External links

General links

• CIA - The World factbook

• ESS - European Statistical System

• Eurostat

• Gapminder

• Google Public Data Explorer

• NationMaster

• OECD - Statistics Portal

• StatNord

• The Nordic Statbank

• UNdata

• UNSD - Statistical Databases

• World Bank - Data

Agriculture, forestry, hunting and fishing

• European Commission, Agriculture

• Eurostat - Agriculture statistics

• Eurostat - Forests

Banking and financial markets

• Bank for International Settlements (BIS)

• European Central Bank (ECB)

  Euro foreign exchange reference rates, monetary aggregates, MFI interest rates, government finance.

• European Commission, Economy and Finance

• European Commission, Economy and Finance

• International Monetary Fund (IMF)

  The IMF publishes a range of time series data on IMF lending, exchange rates and other economic and financial indicators.

• Joint External Debt Hub (JEDH)

Construction, housing and property

• International Union of Tenants - Facts and figures

Culture and recreation

• Adherents.com

• Eurostat - Culture statistics

• Nordic Information Centre for Media and Communications research (NORDICOM)

• UNESCO

Education

• EdStats / World Bank

  The EdStats Query holds over 2000 internationally-comparable education indicators from various sources for over 200 countries and regional/income group aggregates.

• Eurydice

  The Eurydice Network provides information on and analyses of European education systems and policies.

• Ministry of Education and Reseach

• OECD Education

• OECD Statistics Portal

  Education and Training.

• Studies in Innovation, Research and Education (NIFU STEP)

• UNESCO

  Cross-nationally comparable statistics on education, science and technology, culture, and communication for more than 200 countries and territories.

• United Nations Cyberschoolbus

  The online education component of the Global Teaching and Learning Project, whose mission is to promote education about international issues and the United Nations.

Elections

• Election resources on the Internet

  Links to Internet sites around the world which provide national and local election statistics.

• Eurobarometer

• European election database

  Comparative research on elections in Europe

• EUROSTAT. Voter turnout in national parliamentary elections

  Voter turnout in national and EU parliamentary elections

• IPU: Parline database on national parlaments

  The PARLINE database contains information on the structure and working methods of 267 parliamentary chambers in all of the 190 countries where a national legislature exists.

Energy and manufacturing

• British Petroleum

• British Petroleum (BP) - Statistical review

• EU Commission, Oil bulletin

• European Commission, Energy

• European Commission. Energy. Market Observatory

• Eurostat - Energy statistics

• International Energy Agency

• International Energy Agency (IEA) - Statistics & balances

• International Iron & Steel Institute

• Joint Oil Data Initiative

External economy

• European Commission. Trade Issues

• Eurostat External Trade

• FAO

• UN Comtrade

• UNCTAD

• UNCTAD/WTO International Trade Centre

• World Integrated Trade Solution (WITIS)

• World Trade Organization - Statistics database

Health

• Global health facts

• Global Health Observatory (GHO)

  The Global Health Observatory provides data and analyses on global health priorities.

• HIV InSite

• NOMESCO

• Norwegian Directorate for Health

• OECD Health Data

• The Medical Birth Register in The Norwegian Institute of Public Health

• The National Health Monitoring System in the Norwegian Institute of Public Health

• UNAIDS

• World Health Organization (WHO) - Data and statistics

• World Health Organization (WHO) - Regional office for Europe

Immigration and immigrants

• Eurostat - Population statistics

• Migration Policy Institute - Country and Comparative Data

• OECD - Migration databases

• The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) - Statistics and Operational Data

Income and consumption

• Norwegian Tax Administration

Labour market and earnings

• Eurostat - Health and safety at work

• Eurostat - Labour market including the Labour Market Survey (LMS)

• ILO - Statistics and databases

• OECD - Employment Database

• OECD - Labour statistics

National accounts and business cycles

• UN. National Accounts

• UNECE Statistical Database

  Comparable data for Europe, North America and Central Asia within economics, gender, transport, migration, Millennium Development Goals.

Nature and the environment

• EM-DAT : The international disaster database

  EM-DAT contains essential core data on the occurrence and effects of over 18,000 mass disasters in the world from 1900 to present.

• European Environmental Agency

  European environmental datasets, maps, charts and applications.

• European Topic Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production

  Comparable data and information on resource and waste management.

• Greenhouse Gas Inventory Data

  The UNFCCC data interface provides a vast multitude of data. Data can be displayed for individual Parties or groups of Parties, for different greenhouse gases or for their sum, and in varying degrees of detail.

• Rimfrost

  Temperature development on earth the last 250 years, CO2 emissions since 1950 for 150 contries, Ice data time series for harbours, rivers and lakes on three continents.

• The World's Water

  Information on the world's freshwater resources.

• UNEP Environmental Data Explorer

  The database holds more than 500 different variables, as national, subregional, regional and global statistics or as geospatial data sets (maps), covering themes like Freshwater, Population, Forests, Emissions, Climate, Disasters, Health and GDP.

