Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

The World Factbook is a comprehensive resource of facts and statistics on more than 250 countries and other entities. [>]

Accurate information is provided concerning:

• Geography
• People

• population
• age structure
• population growth rate
• birth rate
• death rate
• net migration rate
• sex ratio
• infant mortality rate
• life expectancy at birth
• total fertility rate
• nationality
• ethnic groups
• religions
• languages
• literacy

• Government
• Economy
• Communications
• Transportation
• Military
• Transnational issues

The World Factbook is produced by the CIA's Directorate of Intelligence (DI), which provides timely (regularly updated), accurate and objective intelligence analyses on different countries.

Via the link "Country Listing", the available information on the different countries can be consulted.

Via the link "Appendixes", some more relevant information can be consulted, under which a listing of the major International Organisations and Groups, the Country Data Codes, an overview and the conversion of world-wide used Weights and Measures,…

U.S. Bureau of the Census

The International Programs Center (IPC), part of the Population Division of the U.S. Bureau of the Census, conducts demographic and socio-economic studies and strengthens statistical development around the world. Its work is commissioned and funded by federal agencies, international organisations, non-governmental organisations, private businesses, and other governments. For over 50 years, IPC has assisted in the collection, processing, analysis, dissemination, and use of statistics with counterpart governments throughout the world.

The International DataBase (IDB), accessible from the U.S. Census Bureau homepage via "People/International", is a computerised source of demographic and socio-economic statistics for more than 200 countries and areas (selected groups of countries) of the world. As such, the IDB provides quick access to specialised information with emphasis on demographic measures, dating back as far as 1950 and as far ahead as 2050. [>]

• Population projections by age and sex
• Vital rates, infant mortality, and life tables
• Fertility and child survivorship
• Migration
• Marital Status
• Family planning
• Ethnicity, religion, and language
• Literacy
• Labor force, employment, and income
• Households

Links to the homepages of the official International Statistical Agencies of most countries are given on the U.S. Census Bureau site as well. These are accessible from the U.S Bureau of Census Home page via the link "Related sites". [>]