INFORMATION RESOURCES

Country Statistics

 

ADB Statistical Database System (SBDS)
http://sdbs.adb.org:8030/sdbs/index.jsp
Online version of ADB’s Statistical Database System (SBDS), a key database of social, economic and financial indicators of its developing member countries.

Asia-Pacific in Figures
http://www.unescap.org/stat/data/apif/index.asp
Asia-Pacific in Figures from UNESCAP displays statistics for the year of 2004. Useful for those who need to know at a glance the basic features and trends in the region. Documents can be read only by PDF.

Census, by the UK government
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census/default.asp
Established by the United Kingdom government, it shows different themes of statistics including Ethnic group such as Asia and Pacific people in United Kingdom.

Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2006
http://www.unescap.org/publications/detail.asp?id=1150
The principal policy issues and challenges facing the region in 2006 are concerned with the course of oil prices, the threat of global external payment imbalances unwinding precipitously, the impact of higher interest rates and the potential for the avian influenza to develop into a human pandemic. Longer-term issues relate to the ongoing challenge of poverty reduction, utilizing the benefits of home remittances to simultaneously improve social indicators and macroeconomic fundamentals, and re-energizing the trade liberalization agenda following the Sixth World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference, held in Hong Kong, China, in December 2005. Readable only by PDF.

FAO Country Profiles and Information Systems
http://www.fao.org/countryprofiles/inventory.asp?lang=en
FAO country profiles on food and agriculture related topics including water resources, biotechnology, pasture, fishery, and forestry, etc.

Human Development Reports (HDR)-Statistics
http://hdr.undp.org/statistics/
Provides Human Development Index and other indices, and links to other background materials, data resources and on-going debates and discussions on human development statistics.

NationMaster-World Statistics, Country Comparisons
http://www.nationmaster.com/index.php
Provides comprehensive world statistics in different topics from various sources. Country profiles, maps, national flags, and encyclopedia are also available in the website.

OECD Statistics Portal
http://www.oecd.org/statsportal/0,2639,en_2825_293564_1_1_1_1_1,00.html Provides statistical and conference documents on different subjects, such as agriculture, education, Economics, national accounts, productivity, to mention but a few. Some documents are in MS Excel, and in PDF.

Statistical Resources
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/statsnew.html
Supported by University of Michigan, it gives an extensive list of links to many kinds of statistical data on the internet, indexed in categories from Agriculture to Weather.

UN National Trends in Population, Resources, Environment and Development
http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/countryprofile/profile.htm
Providing statistical data on population, land use, and development issues.

UNESCO Institute of Statistics
http://www.uis.unesco.org/
Provide access to global and internationally comparable statistics on education, science, technology, culture and communication.

UNICEF Monitoring and Statistics
http://www.unicef.org/statistics/index.html
The statistics contain key indicators relating to the Millennium Development Goals.

US Census Bureau-Asian and Pacific Islander Populations
http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/race/api.html
Provides yearly population statistics of Asian and Pacific Islanders living in United States. Subject-based statistics such as disability, income, and housing are also available to download. Some documents needed to be viewed by PDF.