Country Information
- BBC News Country Profiles -- supplies information on the history, economy, and politics of countries and territories as well as maps, facts, and current leaders. Each profile includes links to news items on that country that have appeared on the BBC network.
- Countryrisk.com -- provides links to sites giving country background information, statistics, and country analysis resources that rate everything from levels of corruption to investment risks in countries worldwide.
- Country Studies -- each study provides a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world. At present, 101 countries and regions are covered spanning the decade 1988-98. Search engine can be used to find information across all countries or any combination of countries.
- Economist Intelligence Unit [EIU] Country Reports -- a source of business intelligence on political and economic trends in 180 countries. An overall profile of each country is provided annually and a current report is produced quarterly. Both include current detailed statistics.
- Foreign Information by Country -- compiled by the University of Colorado Libraries, this site provides links to government agencies, background information, diplomatic relations, and other resources by topic for all of the countries of the world.
- Human Development Report Country Factsheets -- site contains country-level data available for review and download from the United Nation's annual Human Development Report.
- Index of Economic Freedom -- a site sponsored by the Heritage Found that measures ten components of economic freedom, assigning a grade in each using a scale from 0 to 100, where 100 represents the maximum freedom. The ten component scores are then averaged to give an overall economic freedom score for each of 183 countries studied. For the first time, the 2009 edition also analyzes regions to showcase the freest economies in every part of the world.
- Library of Congress Country Studies Area Handbooks -- provides extensive information on over 91 countries, describing and analyzing political, economic, social, and national security systems and institutions, and examining the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors. and includes photographs, maps, and charts.
- Portals to the World -- contains links providing authoritative, in-depth information about the nations and other areas of the world. They are arranged by country or area with the links for each sorted into a wide range of broad categories. Sites are selected by subject specialists at the Library of Congress.
- Worldwide Governments on the WWW -- one of the most extensive lists of international, national, regional, and local governmental and government-related Web servers. It covers governmental institutions on the Web, including parliaments, ministries, offices, law courts, embassies, city councils, public broadcasting corporations, central banks, multinational organizations, and political parties. Arranged in a hierarchical index organized by continent, country, and smaller divisions with thematic groupings such as heads of states, parliaments, political parties, elections, and currency.
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