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UN Comtrade

Description

UN Comtrade is a repository of official international trade statistics and relevant analytical tables. The database is updated regularly with either new additions or revisions and span as far back as 1992. There are also other publications that have other datasets (e.g., historical data for select countries). UN Comtrade includes data on climate change indicators, trade statistics, value of imports and exports.

Climate change indicators Trade statistics Value of imports and exports Yearly Global
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International Monetary Fund (IMF) - International Finance Statistics

Description

International Financial Statistics (IFS) is a standard source of international statistics on all aspects of international and domestic finance. It reports, for most countries of the world, current data needed in the analysis of problems of international payments and of inflation and deflation, e.g. data on balance of payments, exchange rates, international liquidity, international banking, money and banking, interest rates, prices, production, international transactions, national accounts, and assets and liabilities.

Financial Daily Monthly Quarterly Yearly Global
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International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Direction of Trade Statistics (DOTS)

Description

The Direction of Trade Statistics (DOTS) presents the value of merchandise exports and imports as disaggregated according to a country's primary trading partners. Area and world aggregates are included in the display of trade flows between major areas of the world. Imports are reported on a cost, insurance, and freight (CIF) basis and exports are reported on a free on board (FOB) basis - with the exception of a few countries. (Missing or unavailable data has been replaced by estimates). Monthly and quarterly data are available starting from 1960 (annual data are available starting 1947).

Imports and exports Trade Yearly Global
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International Labour Organization (ILO) - LABORSTA

Description

ILOSTAT is a database operated by the ILO Department of Statistics which has data and metadata on labour statistics for over 200 countries or territories. The databases cover household income and expenditure statistics, economically active population, employment, unemployment, employment (or labour force) by detailed occupational group and sex, obtained from population censuses or labour force surveys, comparable employment and unemployment estimates, public sector employment, hours of work, wages, labour productivity and costs, labour income and inequality, social protection, the informal economy, as well as information on youth, women, migrant workers and volunteers.

Labour/employment Daily Monthly Quarterly Yearly Global
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International Grain Council (IGC) - Grains and Oilseeds Index (GOI)

Description

The International Grains Council (IGC) is an intergovernmental organization that seeks to further international cooperation in grains trade; promote expansion, openness and fairness in the grains sector; and contribute to grain market stability and to enhance world food security. Grains, rice and oilseeds market conditions are monitored on a daily basis and made available through daily reports and web-based information services. Data monitored includes market information (price index) as well as export prices of grains (wheat, maize, barley, soyabeans, rice) and oilseeds, global supply and demand, freight rates, and five-year global projections.

Grain Yearly Global
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Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Description

FAOSTAT provides access to over 3 million time-series and cross-sectional data related to food and agriculture, including data on crops, fertilizers (by product), food supply, forestry production and trade, land use, live animals, livestock primary, production indices, and food security indicators. FAOSTAT contains data for 200 countries and more than 200 primary products and inputs in its core data set.

Food and agriculture Daily Yearly Global
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Bank for International Settlements (BIS)

Description

The Bank for International Settlements provides economic and financial indicators, incuding banking statistics, debt security statistics, derivative statistics, global liquidity indicators, credit statistics, debt service ratio, property prices, consumer prices, exchange rates, central bank policy rates, payments and financial market infrastructures.

Financial Daily Weekly Yearly Global
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UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) - INDSTAT

Description

The INDSTAT database of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) contains time series data on employees, establishments, output, value added, wages and salaries for the period covering 2007 - 2011. The data are arranged at the 3- and 4-digit level of ISIC (Revision 3) pertaining to the manufacturing sector, which comprises 151 manufacturing categories.

Employment Wages Quarterly Yearly Global
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Google Covid-19 Community Mobility Reports

Description

Community Mobility Reports aim to provide insights into what has changed in response to policies aimed at combating COVID-19. The reports chart movement trends over time by geography, across different categories of places such as retail and recreation, groceries and pharmacies, parks, transit stations, workplaces, and residential.

Traffic & Mobility Daily Monthly Yearly Global
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GDELT (Global Database of Events, Language and Tone)

Description

Monitors the world’s broadcast, print, and web news from nearly every corner of every country in over 100 languages and identifies the people, locations, organizations, counts, themes, sources, emotions, counts, quotes, images and events driving our global society every second of every day. Since 1 January 1979. The dataset provides a summary of global online news media coverage relating to the user's search. The summary is updated every 15 minutes.

News & Social Media Minutes Daily Monthly Yearly Global
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