General Economic Data
My International Political Economy and International Organizations pages may also provide relevant information or data.
The Pink Sheet: From the World Bank; average monthly, quarterly, and annual prices for many important commodities. This report appears to have been published from 1995-1998, covering the years 1993-1997.
- Spatial-Temporal Domain:
- Variables Included:
World Stock Market Indices (end-of-decade closing prices for each international stock market from 1899 to the present; from Global Financial Data)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain:
- Variables Included:
Stock Market Indices, 1800-1998 (yearly stock market data for the US, UK, France, Germany, and Japan since 1800; from Global Financial Data)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain:
- Variables Included:
Consumer Price Index Data (CPI figures for each country since 1900, aggregated by decade; from Global Financial Data)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain:
- Variables Included:
U.S. Dollar-British Pound Exchange Rate (from Global Financial Data)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain:
- Variables Included:
Long-term Exchange Rates (exchange rates for each country's currency with the U.S. dollar since 1899, aggregated by decade; from Global Financial Data)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain:
- Variables Included:
Economic Capabilities
My International Political Economy and International Organizations pages may also provide relevant information or data.
Penn World Tables 5.6 (available for downloading through the University of Pennsylvania, University of Toronto, and the NBER at Harvard)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: Global (152 countries), 1950-1993
- Variables Included: Population, Real GDP per capita in constant dollars, Real GDP per capita (Laspeyres index), Consumption share of GDP %, Investment share of GDP %, Government share of GDP %, Real GDP per capita in constant dollars adjusted for changes in the terms of trade, Real GDP per capita (current international prices), Real Consumption share of GDP, Investment share of GDP (current international prices), Government share of GDP (current international prices), Price level GDP % (PPP GDP), Exchange rate relative to U.S.), Price level Consumption % ([PPP of C]/XR), Price level Investment % ([PPP of I]/XR), Price level Government % ([PPP of G]/XR), Exchange Rate, Real GDP per Equivalent Adult, Real GDP per Worker (1985 international prices), Capital Stock per Worker (1985 international prices), Producer Durables (% of KapW), Nonresidential construction (% of KapW), Other Construction (% of KapW), Residential construction, Transportation Equipment, Openness (Exports+Imports), CGDP, Real Gross National Product, Gross Domestic Private Investment, Standard of Living Index
Handbook of International Economic Statistics (from the CIA)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: (list forthcoming)
- Variables Included: (list forthcoming)
Factor Endowment data and codebook (from Mohan Penubarti and Keith Maskus; covers all countries in the Penn World Tables, 1970-1990)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain:
- Variables Included:
IADB Economic and Social Database (for the Western Hemisphere, 1980-1998; includes numerous indicators of balance of payments, debt, finance, government expenditures, labor, national accounts, prices, education, health, population, and exports and imports)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain:
- Variables Included:
Macroeconomic Factors and Growth Data (from Stan Fischer; see also his abstract)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: 1961-1988
- Variables Included: Growth rate of total GDP, Capital stock growth rate, Labor force growth rate, Growth rate of total human capital, Average years of educational attainment of the labor force, Solow productivity residual, Average Barro-Lee human capital stock, Inflation rate, Inflation uncertainty, Budget surplus/deficit, Average ratio of liquid liabilities to GDP, Rate of change of terms of trade, Average openness
GDP and Capital Data (from King and Levine; see also their abstract)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: Annual data for 136 countries 1950-1988, Averages for 1980s for 117 countries
- Variables Included: Capital stock per capita, Capital-Output ratio (annual), Capital stock per capita, Capital-Output ratio, Real GDP per capita, Growth rate of Capital per capita, Growth of Real GDP per Capita (average for 1980s)
Finance, Entrepeneurship, and Economic Growth Data (from King and Levine; see also their abstract)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: (list forthcoming)
- Variables Included: (list forthcoming)
Economic Growth Data (from Levine and Renelt; see also their abstract)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: (list forthcoming)
- Variables Included: (list forthcoming)
Data on Physical Capital Stock (from Nehru and Dhareshwar; see also their abstract)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain:
- Variables Included: Total physical capital; GDP at market prices; Human capital stock: mean years of primary education, mean years of secondary education, mean years of tertiary education, total mean years education; Gross domestic fixed investment (GDFI); GDFI in producers durables (share of total GDFI); Potential GDP series; Total mid-year population; Population between ages 15 and 64
Economic Productivity Data (from Bartelsman and Gray)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: (list forthcoming)
- Variables Included: (list forthcoming)
Political Instability and Economic Growth Data (from Alesina, Ozler, Roubini, and Swagel; see also their codebook)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: 119 countries, 1950-1982
- Variables Included: Anti-government demonstrations Number of assassinations, Black market premium, Major Cabinet Changes, Genocide, Major Constitutional Changes, Coups d'Etat, Ethnolinguistic fractionalization, Major Government Crises ,Growth rate of real per capita GDP, Institutions, Financial Depth, Log of Schooling, Log of Telephones per worker, Purges, Revolutions, Riots Fiscal Surplus/GDP, War on national territory , Civil war, Neighbors', Average Growth, Years independent, Racial tension 1984, Minorities at Risk 1990, BERI average 1970-79, BERI average 1980-89, Knack and Keefer corruption 1980-89, Mauro corruption 1980-83, Population not speaking language, Separatist movements 1960, Separatist movements 1975
Saving and Investment Data (from Jones and Obstfeld's paper "Saving, Investment, and Gold: A Reassessment of Historical Current Account Data"; see also their data appendix and their zipped data)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Norway, Russia, Sweden, UK, and USA
- Variables Included: All Countries: GDP, capital formation, changes in stocks/inventories, current account data (from historical sources), nongold current account, net shipments or exports of gold, change in monetary gold stock, national accounts information, gold flows and monetary stock, and notes on data sources. Note: Australia and the USA include several additional variables.