• World Resources Institute

  WRI is a global environmental think tank. Available datasets: international GHG emissions, UNFCCC submissions, indicators of vulnerability and adaptation

Population

• CEPALSTAT

  Latin America and The Caribbean Statistics

• City population

• Demographic and health surveys

• European Forum for Geostatistics - Geostatistics at Statistics Norway

• Eurostat - Population statistics

• Genderstats

• Human Development Report / UNDP

  Features the Human Development Index, the Gender Inequality Index, the Multidimensional Poverty Index.

• INED - Population in figures

• Nordic Major City Statistics

• Nordisk statistisk årsbok

• OECD - StatExtracts: Population

• Population Reference Bureau - Datafinder

• Population, health and socioeconomic indicators / UNFPA

  The data sets in this resource offer the latest international population statistics and social, economic and health indicators by developing country and region.

• PROMINSTAT

• U.S. Bureau - International Programs Data

• U.S. Census Bureau - International Database

• UN - Demographic and Social Statistics

• UN. Statistics Division. Demographic and Social Statistics

• UN.Population statistics

• UNHCR

• UNICEF

• United Nations - Demographic yearbook

• United Nations - Population Estimates and Projections Section

• United Nations - Population Information Network (POPIN)

• UrbanInfo

• World Gazetter

Prices and price indices

• EIA. Weekly Europe (UK) Brent Blend Spot Price FOB

• EIA. World crude oil prices

• EUROSTAT. Prisnivå og kjøpekraftspariteter

• International Coffee Organisation

• International Comparison Programme (ICP)

  A worldwide statistical partnership to collect comparative price data and compile detailed expenditure values of countries’ gross domestic products (GDP), and to estimate purchasing power parities (PPPs) of the world’s economies.

• OECD Purchasing Power Parities

• Prices and Earnings. A comparison of purchasing power around the globe

• Prices and wages / International Institute of Social History

Public sector

• Government.no

• Homepage of Norwegian Customs and Excise

• Norad - Norwegian aid statistics

• Nordic fire statistics

• OECD Public Sector, Taxation and Market Regulation

  Statistics and publications.

• OECD Tax Database

Social conditions, welfare and crime

• European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction

  Monitoring and analysing the nature and scale of the drugs phenomenon in Europe.

• Ministry of Justice and Public Security

• Nordic Social-Statistical Committee

  Social Protection in the Nordic Countries.

• The Correctional Service of Norway Staff Academy (KRUS)

• The Higher Prosecution Authorities

• The Norwegian Correctional Service

• The Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV)

• Transparency International

  Transparency International seeks to provide reliable quantitative diagnostic tools regarding levels of transparency and corruption at the global and local levels.

• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

  One of the key tasks of UNODC is to produce and disseminate accurate drugs and crime statistics at the international level.

• United Nations Social Indicators

  Social indicators covering a wide range of subject-matter fields are compiled by the Statistics Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, from many national and international sources.

• World Income Inequality Database

  The UNU-WIDER World Income Inequality Database (WIID) collects and stores information on income inequality for developed, developing, and transition countries.

Svalbard

• Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme

  Information on the status of, and threats to, the Arctic environment.

• ArcticStat

  ArcticStat is a permanent, public and independent statistical database dealing with the countries, regions and populations of the Circumpolar Arctic.

• Governor of Svalbard

  The Governor of Svalbard is the Norwegian government's supreme representative in the archipelago.

• NILU polar portal

  NILU monitors a comprehensive set of atmospheric parameters at the three polar observatories.

• Norwegian Polar Institute

  The Norwegian Polar Institute is active within the fields of scientific research, mapping and environmental monitoring in the Arctic and Antarctica.

• Store Norske Group

  Store Norske operates coal mines on Svalbard.

• UNIS - The University Centre in Svalbard

  The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) is the world's northernmost institution for higher education and research, located in Longyearbyen, Spitsbergen.

Technology and innovation

• International Telecommunication Union

  World telecommunication and ICT indicators database.

• ISC Domain Survey

  The Domain Survey attempts to discover every host on the Internet by doing a complete search of the allocated address space and following links to domain names.

• Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education

  National R&D statistics for Norway, statistics on doctoral degrees in the Nordic and the Baltic countries.

• Science & Technology Indicators for Norway

  The report describes and documents the Norwegian research and innovation system. It is based upon the results from the national R&D and Innovation surveys as well as other statistics and studies.

Transport and tourism

• EU-kommisjonen, Car prices

• European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA)

• European Commission, Mobility & Transport

• Institute of Transport Economics

• International Transport Forum

• International Transport Forum

• International Union of Railways

• Ministry of Transport and Communications

• Norwegian National Rail Administration

• Norwegian Railway Inspectorate

• NSB

• Shipping Facts

• The Norwegian Public Roads Administration

• Transport at Eurostat

• UNCTAD Review of Maritime Transport

• World Tourism Organization (WTO)