Research Guides: *Economics: Data and Statistics

Economic Data Highlights

IMF Data This link opens in a new window
Economic data by country and year, including International Financial Statistics (IFS), Balance of Payments Statistics (BOPS), Direction of Trade Statistics (DOTS), and Government Finance Statistics (GFS) databases. IMF data is also available via UKDS.Stat.
FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data) This link opens in a new window
Economic time series data both U.S. and international sources. In Stata, use import fred command to import directly.
Sage Data This link opens in a new window
Data series from thousands of sources. Includes data from China Data Center.
IPUMS - CPS This link opens in a new window
Microdata from the Current Population Survey. Time period: 1962 to the present.
Finaeon This link opens in a new window
Financial and data series on US and UK Stocks, Eurostat, World Bank, and more. You must set up an academic account and then access is only to the GFDatabase listings except for the series Intraday Data supplied by Dow Jones.
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) This link opens in a new window
Social science data archive. Requires free registration

World Development Indicators (WDI) This link opens in a new window
Demographic, environmental, economic and social data by country and year. From the World Bank. Time period: 1960 to present.
Social Explorer This link opens in a new window
Demographic information and maps of the United States, from the Decennial Census and American Community Survey data. 1790-present

State Economic and Government Finance Data
Economic variables by state include 1) personal income (annual 1929-2014, quarterly; 1948q1-2015q1), 2) disposable income (annual 1948-2014), 3) gross state product (annual 1963-2014), 4) unemployment (annual 1960-2014, quarterly 1975q1-2015q3).
UN Comtrade
Detailed global trade data. Publication dates: 1962 - present.
Jordà-Schularick-Taylor Macrohistory Database
Macroeconomic data on 18 advanced economies since 1870 on an annual basis.

Mergent Online This link opens in a new window
Financials, equity pricing, and other data on over 10,000 NYSE, AMEX, and Nasdaq exchange companies, including SEC filings. Time period: Past 15 years
Sage Data This link opens in a new window
Look under Source > Sharadar.

These are not datasets themselves, but they might refer you to the dataset you need.