Datasets and Statistics

The American National Election Studies serves the research needs of social scientists, teachers, students, policy makers and journalists. This website produces high quality data from our surveys on voting, public opinion, and political participation.

The Annenberg Public Policy Center (University of Pennsylvania) conducts surveys and gathers data for research purposes. The policy center makes data sets available to scholars for academic research.

The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) is the preeminent source of statistics on commercial aviation, multimodal freight, and transportation economics.

The home of the U.S. Government’s open data
Here you will find data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, design data visualizations, and more.

Thousands of datasets from financial market data and population growth to cryptocurrency prices.

research arm of the Legislature principally concerned with forecasting economic and social trends that affect policy making, revenues, and appropriations.

An open access repository for sharing research in most subjects.

Since 1972, the General Social Survey (GSS) has provided politicians, policymakers, and scholars with a clear and unbiased perspective on what Americans think and feel about such issues as national spendi​ng priorities, crime and punishment, intergroup relations, and confidence in institutions.

Dataset Search is a search engine for datasets. Using a simple keyword search, users can discover datasets hosted in thousands of repositories across the Web

A searchable open source research data repository.

ICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 250,000 files of research in the social and behavioral sciences. It hosts 21 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.

Since the passage of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, the Office of Immigration Statistics has responsibility to collect and disseminate to Congress and the public data

These journals publish peer reviewed articles describing openly accessible datasets for future reuse.

Download Datasets from the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. It conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other empirical social science research.

The Statistical Abstract of the United States is the standard summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.

The Statistical Yearbook provides in a single volume a comprehensive compilation of internationally available statistics on social and economic conditions and activities, at world, regional and national levels, for an appropriate historical period. It is prepared by the Statistics Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, of the United Nations Secretariat.

USAspending.gov is the official source for spending data for the U.S. Government. Its mission is to show the American public what the federal government spends every year and how it spends the money.

Data.census.gov is the data dissemination platform to access demographic and economic data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

A research collaboration of more than two dozen analysts and scholars from across the political spectrum examining and delivering insights on the evolving views of American voters.

UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) provides statistics including African socio-economic indicators; African Statistical Yearbook; Integrated national and sub regional economic, social and environmental indicators; and, Compendium of intra-African and related foreign trade statistics.

Offers economic and poverty statistics of Asia and Pacific countries.

CAP enables scholars, students, policy-makers and the media to investigate trends in policy-making across time and between countries.

Provides statistics and opinion polls from countries in the European Union. World Economic data, visualizations, and stats on EU and EU members. Numerous Eurostat databases. Data by topic or member state

Data on voters and voting, political parties, and international electoral systems.

The Centre for Humanitarian Data is focused on increasing the use and impact of data in the humanitarian sector. It is managed by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

The International Data Base (IDB) was developed by the U.S. Census Bureau to provide access to accurate and timely demographic measures for populations around the world. The database includes a comprehensive set of indicators, as produced by the U.S. Census Bureau since the 1960s.

The mission of the OECD is to promote policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world. They provide data on multiple topics, including agriculture, economies, society, and health.

An aggregate of data from thousands of researchers around the world on current global problems including poverty, disease, hunger, climate change, war, existential risks, and inequality.

The PRB's mission is to inform people around the world about population, health, and the environment. They also empower people to use this information to advance the well-being of current and future generations.

SIAP aims to collect, analyze and disseminate statistics as well as to produce timely and high quality statistics that can be utilized for economic and social development planning.

SIPRI is an independent international institute dedicated to research into conflict, armaments, arms control and disarmament. Provides data and analysis on these topics.

UNdata brings international statistical databases within easy reach of users through a single-entry point. Users can search and download a variety of statistical resources compiled by the United Nations (UN) statistical system and other international agencies.

UNstats compiles and disseminates global statistical information, develops standards and norms for statistical activities, and supports countries' efforts to strengthen their national statistical systems.

The UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) is the official and trusted source of internationally-comparable data on education, science, culture and communication. Explore statistics by subject or country.

At the World Bank, the Development Data Group coordinates statistical and data work and maintains a number of macro, financial and sector databases.