For one country per issue, this has the foreign trade outlook, the country's market, distribution and sales channels, transportation, utilities, advertising and market research, credit, trade regulations, customs provisions, investment in the country, taxation, labor, sources for more information and a market profile. Updated every 3-4 years. These surveys discuss recent trends in prices, wages, trade, economic policy, etc. Each OECD member country is covered in a separate volume. Figures on population, employment, production, trade, economy, standard of living, consumption, market sizes, retailing, consumer expenditure, housing, health, education,culture, mass media, communications, travel and tourism.
Tables are comparable from one country to another and often give time series for a country as well.
General socio-economic statistics, statistics of basic economic activity by country and with a world summary. Updates the U.N. Statistical Yearbook. Provides 10-year series data with monthly or quarterly series for the most recent year. Each issue also has special feature tables. Annual has 35-year series data by country on exchange rates, international liquidity, bank reserves, life insurance, interest rates, prices, production, balance of payments, government finance and national accounts.