Library and Academic Success: Global Business Management: Country-specific Data

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Government of Canada: Industry Sector Intelligence
Find statistics and analysis for Canadian industries.
Statistics Canada
Look for Canadian statistical data by subject, data, or analysis.

GlobalData Explorer This link opens in a new window
This database includes: Company profiles for both public & private companies; Industry profiles including competitive analysis on a global or country level; Country profiles and macro-economic social, demographic and industry stats exist for many countries. Explore the rich business data available.

CIA World Factbook
Information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.
European Union
Find out about living and working in the EU. Additional information about doing business in the EU available.
GINI Index
Gini index measures the extent to which the distribution of income (or, in some cases, consumption expenditure) among individuals or households within an economy deviates from a perfectly equal distribution.
Numbeo
A database of user contributed data about cities and countries worldwide. Data includes: cost of living, housing indicators, health care, traffic, crime and pollution.
UNdata
Sponsored by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), UNdata is a new internet based data service.
Country Data Services has country-specific links
World Bank Doing business in . . .
Search by country [economy].
This site provides data to compare business regulation environments across economies and over time.
The Doing Business Project looks at domestic small and medium-size companies and measures the regulations applying to them through their life cycle
WTO [World Trade Organization] Statistics
WTO has numerous data available including trade profiles and tariff information. Explore WTO's statistics page on trade on tariffs to find information.

CultureGrams World Edition This link opens in a new window
Cultural reports for more than 200 countries each include categories such as land and climate, history, personal appearance, greetings, dating and marriage, family, diet, housing, holidays, economy, education, and health.
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GlobalData Explorer This link opens in a new window
This database includes: Company profiles for both public & private companies; Industry profiles including competitive analysis on a global or country level; Country profiles and macro-economic social, demographic and industry stats exist for many countries. Explore the rich business data available.

Country codes
ISO standard-based alpha numeric country codes.

Usel to restrict domain to a specific country in web searching; e.g., to limit to Russia, site:.ru