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Country Profiles

Country Commercial Guides
These include reports on market conditions, opportunities, regulations, and business customs.
WorldBank Countries and Regions
Country and region-level economic data on several data points.
CIA World Factbook
Concise profiles of the countries of the world, updated regularly. Great first stop for background, quick facts, and statistics.
OECD Country Reports
Countries, Peoples, & Cultures
This link will take you to the links for the 9 volumes of Countries, Peoples, & Cultures. Choose the region for your country and click through to access the book online.
Global Edge
Insights on country data, trading blocs, and economic classifications.

Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other reference sources that provide authoritative information. Entries may be quick facts or in-depth articles. Useful for: background information, key concepts, historical context, and mining reference lists.
Statista This link opens in a new window
Statista is a statistics portal that integrates data on media, business, finance, politics, and a wide variety of other areas of interest or markets on over 60,000 topics from 18,000 sources.

List of National Foreign Government Sites
Maintained by Northwestern University Library.

IBISWorld This link opens in a new window
Includes robust United States, China, and global-level industry reports.

Google News
Search Google News with you country (or major city) and the name of the specific theme/amusement park or "theme park," "water park," "amusement park."

Access World News Research Collection (1972-Current) This link opens in a new window
Current and archived information from 1972 to present from thousands of local, regional, national, and international news sources including newspaper titles, newswires, web editions, videos, broadcast transcripts, business journals, periodicals, government documents and other publications. Also Included in this collection are North Carolina, Appalachia, Multi-Cultural, African American, and Military, Government & Defense news sources.

UN Data
The United Nations collects/reports a wide variety of statistics. This is an access system to UN databases. It brings UN statistical databases within easy reach of users through a single entry point.

Political / Legal

World Bank Worldwide Governance Indicators
The World Bank's Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) project reports aggregate and individual governance indicators for countries and territories for six dimensions of governance: Voice and Accountability, Political Stability and Absence of Violence, Government Effectiveness, Regulatory Quality, Rule of Law and Control of Corruption. Click on "Interactive Data Access" to access the most recent reports.
OECD Competition Trends
Internationally-focused report on trends in competition from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Reviews the latest developments in competition law and policy.

Economic

World Bank Country Data
Data including GDP, population, school enrollment, and more from The World Bank.
OECD Economic Outlook
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD’s) biannual analysis of the major economic trends and prospects for the next two years.
Coface Economic Studies & Country Risk
Average credit risk evaluation of individual country's businesses.

Socio-Cultural & Technological

UNESCO Institute for Statistics
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Institute's statistical data & country profiles focusing on four themes: culture and communications, education, literacy, and science and technology.
Hofstede Country Comparison Tool
Comprehensive study of how values in the workplace are influenced by culture.

Ecological

WorldBank Data
Browse data by country or economic indicator.
UN Data
The United Nations collects/reports a wide variety of statistics. This is an access system to UN databases. It brings UN statistical databases within easy reach of users through a single entry point.

Country Risk Reports
Investment risk considerations, by country.
Business Ready
WorldBank's benchmarks of "the business environment and investment climate in most economies worldwide."
Political Risk Yearbook (via Business Source Premier)
Search for Political Risk Yearbook and the name of your country.
U.S. Bilateral Relations Fact Sheets
Up-to-date details on the relationship between U.S. and each country.
World Bank Worldwide Governance Indicators
The World Bank's Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) project reports aggregate and individual governance indicators for countries and territories for six dimensions of governance: Voice and Accountability, Political Stability and Absence of Violence, Government Effectiveness, Regulatory Quality, Rule of Law and Control of Corruption. Click on "Interactive Data Access" to access the most recent reports.