ECON 162: Economics of Mexico: Country Statistics & Data Sources

The recent World Bank "Open Data" initiative has released scores of datasets and thousands of series for public use.

The primary World Bank database for development data from officially-recognized international sources is now augmented with external debt and financial flows statistics. This Contains over 1200 series dating as far back as 1960.

Alternative views of World Bank open data come from these new sites.

Portal to open World Bank data series by country, indicator, and topic, with expanded content, dynamic graphing, gradient maps, and widgets.

Includes African Development Indicators, Education Statistics, Gender Statistics, Global Economic Monitor, Health Nutrition Population Statistics, Joint External Debt Hub, Millennium Development Goals, Quarterly External Debt Statistics, and more.

Providing daily updates of global economic developments, with coverage of high income as well as developing countries. Daily data updates are provided for exchange rates, equity markets, interest rates, stripped bond spreads, and emerging market bond indices. Monthly data coverage (updated daily and populated upon availability) is provided for consumer prices, high-tech market indicators, industrial production and merchandise trade.

The top IMF data products remain on subscription, although now with an improved, consolidated interface.

Carries the flagship International Financial Statistics (IFS) database with exchange rates, balance of payments, money supply, total imports and exports, GDP, and much more. Also with Balance of Payments Statistics (BOPS), Direction of Trade Statistics (DOTS), Government Finance Statistics (GFS), and new foreign investment and financial soundness indicators.

These IMF data products are free.

Includes a spreadsheet file (CSV) with monthly data for 8 price indices and 49 actual price series from 1980.

The World Economic Outlook (WEO) database contains selected macroeconomic data series from the statistical appendix of the World Economic Outlook report, which presents IMF analysis and projections of economic developments at the global level, in major country groups, and for many individual countries.

Four databases are included in this package:
• China Premium Databases
“The China Premium Database offers over 326000 time-series records on macroeconomic, sector, industry and regional data dating back to 1949. The China Premium Database is available in both English and Chinese.”
• Brazil Premium Databases
“The Brazil Premium Database covers 13 macroeconomic and 13 industry growth sectors with unmatched coverage of the energy, biofuel, and automobile sectors. Regional data are also available for Brazil's 5 regions, all 27 states, and 6000 municipalities.”
• Global Database
• Daily Database

Global governance indicators spanning political, market, rule of law, public management, and socioeconomic themes.

Country food, agriculture, fisheries, land, and foresty statistics, including production, prices, and trade.

GFD provides some 6500 historical and current financial and economic data series from over 150 countries. Many series reach back with deep data runs to prior centuries. Easy graphing and downloading is available on the system.

Human Development Index, Gender Inequality Index, and Multidimensional Poverty Index composites and components for 195 countries.

Includes economically active population, employment and unemployment, hours of work, wages, labor cost, consumer price indices, occupational injuries, strikes and lockouts, household income and expenditure, and international labor migration.

This site presents the official data, definitions, methodologies and sources for more than 60 indicators to measure progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDS).

Interactive subscription database of OECD books, periodicals, and statistics. Country coverage includes members Mexico, Korea, and Japan. Additional non-member coverage for Brazil, China, Indonesia, India.

Detailed commodity imports and exports statistics by country, 1962-present.

Interactive database for merchandise trade (including by region and by product), international trade in services, foreign direct investment (stocks and flows), national accounts, balance of payments, exchange rates, commodities, debt, development assistance, remittances, international reserves, population and labor force, and maritime transport.

See also their FDI "Country Fact Sheets" with latest data in ready PDF releases.

Demographic, social, economic, environmental, and related statistics. Includes coverage of Millennium Development Goals (MDG), gender, social cohesion, sustainable development, and information and communication technologies (ICT).

Time series data for selected indicators covering demography, migration, education, health, poverty, gender, employment, economy, government finance, employment, transport, and environment. Includes data visualization features. Includes Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and related indicators for Asia and Pacific region.

Monitored sectors include economic activity and employment, trade, prices and wages, fiscal accounts and public debt, external accounts, money and banking, and financial markets. Coverage begins 1992. Formerly DATAINTAL, this site now includes more of the IADB data, covering topics like climate, social issues and more.

Provides country trade, tariff, and services (transportation, telecommunications, finance, insurance) profiles, plus interactive retrieval of international trade statistics.

Compiled by Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. IES simplifies the search for worldwide economic indicators, with links to individual series (such as GDP and CPI) for each country, as well as a detailed description of the data. Descriptions are searchable by title, country, subject, and keyword. The links are checked regularly to maintain accuracy. Indicators are continually added.

Compiled by U.S. Census Bureau.

From the Chronic Poverty Advisory Network. A listing of studies by country.

World Bank.

The Family Life Surveys (FLS) are a set of detailed household and community surveys of developing countries conducted by the RAND Corporation, in collaboration with research institutions in the given countries. The currently available country surveys cover Malaysia (1976-77, 1988-89), Indonesia (1993, 1997, 2000), Guatemala (1995), and Bangladesh (1996).

IPUMS-International is a project dedicated to collecting and distributing census data from around the world. Its goals are to:
Collect and preserve data and documentation
Harmonize data
Disseminate the data absolutely free.

IPUMS requires user registration for access.