Political Science

The Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world.

The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research is one of the world's leading archives of social science data, specializing in data from surveys of public opinion.

The Statistical Abstract of the United States, published from 1878 to 2012, is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.

Search records from the U.S. Census for population, housing, economic, and geographic data.
Previously American Fact Finder

The aim of this site is to provide knowledge to democracy builders, provide policy development and analysis, and support democratic reform.

Provides a global center for data on international trade, national accounts, energy, industry, environment and demographic and social statistics gathered from national and international sources.

ICPSR provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for a diverse and expanding social science research community.

Provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.

The Yearbook is the principal reference work of the United Nations and provides a detailed overview of the Organization's concerns and activities for 1946-2014.

Provides data and reports to the UN on world populations.

Eurostat is the statistical office of the European Union tasked with providing statistics for comparing European countries and regions.

Provides in depth articles and reports on the economic conditions of countries.