Background Notes are general overviews of each country of the world with general information.

Colorado provides a high quality list of links to information about each country in the world. It has links to the web sites from: the government itself, the U.S. government, international organizations such as the U.N., commercial web sites such as the BBC.

This source is an encyclopedia of foreign governments, with brief statistics, geographical facts, and maps that are clear and easy to reporduce. Unlike other sources, this one details the political structure and gives percent support for each political party in the country.

Reports on the policies rather than the statistics from countries around the world.

An interactive database that allows you to get labor data for each country in the world by category by date.

This site provides the latest international data available, mainly from creditor sources, on banking statistics, securities, derivatives, foreign exchange, and external debt for all countries worldwide. Reports are available in PDF form and as spreadsheets.

This site, which can be accessed by a password from Winona State University, has many publications pertaining to individual countries, including trade data and economic data available here through Stat-USA.

Stats and facts by country on a wide variety of topics. They include:
*Military expenditures
*Arms Production and Trade
*Memberships, Agreements, and Events
*Conflicts and Peace Keeping Activities
*Political System and Country Indicators

Full text guides and reports to assist U.S. companies in exporting goods to other countries. There are Country Commercial Guides, specific Industry Sector Analysis reports, and trade directories. You have to register (it is free) before you can have access to the guides.

No longer published, these book-length investigations were originally published by the Defense Department. There are studies on 70 different countries. Some of the studies are old (Iraq is from 1988) while others are more recent (Russia is from 1996).

Further Internet resources for finding international statistics.