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Statistics Canada Data
Search across census and other Statistics Canada data tables, articles, and other sources. Use the filters provided to focus your search.

odesi
A digital repository and data exploration, extraction and analysis stool for social science data, including polling data.
CANSIM
Canadian Socio-Economic Information Management System (CANSIM) is the Statistics Canada’s database of time series covering a wide variety of social and economic aspects of Canadian life.
Social Explorer
Mapping and data visualization tool for U.S. economic, election, crime, housing, income, and other demographic data. Also includes data from the Canadian census, UK census, European Statistics Data, and World Development Indicators.
China Data Online
Comprehensive statistical and economic data on China in English. Data is provided by Chinese government administrative bureaus and authorized by the China National Bureau of Statistics.

Canadian Public Policy Collection
Collection of monograph publications from Canadian public policy institutes, government agencies, advocacy groups, think-tanks, university research centres and other public interest groups.

World Bank Data
The World Bank provides data on economies and growth, external debt, the financial sector and more.
Global Consumption Database (The World Bank)
Provided by the World Bank’s Development Data Group, this resource compiles data on household consumption patterns in developing countries. Several sectors of household consumption are covered in the database, including energy, health, financial services, and education.

IMF E-Library
The International Monetary Fund publishes a vast amount of information on its own activities and policies, as well as on its 186 member countries.

UNCTADStat
An integrated treatment of trade and development and the interrelated issues in the areas of finance, technology, investment and sustainable development, UNCTAD compiles, validates and processes a wide range of data collected from national and international sources.
UN Data
Search and download a variety of statistical resources compiled by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and other international agencies. Covers a wide range of statistical themes including agriculture, crime, communication, development assistance, education, energy, finance, etc.
FAOStat
The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) database. Provides free access to food and agriculture data, including production, employment, trade, investment, food security, price indices, emissions, and agri-environmental indicators.
OECD Stat
Includes data and metadata for OECD countries and selected non-member economies. OECD.Stat enables users to search for and extract data from across many databases under different themes such as agriculture and fisheries, development, economic projections, education and training, energy, environment, finance, globalisation, health, national accounts, productivity, regional statistics, social and welfare, etc.
ILOStat
The International Labour Organization is the world’s leading source on labour statistics.