Research Guides: Online Sources of International Statistics: Crime / Education / Health / Social & Cultural

Transparency International
Data about corruption from the Global Coalition Against Corruption.
UN Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention
Crime statistics, research, and analysis.
US State Department: International Narcotics Control Strategy Reports
Includes individual reports on the 28 major drug producing and drug transit countries. 1996 to the present.
World Prison Brief
International Centre for Prison Studies. Information is provided on prison populations and prison population rates per 100,000 of the national population, on the use of imprisonment for women and juveniles, on the extent of pre-trial imprisonment and on prison overcrowding, as well as a record of the national ministries responsible for prisons and contact details for prison administrations.
Global Health Data Exchange
A catalog of global health and demographic data. Provides links to data providers and some actual data.
Global Health Policy - Kaiser Family Foundation
"Kaiser is a non-profit organization focusing on national health issues, as well as the U.S. role in global health policy."

EdStats
International education statistics from the World Bank.
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
Statistical data for cross-national comparisons of education.
UNESCO Literacy Statistics
Regional and national literacy rates.
UNESCO Education Statistics
From 1999 to the present.

WHO Global Health Observatory
World Health Organization. "The Global Health Observatory (GHO) is WHO's portal providing access to data and analyses for monitoring the global health situation. It provides critical data and analyses for key health themes, as well as direct access to the full database. The GHO presents data from all WHO programmes and provides links to supporting information."
HIV/AIDS Surveillance Database
US Census Bureau site with information on the AIDS pandemic and on the HIV seroprevalence (infection) in population groups in developing countries.
Pan-American Health Organization
Country Health Profiles, and Core Health Data.
UNAIDS
Joint United Programme on HIV/AIDS information and data.
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
Statistics on mortality, immunization, child malnutrition, adult literacy, water supply, sanitation, iodized salt use, and net primary enrollments and enrollments by gender, plus the full-text version of The State of the World's Children, and The Progress of Nations.

Ethnologue: Languages of the World
"An encyclopedic reference work cataloging all of the world’s 6,909 known living languages."
Pew Global Attitudes Project
"The Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Project conducts public opinion surveys around the world on a broad array of subjects ranging from people's assessments of their own lives to their views about the current state of the world and important issues of the day. More than 240,000 interviews in 57 countries have been conducted as part of the project's work."
UNESCO Reports: Culture and Communication
Data on books, broadcasting, films, and libraries.
World Values Survey
"he World Values Survey (WVS) is a worldwide network of social scientists studying changing values and their impact on social and political life. The WVS in collaboration with EVS (European Values Study) carried out representative national surveys in 97 societies containing almost 90 percent of the world's population. These surveys show pervasive changes in what people want out of life and what they believe."