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The World Factbook provides basic intelligence on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, environment, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.
World Statistics gives user-friendly access to a selection of indicators, carefully selected to meet the most important needs of decision-makers, analysts, journalists, researchers, students and other users. All these indicators can be easily searched, visualized as tables, maps or graphs, and downloaded for further processing.
Country profiles are selections of key economic statistics by country. They include a wide range of internationally comparable indicators allowing users to assess and compare countries.
Data Center (UN)
Easily found and comparable data from the UN
This is the most comprehensive list of open data portals in the world. It is curated by a group of leading open data experts from around the world - including representatives from local, regional and national governments, international organizations such as the World Bank, and numerous NGOs.
Gapminder identifies systematic misconceptions about important global trends and proportions and uses reliable data to develop easy to understand teaching materials to rid people of their misconceptions.
Eurostat produces European statistics in partnership with National Statistical Institutes and other national authorities in the EU Member States.