Economic Resources
Aggregated datasets and statistics concerning economies past, present, and future:
- Statista
Free registration gives access to core basic economic and social statistics including downloadable and embeddable charts.
- American FactFinder
Contains census fact sheets for cities and zip codes as well as the American Community Survey results that offer social characteristic data.
- Bureau of Labor Statistics
From the federal government, this site includes the Occupational Outlook Handbook, the Consumer Price Index, and Real Earnings reports, as well as economic statistics for the nation and for states.
- Bureau of Economic Analysis
Source of U.S. economic statistics including national income and product accounts (NIPAs), gross domestic product (GDP), and related measures of national, regional, industry and international accounts.
- Eurostat
European Union's statistical office.
- Vizala
Country, demographic, social, and economic data.
- Federal Reserve Economic Data
Provides historical U.S. economic and financial data, including daily U.S. interest rates, monetary and business indicators, exchange rates, balance of payments and regional economic data.
- Statistical Abstract of the U.S
A comprehensive collection of statistics in tabular format. Includes basic statistics for a wide range of economic indicators. Each table lists the source of the statistics for further reference.
- Survey of Current Business
This resource provides data on U.S. business at the regional, national, and international levels. Among statistical series covered are personal income, inventories and sales, national income and product accounts, foreign direct investment in the U.S., U.S. direct investment abroad, international transactions, and gross state product.
- Business Dynamics Statistics (US Census)
measures of establishment openings and closings, firm startups, job creation and destruction by firm size, age, and industrial sector, and several other statistics on business dynamics, from 1976-2010.
- LABORSTA from the International Labour Office
Labor data for 200 countries, from 1969 to the present
- Business and Industry Census Database
Manufacturing, retail, services, construction, and other industries - historical financial and other indicators - some monthly.
- UN COMTRADE
More than 1.75 billion records of international merchandise import-export trade data starting from 1962.
- Penn World Table
Purchasing power parity and national income accounts converted to international prices for 189 countries/territories 1950-2010.
- World Wealth & Income Database
Most extensive available data series on the world distribution of income and wealth. Sourced by a team of economists including T. Piketty.
- Longitudinal Business Database from the US Census
Census of business establishments and firms in the U.S. with paid employees comprised of survey and administrative records.
- Bank for International Settlements
International banking, derivatives, securities, exchange rates, debt, etc.
- UNData
From the United Nations - Agriculture, Crime, Education, Employment, Energy, Environment, Health, HIV/AIDS, Human Development, Industry, Information and Communication Technology, National Accounts, Population, Refugees, Tourism, Trade, as well as the Millennium Development Goals indicators.
- Commodity prices - World Bank
Historical and current data for over 70 series.
- Yahoo Finance
Daily, weekly, monthly historical prices for stocks, funds, indexes.
- National Bureau for Economic Research
Many historical datasets of all kinds used by the NBER, such as "the 1947-2005 quarterly job flow series for US Manufacturing."
- OANDA Foreign Exchange Rates
Daily rates for 164 currencies (and gold, silver and platinum) from1990 to the present.
- U.S. Historical Climatology Network
Daily and monthly climate observations.
- Kenneth French data library
The data made available here give historical returns for various industry, country, and index portfolios.