sources come from the Governments of Canada and Ontario, local municipalities, the U.S. Census Bureau, the United Nations, and subscription databases.

International statistics resources

International

GlobalEDGE Database of International Business Statistics. Free registration required. Non-commercial, academic use only.
International Trade Centre. Trade Statistics.
Trade statistics & market access information for export development, & indicators on export performance, international demand, alternative markets & the role of competitors. Annual trade data for 220 countries & territories & all 5,300 products of the Harmonized System.
OECD Statistics. OECD.Stat includes data and metadata for OECD countries and selected non-member economies.
Population Reference Bureau
Statistical Data Sources: GlobalEdge
UN Comtrade. Free access to detailed global trade data.
UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade & Development) 2022 Handbook of Statistics
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
UN Data
Education, Employment, Environment, Food & Agriculture, Health, Human Development.
United Nations Statistics Division
World Bank Open Data. Browse by country or indicator.
World Bank Development Data Catalog
World Data Atlas. World and regional statistics, national data, maps, rankings.
International Data Base. U.S. Census Bureau.
Create and download a dataset of demographic and population indicators on 227 countries around the world.

Europe

Eurostat: Your Key to European Statistics
United Kingdom Open Datas
UK Data Archives
UK Office for National Statistics
UNECE
United Nations Commission for Europe.
GDP, demographics & more. 1990 - current.

United States

Asia

Latin America

International open data portals

Australian Government Data
ICPSR
ICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 250,000 files of research in the social and behavioral sciences. It hosts 21 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.
DataONE
"DataONE is a community driven project providing access to data across multiple member repositories, supporting enhanced search and discovery of Earth and environmental data."
DataReportal
"DataReportal offers hundreds of free reports packed with data, insights, and trends to help you make more informed decisions."
Data Catalogs
Data Portals
OECD Data
"Find, compare and share the latest OECD data: charts, maps, tables and related publications."