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Flightradar24 is a global flight tracking service that provides real-time information about thousands of aircraft around the world. Flightradar24 tracks 180,000+ flights, from 1,200+ airlines, flying to or from 4,000+ airports around the world in real time. The dataset includes information on commercial flights (commercial passenger flights, cargo flights, charter flights, some business jet flights) and total flights (commercial flights above, rest of business jet flights, private flights, gliders, most helicopter flights, most ambulance flights, government flights, some military flights, drones).

AIS data is collected at several places around the world from land-based stations and satellites. Allowing for real-time geo-tracking and identification for equipped vessels, the AIS data promises to map and describe certain marine human activities. The automatic identification system (AIS) is a tracking system for ships, originally developed for collision avoidance. In the recent years, it is also used for analyses from various fields. The data is automatically transmitted every few seconds over very high frequency (VHF) radios from approximately 100,000 vessels worldwide.

The database contains data as far back as 1946, up to the year t-1, with data for most countries available from the 1970s. The database covers not only national accounts main aggregates such as gross domestic product, national income, saving, value added by industry and household and government consumption expenditure and its relationships, but also detailed statistics for institutional sectors (including the rest of the world), comprising the production account, the generation of income account, the allocation of primary income account, the secondary distribution of income account, the use of disposable income account, the capital account and the financial account, if they are compiled by countries.

The World Development Indicators (WDI) is the statistical benchmark that helps measure the progress of development. The WDI provides a comprehensive overview of development drawing on data from the World Bank and more than 30 partners. The World Development Indicators (WDI) publication is the World Bank's premier annual compilation of data about development. The complete WDI database includes more than 1,200 indicators.

The World Bank's TCdata360 provides open data on trade and competitiveness. The site aggregates and visualizes data from multiple sources and presents it in tandem with other knowledge and resources. It currently features 2,400 indicators extrapolated from a collection of other data sources (including the WEF, WTO, ITC, OECD, and IMF). It includes multiple (trade) indicators related to trade outcomes, trade barriers, trade facilitation, e-trade, connectivity, competition and competition policy, etc.

The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Inventory Data contains data on greenhouse gas emissions covering the period from 1990 to the latest available year, to the extent the data have been provided. The GHG data contain information on anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of the following GHGs (carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), perfluorocarbons (PFCs), unspecified mix of HFCs and PFCs, sulphur hexafluoride (SF6) and nitrogen triflouride (NF3)) that are not controlled by the Montreal Protocol.

The World Tourism Organization's Compendium of Tourism Statistics and Yearbook of Tourism Statistics provide comprehensive information on international tourism worldwide and offer a selection of the latest available statistics on "arrivals of non-resident tourists/visitors" and "tourism expenditure".

The National Accounts Estimates of Main Aggregates database consists of a complete and consistent set of time series, from 1970 onwards, of the main National Accounts aggregates of all UN Members States and other territories in the world for which National Accounts information is available. Its contents are based on the official data reported to UNSD through the annual National Accounts Questionnaire, supplemented with data estimates for any years and countries with incomplete or inconsistent information. Estimates are done when no official data are available. Data available include GDP by type of expenditure, Gross Value Added by kind of economic activity, GNI, annual per capita GDP and GNI, annual growth rates of GDP, annual shares in total GDP and total Gross Value added, and price trends.

The United Nations Industrial Commodity Statistics Database provides annual statistics on the production of major industrial commodities by country (ores and minerals, electricity, gas, water; food products, beverages, tobacco, textiles, apparel and leather products; machinery and equipment; metal products). Data are provided in terms of physical quantities as well as monetary value. The online database includes dagta starting in 1995. Additional historical data is available on request, based on a different product list, for the years 1950-2003.

The Energy Statistics Database of the UN Statistics Division (UNSD) contains comprehensive energy statistics on the production, trade, conversion and final consumption of primary and secondary; conventional and non-conventional; and new and renewable sources of energy. The Energy Statistics dataset, covering the period from 1990 onwards, is available at UNdata. For data prior to 1990, please refer to http://unstats.un.org/unsd/energy/edbase.htm.