Worker Power and the Effects of Productivity, Inflation, Unemployment, and Global Trade on Wages in Ten Wealthy Countries (from Volgy, Schwarz, and Imwalle's 1996 AJPS article; see also their codebook and Program Code)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: (list forthcoming)
- Variables Included: (list forthcoming)
Trade
My International Political Economy and International Organizations pages may also provide relevant information or data.
Kathy Barbieri's International Trade Data (includes data on both national-level and dyadic trade; you may also download the data directly)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: COW interstate system members, 1870-1992
- Variables Included: nation-level: year, COW country code, total trade (imports + exports); dyad-level: year, country codes, sum of dyadic trade (A imports from B + B imports from A)
Kristian Gleditsch's Expanded International Trade and GDP Data
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: Trade flows: 1948-2000, GDP: 1950-2000
- Variables Included:
IADB External Trade Database (for the Western Hemisphere, 1980-1998; includes export and import data split by several different sector/commodity classifications, although apparently without identifying specific trade partners)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain:
- Variables Included:
Trade Agreements Database (from Robert Pahre at Illinois)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain:
- Variables Included:
Trade Openness Data (from Jeffrey Sachs and Andrew Warner; an Excel spreadsheet indicating whether or not each country is considered to have trade openness in each year)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: all countries, 1950-1992
- Variables Included: GDP, trade openness (note that both of these variables are missing for many country-years, particularly in the 1950s and early 1960s)
Trade-Related Data (from economist Jon Haveman at Purdue)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: (unclear)
- Variables Included: (varies by data set)
Development
My International Political Economy and International Organizations pages may also provide relevant information or data.
World Development Indicators (from the World Bank; includes a subset of data tables from the printed publication, arranged in six categories:)
- World view (size of the economy,
development progress, gender differences, trends in long-term economic development and
structural change)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain:
- Variables Included:
- People (population, population
dynamics, labor force, unemployment, poverty, income distribution, education, health)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain:
- Variables Included:
- Environment (land use and
deforestation, agriculture, freshwater, water pollution, energy production and use, energy
efficiency and emissions, urbanization, traffic, air pollution)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain:
- Variables Included:
- Economy (growth and structure of
output, structure of demand, growth of consumption / investment, structure of consumption,
relative prices, central government finances, monetary indicators and prices, balance of
payments current account)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain:
- Variables Included:
- States and markets (credit /
investment / expenditure, stock markets, relative prices, exchange rates, defense expenditures,
arms trade, state-owned enterprises, power and communications, information, science and
technology)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain:
- Variables Included:
- Global links (integration
with the global economy, direction/growth of merchandise trade, primary commodity prices,
tariff barriers, aid flows)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain:
- Variables Included:
World Development Report (from the World Bank; includes data tables on size of the economy, quality of life, population and labor force, poverty, distribution of income / consumption, education, health, land use and agricultural productivity, water use, deforestation, and protected areas, energy use and emissions, economic growth, structure of output, structure of demand, central government finances, balance of payments / current account / international reserves, private sector finance, role of government in the economy, power and transportation, communications / information / science and technology, global trade, and aid / financial flows)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain:
- Variables Included:
Key Reference Tables (from the World Bank; includes data tables on population, GNP, GDP, and literacy)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain:
- Variables Included:
Development Data by topic (from the World Bank; includes indicators for the topics of agriculture, domestic finance, education, environment, governance, health and population, infrastructure, industry, international economics, labor and employment, macroeconomics and growth, poverty, private and public sector development, rural development, social development, transition, and urbanization)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain:
- Variables Included:
Country Development data (includes a variety of economic and demographic measures, available in separate PDF files for each country; most measures cover the late 1990s, although several go back further in time)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain:
- Variables Included:
African Development Indicators (from the World Bank; web site includes 18 tables from the larger publication, including population, GDP, banking, exports, forestry, debt, government finance, electric power consumption, labor force, and several others)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain:
- Variables Included:
Human Development Indicators (from the UNDP's Human Development Report Office; includes a wide variety of economic and demographic indicators for both developed and developing countries. See also a discussion of the Human Development Index (HDI), Human Poverty Index (HPI), Gender-related Development Index (GDI), and Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM), all of which are included here. Additional data may be available in earlier Human Development Reports on the same web site.)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain:
- Variables Included:
Trends in Developing Economies (from the World Bank, available through the CIESIN web site; includes a searchable interface form)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain:
- Variables Included:
OECD Statistics, Frequently Requested Statistics, The OECD in Figures.
