"The World Factbook provides basic intelligence on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, environment, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 266 world entities."
Click on a country to see the facts and figures used to determine the UN's Human Development Index (HDI), the Inequality-Adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI), the Gender Development Index (GDI), the Gender Inequality Index (GII), the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), and the Planetary Pressures-Adjusted HDI (PHDI).
This gender data portal is a one-stop shop for gender information, catering to a wide range of users and providing data from a variety of sources. A good way to start is by selecting a country from the drop-down list (scroll past the regions to see the list of individual countries).
Development data from the World Bank and other international agencies. Because there are so many indicators available to choose from, try using the search box to find relevant indicators rather than browsing the whole list.
This website takes education-related data and allows comparisons between countries as well as between groups within a country (such as wealthy/poor, ethnic groups, and regions of the country).
"The Endangered Languages Project puts technology at the service of the organizations and individuals working to confront the language endangerment by documenting, preserving and teaching them. Through this website, users can...access the most up to date and comprehensive information on endangered languages as well as language resources being provided by partners."
