Look up countries, cities, continents. Check out the "In Detail" section for more practical information. Navigate around the ads for helpful travel information.
Information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.
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.
A database of user contributed data about cities and countries worldwide. Data includes: cost of living, housing indicators, health care, traffic, crime and pollution.
Sponsored by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), UNdata is a new internet based data service.
Country Data Services has country-specific links
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
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. Permitted Uses: License Info
