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Economic Statistics

BigCharts
Provides access to interactive charts, quotes, industry analysis and intraday stock screeners, market news and commentary. Charts can be e-mailed. The Interactive Charting option allows users to select from seven different charting styles, modify visual effects, and use various technical analysis indicators on the same graph.
Bureau of Economic Analysis
From the U.S. Department of Commerce, provides data in four categories (National, International, Regional, Industry) called economic accounts. Includes access to the U.S. Economy at a Glance. BEA site updates are available via an RSS feed.
Economic Census
Profiles of American businesses, from the U.S. Census
Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED)
A database of over 20,000 U.S. economic time series, arranged by categories such as banking, business/fiscal, consumer price index (CPI), employment, and regional data. Data can be used in conjunction with information available in the Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRASER) and Archival Federal Reserve Economic Data (ALFRED) systems to create uninterrupted data series.
Global Distribution of Poverty
Poverty mapping project of the Center for International Earth Science Information Network. Subnational, spatially explicit, poverty data sets. These are available for selected proxy measures of poverty, at global and national scales.
Maryland Statistics
A guide for locating statistical sources on Maryland.
Penn World Tables 6.2
Provides "purchasing power parity and national income accounts" for 188 countries, with data covering some of or all the years 1950-2004. From the Center for International Comparisons of Production, Income and Prices at the University of Pennsylvania.
State of the Cities Data Systems (SOCDS)
From the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), this site provides access to datasets for individual Metropolitan Areas, cities, and suburbs, including demographic and economic characteristics.
United Nations Statistical Databases
Access point for UN Economic databases. Links to other demographic and environmental databases and data produced by the UN may be found from the main Economic Statistics page.
USDA Economics, Statistics and Market Information System
Reports and datasets produced by the US Department of Agriculture.
World Trade Organization
Information about international trade including policies and statistics. Publications of the WTO are accessible through the WTO Documents Online database.

Global Development Finance
UMD ONLY
From the World Bank; provides information for 129 developing economies worldwide. Data begins in 1970.
Balance of Payments Statistics
UMD ONLY
From the International Monetary Fund (IMF), summarizes, for a specific period, the economic transactions of an economy with the rest of the world. Reports total goods, services, factor income, and current transfers an economy receives from or provides to the rest of the world as well as capital transfers and changes in each economy's external financial claims and liabilities.
International Financial Statistics
UMD ONLY
From the International Monetary Fund, includes full-text statistical data from 1996-present.
World Development Indicators Online
Provides direct access to more than 550 development indicators, with time series for 200 countries and 18 country groups from 1960, where data are available. Data export options in Excel or ASCII.
World Economic Outlook
Free online database, updated biannually by the International Monetary Fund with coverage back to 1993. Similar to World Development Indicators in providing basic statistics, but more limited in both scope and history. Includes commodity price data and regional data not easily available in WDI.

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Economic Statistics