The UNDP page provides links to statistics, publications, latest news, and information of poverty, environment, governance, and gender. Their web site offers educational and communication statistics, a list of publications, current events, and the Universal Declaration for Human Rights. This web site contains the on line version of the 1995 and 1996 World Military Expenditure and Arms Transfer publication. The web site outlines the study's methodology, provides detailed country rankings, and lists sources from the survey. A page of links to national bureaus of statistics of 46 countries.
Some countries maintain social and political data in addition to economic and population data.
The Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan maintains this archive of data on education, elites and leadership, health care, political behavior, organizational behavior, social indicators, and related publications. The linkcontains the yearbooks from 1993 to 1997. Each on line yearbook contains the introduction, highlights, and chapter summaries which is available for download with Adobe Acrobat. The page also offers links to US statistical sites, searchable catalogs of data, data libraries and archives worldwide, and distributors and vendors for data for purchase. This web site allows you to search for data with a word or phrase.