Bureau of Labor Statistics
http://www.bls.gov/
All manner of statistics dealing with the labor force, earnings, and prices. EconomicStatistics Briefing Room
http://www.whitehouse.gov/fsbr/esbr.html
Easy access to current federal economic indicators.
SocialStatistics Briefing Room
http://www.whitehouse.gov/fsbr/ssbr.html
Easy access to statistics on crime, demographics,education and health.
FedStats
http://www.fedstats.gov/
More than 70 federal agencies produce statistics of interest to the public. The Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy maintains this site to provide access to the full range of statistics and information produced by these agencies for public use.
National Center for Health Statistics
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about.htm
Use FASTATS A-Z to access health statistics on topics ranging from the number of accidents to women's health.
National Center for Education Statistics
http://nces.ed.gov/
Data related to education in the United States and other nations.
Population Reference Bureau
http://www.prb.org/
Information on U.S. and international population trends and their implications. Includes the Ameristatdatabase, which provides demographic snapshots of the U.S. population.
STAT-USA ECU
http://www.stat-usa.gov/
Business, economic and trade data from the federal government. Includes the National Trade Data Bank.
State of the Cities Data Systems
http://socds.huduser.org/
Find specific cities' historical census data,current employment statistics, county business patterns, anc crime data.
Statistical Abstracts of the United States
http://www.census.gov/statab/www/
Statistical Resources on the Web
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stats.html
Links to hundreds of statistical files from a variety of sources, primarily governmental, divided by topic; from the University of Michigan Documents Center.
U.S. Census Bureau
http://www.census.gov/
Population, housing, income and economic census data. Use theAmerican Fact Finder, a new interactive database, to easily create customized tables about the place or industry you are researching. Use the ZIP Code Business Patterns utility to assess the business activity within a particular zip code (data include total number of establishments and number of establishments by employment-size classes by detailed industry). Numbers of firms in one zip code can be compared to other zip codes. Historical population and economic census information at the state and county level is available at the United States Historical Census Data Browser, a joint project of the University of Virginia and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. This project covers the years 1790 through 1970.
WISQARS(Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System) from CDC
http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/wisqars/
Mortality data, searchable by cause, region, sex,year, etc.
African Statistics on the Internet
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/statistics.html
An annotated guide to statistics and databases for Africa.
Eurostat
http://epp.eurostat.cec.eu.int/portal/page?_pageid=1090,1&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL
Statistics for European Community countries.
InfoNation from the United Nations
http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/infonation/e_infonation.htm
View and compare the most up-to-date geographic, social, demographic, and economic statistical data for the Member States of the United Nations.
International Database from the U.S. Census Bureau
http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/ipc/www/idbnew.html
The IDB contains statistical tables of demographic and socio-economic data for 227 countries and areas of the world. Users can specify the data element, country and time period they want to search.
PRB's 2005 World Population Data Sheet
http://www.prb.org/pdf05/05WorldDataSheet_Eng.pdf
PRB's 2005 World Population Data Sheet contains the latest population estimates, projections, and other key indicators.
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