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Real Gross Domestic Product 2. Unemployment Rate 4. Initial Claims , on City Average 5 days ago. Federal Funds Effective Rate Dec 1. Unemployment Rate Dec 3. Market Yield on U. Inflation rates for countries Yearly dynamics of inflation is presented in one sheet.

Is price stability a common feature of the world economies? Is hyperinflation a disease that hurts some groups of countries more than others? Discover the answers to these and many other macroeconomics questions just analysing the real data. MS Excel 93 Food products price series for countries and The price of sugar, milk, meat and many more foodstuffs.

Ideal to compare price structures over countries and time. By transforming these local-currency data in dollars, you can test the " one price law ", according to which any good has the same price worldwide, after taken into account nominal exchange rates.

Comparing with world wages , you get the real purchasing power of people in food terms. PDF Origins and destinations in world trade - Trade flows over time. MS Excel. Daily time spent on different activities by employment status, sex, and age. MS Excel [19 KB]. Composition of public expenditure education, health, defence Currency crises, fixed exchange rates and wide fluctuations in a fully international perspective.

MS Excel Human development index countries Rich reports of reflections and data. Gain new insights in inflation tides and business cycles. SIPP free data allow the government to evaluate the effectiveness of federal, state, and local programs Download page Environmental taxes in 15 countries MS Excel Health and disease statistics worldwide Cocoa beans world prices - MS Excel [5 KB] Coffee world prices - Look at the difference in prices for consumers in importing countries and for growers in exporters country.

Seasonality analysis feasible, since they are monthly data. MS Excel [80 KB] Consumption expenditure by income classes A typical monthly expenditure structure for different consumption needs, differentiated by income classes of the households.

The confirmation of Engel's law of decreasing importance of food the higher the income is accompanied by a host of other interesting features. MS Excel Savings by income classes. Savings behaviors in the UK population and A commented overview of the micro-data results of a survey on savings rules. Over half of the respondents wish they had started saving earlier. Dynamics available thanks to a second survey in PDF [ KB] Data for all the variables in IS-LM model Comprehensive of 54 variables in long-term annual and quarterly time-series, this US dataset is excellent for students to test the model as well as for researchers to develop original reflections.

Useful both for microeconomics and industrial economics purposes. Data and use. Wages in New York A city wage distribution. MS Excel [79 KB] Wages for 22 jobs across all industries The wage distribution with means and medians for a huge number of jobs. How much does a lawyer earn?

How many times is he paid more than a food preparation worker? Discover wage inequality thanks to an authoritative US dataset. MS Excel [2. Long-term time-series from to This data set allows for comparison of wages across countries for the same job, over time, underlining the differences between skilled and unskilled works. October 31, at am.

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Trade Data Visualization. Country reports for all countries of the world can be found via the following link: Country Information. Each of these has a large statistical annex and can be accessed via the following link. Data and Statistics. A number of additional IMF datasets are available for free access on the IMF Data site, including data on international reserves, investment, financial soundness and financial access.

These can be searched by country, topic and data source. IMF data. The statistics section of the WTO site contains a number of databases and publications providing extensive access to trade and tariff data.

Trade and tariff data. There are several parts to the site. These include: data on Merchandise trade ; Commercial services ; Tariffs ; and two relatively new sections: Global value chains , which measures and analyses trade in value added, and Non-tariff measures.

There is also a section with trade maps, where countries are colour-coded on a world map by the values of six indicators. Trade maps.

There is also a data portal, which "contains statistical indicators related to WTO issues. Available time series cover merchandise trade and trade in services statistics, market access indicators bound, applied and preferential tariffs , non-tariff information as well as other indicators". Data portal. This "provides a detailed analysis of the latest developments in world trade".

For the latest volume see: World Trade Statistical Review series. This contains data on international trade, balance of payments including foreign direct investment FDI , inflation and exchange rates, commodity prices, GDP, population and labour, productive capacities, transport costs, the digital and creative economies, iron ore and maritime transport.

