United Nations Resources

The African Centre for Statistics is intended to serve as a regional data hub for economic, social, demographic, and environmental conditions in African countries.

From the UN Statistics Division, national and international data is available here to track development progress at the country level.

The Statistical Database of the Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) country profiles for ECE member countries, including population, migration, economy, transport, and forestry.

This portal is maintained by the UN Initiative on Global Geospatial Information Management. The country section showcases best practices and case studies to illustrate the successful use of geospatial information. The portal also provides key references and documents on National Spatial Data Infrastructures.

The ECLAC Digital Repository is maintained by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. A section for Data & Statistics contains La Comisión Económica para América Latina’s CEPALSTAT, the gateway to all the statistical information of Latin America and the Caribbean countries collected, systematized, and published by ECLAC.

Managed by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), this site allows users to browse by topic or country. It includes data and metadata for OECD countries and selected nonmember economies.

This site was created by the UN Conference on Trade & Development. It houses data and country profiles including more than 150 indicators and statistical time series.

World DataBank is an analysis and visualization tool that contains collections of time-series data that users can view by indicators, countries, or regions.

This is the main page of the UN Statistical Division, where users can search by demographic and social topics (population size and density, family formation, violence against women, etc.). This site links to databases and publications covering demographics, housing, and women and gender issues.

View specifics about the minimum set of gender indicators, including qualitative and quantitative indicators relating to health, education, public life, and human rights of women and children.

Made available from the UN Development Programme, these include Human Development Data from 1980 to 2015, the Human Development Index, and Google’s Public Data Explorer.

This site from the Population Division of DESA contains international migration flow datasets and migration profiles.

This site features the World Population Prospects Database, Demographic Yearbooks, and Global and Regional Population Distribution. The site aggregates data from multiple UN agencies, including the Statistics Division, Population, UNHCR, UNAIDS, and others.)