Economics Subject Guide

Download, graph, and track 825,000 US and international time series from 114 sources.

IDEAS is the largest bibliographic database dedicated to Economics and available freely on the Internet. Based on RePEc, it indexes over 4,900,000 items of research, including over 4,400,000 that can be downloaded in full text. RePEc is a large volunteer effort to enhance the free dissemination of research in Economics.

University of Michigan - Note you may only have access to the Open ECPSR data

Download, graph, and track 825,000 US and international time series from 114 sources.

American Bankers Association

The Factfinder was published on an irregular basis as a series of topical brochures to be used individually, in selected interest groupings, or as complete sets. Each brochure described the range of census materials available on a given subject and suggested some of their uses. The subjects included minority statistics, the availability of census records about individuals, population, housing and construction, retail and wholesale trade, selected services, manufactures, minerals, foreign trade, transportation, agriculture, governments, geographic tools, reference sources, and the history and organization of the Census Bureau.

"DataBank is an analysis and visualisation tool that contains collections of time series data on a variety of topics. You can create your own queries; generate tables, charts, and maps; and easily save, embed, and share them."

Data by Country or by Topics

International Monetary Fund (IMF) - The World Economic Outlook presents analyses and projections of the world economy in the near and medium term, which are integral elements of the IMF’s surveillance of economic developments and policies in its member countries and of the global economic system.

Indicators and data tools

Indicators, Dashboards, Insights, Tools, Methods, and Datasets.

"The OECD Economic Outlook presents the OECD’s analysis of the major short-term global economic trends and prospects. The Outlook provides projections across a range of variables for all member countries, the euro area, and selected non-member countries. Two Interim Economic Outlooks give a further update on annual GDP and inflation projections for G20 countries, the OECD, euro area and world aggregates."

Our World in Data is a project of Global Change Data Lab, a nonprofit based in the UK

The Microdata Library is a collection of datasets from the World Bank and other international, regional and national organizations

World Development Indicators (WDI) is the primary World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized international sources.

"The World Values Survey (WVS) is an international research program devoted to the scientific and academic study of social, political, economic, religious and cultural values of people in the world. The project’s goal is to assess which impact values stability or change over time has on the social, political and economic development of countries and societies.'