Country Profiles & Data

This World Health Organization abstract database focuses on developing regions. Search results can be limited to six regions (the Americas, Europe, Western Pacific, Southeast Asia, Africa, and the Eastern Mediterranean). Many abstracts link to PubMed Linkout .

The Human Mortality Database (HMD) contains original calculations of death rates and life tables for national populations (countries or areas), as well as the input data used in constructing those tables. The input data consist of death counts from vital statistics, plus census counts, birth counts, and population estimates from various sources.

The data in the Human Mortality Database (HMD) are provided free of charge, however, you must become a registered user in order to gain full access. New users can register here.

Balance of Payments Statistics (BOP) includes over 100,000 quarterly and annual time series data on total goods, services, factor income, and current transfers an economy receives from or provides to the rest of the world; capital transfers and changes in each economy's external financial claims and liabilities; tables featuring area and world totals of balance of payments components and aggregates. 

See also IMF E-Library, International Financial Statistics (IFS), Government Finance Statistics (GFS) , and Direction of Trade Statistics (DOT).

Government Finance Statistics (GFS) includes data on government financial operations for 145 IMF member countries such as revenue, expenses, transactions in nonfinancial assets and financial assets and liabilities. 

See also: 
IMF E-Library, International Financial Statistics (IFS) , Balance of Payment Statistics (BOP) ,and Direction of Trade Statistics (DOT) .