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The UNSD Division is committed to the advancement of the global statistical system. We compile and disseminate global statistical information, develop standards and norms for statistical activities, and support countries' efforts to strengthen their national statistical systems

OECD Factbook 2013 is a comprehensive and dynamic statistical annual publication from the OECD. More than 100 indicators cover a wide range of areas: agriculture, economic production, education, energy, environment, foreign aid, health, industry, information and communications, international trade, labour force, population, taxation, public expenditure, and R&D. This year, the OECD Factbook features a focus chapter on gender

Data on Statistical Capacity of development countries

City populations statistics, admin borders

A statistical site of UN Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN with large time series and cross sectional data relating to hunger, food and agrculture for 245 countries and territories and 35 regional areas, from 1961 to the most recent year

UN statistical database with currently 33 databases on all topics inclusive weather

View a breif country profil , thier humanitarian and political profiles. Inclusive map and chart statistics

Index Mundi generates Internet's most complete country profiles. This site contains detailed country statistics, charts, and maps compiled from multiple sources.

Index Mundi generates Internet's most complete country profiles. This site contains detailed country statistics, charts, and maps compiled from multiple sources.

The use of indices to measure changes in countries across different policy areas is becoming increasingly frequent. From human rights to conflict, from governance to gender, many organizations have invested in developing statistical models that derive data from multiple sources and rank countries according to their score. The IPI's Global Observatory provides the first list of country indices available in open-sources. It reviews thirty indices and provides a description of the methodology and results.

The 2013 edition of World Development Indicators (WDI) has just been released. WDI 2013 provides a new look to high-quality cross-country comparable statistics about development and people's lives around the globe. All the new features of the WDI suite of products can be accessed from data.worldbank.org/wdi, and include: *New online tables with all the data tables , will be automatically updated when the database is updated four times a year, and can be accessed in web browsers or downloaded as PDF files *An improved WDI "DataFinder" application available in English, Spanish, French and Chinese, in tablet and mobile phone editions for both Android and iOS. The full text of the printed book is also included. *An update to the WDI database, including improved notes and metadata "about the data" from the printed book, explaining the relevance of the indicators for development, their source, and their methodology. *An updated version of the Little Data Book 2013

Key ICT indicators for developed and developing countries and the world (totals and penetration rates). Key ICT indicators for the ITU/BDT regions (totals and penetration rates)

This site presents the official data, definitions, methodologies and sources for more than 60 indicators to measure progress towards the Millennium Development Goals. The data and analyses are the product of the work of the Inter-agency and Expert Group (IAEG) on MDG Indicators, coordinated by the United Nations Statistics Division. You will also find the official progress reports and documents produced by IAEG.

The GED provides access to education data from UNESCO's Institute for Statistics and the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS). UNESCO data include a broad range of indicators, including data on all levels of education, workforce development, and literacy

The Afghanistan Provincial Indicators (API) should offer to quickly access provincial-level data selected by subject-matter experts from the Civil-Military Fusion Centre (CFC) consolidated the best available data from credible, "open" sources such as the United Nations and the Afghan government's Central Statistics Organisation

Crisis Mappers leverage mobile & web-based applications, participatory maps & crowdsourced event data, aerial & satellite imagery, geospatial platforms, visual analytics, and computational & statistical models to power effective early warning for rapid response to complex humanitarian emergencies

MDG Labs enables users to compare selected MDG indicator data produced within a country by national agencies with those published by international agencies. Any differences between the data series are highlighted and explained. MDG Labs aims to clarify these differences and allow users to choose the most appropriate data for their context