The Bank for International Settlements is "an international organisation which fosters international monetary and financial cooperation and serves as a bank for central banks".

From the hub part of the site you can access the websites of each of the world's central banks. Central bank websites. Central Bank Research Hub. There is also a substantial statistical section. It is the best source for data on nominal and real exchange rate indices. It uses narrow indices comprising 26 and 27 economies for the nominal and real indices, respectively with data going back to , and broad indices comprising 61 economies with data going back to In each case data are available in Excel format.

Alternatively you can download all the files as a single CSV file. BIS effective exchange rate indices. The statistical section also has data on cross-border lending and borrowing of banks: Locational banking statistics. It also has data on securities and derivatives. Also, every three years BIS conducts a global central bank survey of activity in the foreign exchange market. The results of the April survey were released in December You can also find details of the payments systems in each country, including data on money supply, total bank notes and coin issued, data on banks and other financial institutions including branches and value of accounts, cards issued, ATMs, transactions per type of payment instrument, number and value of securities and derivatives trades and many other indicators: Payments and financial market infrastructures.

This site gives data for the G countries and twelve others plus the eurozone and Hong Kong. It provides macroeconomic and financial data in tabular form for the 34 economies. You can access data by indicator or by country.

There is also a separate section with national data sources. Use the pull-down menu to select an economy: National Data Sources. As well as profiles of individual countries including their maps and flags, you can browse the data by topic, including education, economy, crime, mortality or health. The site offers a facility to create correlation reports and scatter-plots on the fly. From the home page you can select any of sectors grouped into nine categories such as Manufacturing and Financial Services.

There is also a search box at the top for sectors and statistics. Also at the bottom of the home page, you can use the pull-down menu in the 'More Statistics' section to access 26 categories of 'Top Stats', statistics for 33 groups of countries or 'Geographic Entities' such as the EU , the G7 and heavily indebted countries and 27 Other Sectors such as economy , industry and environment. There are country profiles for countries and geographical entities Country profiles.

Gapminder allows you to chart three indicators from a very large selection over time for most countries simultaneously, with data going back decades, or even centuries for some indicators. The charts allow you to see very easily the differences between countries: hence the title of the site! The following link takes you to Gapminder World. Gapminder World. The link above takes you to the default view, which is Chart View , where you can choose which indicator to put on each axis by clicking on each axis in turn and selecting from the drop-down list.

Each axis can be shown in linear or log mode. Each country is represented by a bubble, whose colour varies by continent. The size of the bubble gives the third indicator, whose default is the population size, but again you can use a drop-down menu bottom right or right under 'Find', depending on your browser to select this third indicator. The default is all countries, but you can select just one or more countries from a list on the right. The non-selected countries appear in faded colour.

You can use a slider to fade them out completely if you prefer. You can also track the path of your selected countries over time if you choose. An alternative view is the Map view click on Bubbles link at top left of screen. Each country bubble is positioned on a world map.

The size of the bubble gives one indicator. A second indicator can be shown by colour gradation of the bubbles. Again, you can select individual countries from the menu on the right. Other views include Income, Trends, Ranks, Ages and Spreadsheet again click on the menu at top left of screen. The site also has a range of videos which examine specific data.

Gapminder videos. If you don't mind that this information comes courtesy of the CIA, this is a very useful site, giving a host of economic and other data, country-by-country. Simply select a country from the 'Explore All Countries' link near the top of the page, or use the search box. The World Factbook.

Alternatively, you can compare countries by indicator. There are 70 indicators from which to choose, including 17 economic indicators. Datasets are clearly categorized by task i.

Who knows, you might even make a scientific discovery…. Want to demonstrate your ability to work with highly complex datasets? It offers access to over two petabytes of information, including datasets from the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator. In many cases, they even provide sample code to get you started thanks, CERN! Not strictly necessary, but definitely nice to have!