- Spatial-Temporal Domain:
- Variables Included:
Joint BIS-IMF-OECD-World Bank external debt statistics (available in HTML, PDF, or Excel format, as well as in an online searchable database that extends back to 1990; includes bank loans, debt securities, Brady bonds, trade credits, bilateral loans, multilateral claims, international reserve assets, and summary statistics)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain:
- Variables Included:
UNICEF Statistical Profiles of Countries (individual statistic profiles of each country in the world)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: Most countries, current
- Variables Included:
Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers
My International Political Economy, International Conflict, and International Security pages may also provide relevant information or data.
SIPRI's Arms Transfer Data Base (a searchable interface allowing the user to request information on a particular arms exporter or importer; only covers one recent year, currently 1997)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain:
- Variables Included:
SIPRI's Military Expenditure Figures (links to graphs -- not quantitative data tables -- of military expenditures for each country)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain:
- Variables Included:
SIPRI's Arms Transfer Facts and Figures includes data tables and graphs on arms transfer-related topics, including leading suppliers (1994-8), leading recipients (1994-8), and aggregated data (1989-1998)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain:
- Variables Included:
SIPRI Military Expenditure Database (access to military expenditure series for 160 countries from 1988-present; requires free registration)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain:
- Variables Included:
SIPRI's list of the top 100 Arms Industry Companies includes company name, home state, sector, arms ales in recent years (both overall and as a percentage of total sales), profits, and employment)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain:
- Variables Included:
Discussion of general trends in military expenditures, arms transfer, and related topics (but without systematic data) can be found in the following SIPRI Yearbooks: 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, and 1994.
- Spatial-Temporal Domain:
- Variables Included:
World Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers reports are available for 1995, 1996, and 1997 (from the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, now part of the State Department)
- Table 1 (includes military expenditures, armed forces, GNP, CGE, and population, 1984-1994 and 1985-1995)
- Table 2 (includes arms transfer deliveries and total trade, 1984-1994, 1985-1995, and 1986-1996 (see note about 1996 revisions))
- Table 3 (includes cumulative arms transfer deliveries by supplier and recipient, 1992-1994, 1993-1995, and 1994-1996 (see note about 1996 revisions))
- Table 4 (includes arms transfers deliveries and agreements by supplier and recipient region, 1984-1994, 1985-1995, and 1986-1996 (see note about 1996 revisions))
- Table 5 (includes major weapons deliveries by supplier, recipient region, and weapon type, 1985-1995 and 1986-1996 part 1 and part 2 (see note about 1996 revisions))
- Spatial-Temporal Domain:
- Variables Included:
League of Nations Armaments Yearbook (from the Northwestern University library. This is part of an attempt to digitize League of Nations documents, and currently features the final two Armaments Yearbooks in GIF and PDF format; eventual plans include the digitization of the remaining yearbooks, back to the initial publication in 1924)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain:
- Variables Included:
Regional Economic Data
My International Political Economy and International Organizations pages may also provide relevant information or data.
Latin American Data (from US AID and LANIC at the University of Texas; includes a variety of economic, political, and social data for each Latin American country in the 1980s and 1990s)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela
- Variables Included: Regional Indicators, Democracy, Economy, Education, Environment, Foreign Assistance, Health, Investment, Nutrition, Poverty, Trade
Soviet Economic Data (from Easterly and Fischer; see also their abstract)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: USSR, 1928-1987; Soviet republics, 1970-1990
- Variables Included: GNP Western estimates, Capital stock-industry (official numbers), Capital stock-industry (Western estimates), Capital stock-Khanin, Capital stock-material sectors (official), Capital stock-whole economy, Labor force-industrial sector, Labor force-material sectors, Labor force-whole economy (western estimates), NMP-industrial sector (official), Value added-industrial sector (Western estimates), NMP-Khanin, NMP-official
Asian Development Bank (ADB) Regional Statistical Data (see also their country-level data collection)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: Asian states
- Variables Included: A variety of social, economic, and financial indicators.
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