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UN organization focusing on distributing food to those in need during times of natural disasters and conflict.

Provides statistics on food production, consumption, trade and undernourished peoples.

Collection of data on crops, livestock, farm labor and prices of commodities.

Access to agricultural statistics of Virginia, including county level information.

Vast database covering domestic and international terrorist attacks from 1970 to 2011. Searching can be done by date, region, country, perpetrator group, weapon type, attack type or target type.

International reports and statistics on international crime and drug activities.

Find statistics and reports on crime rates & trends, victim characteristics, offender characteristics, incarceration rates, etc.

Annual statistics of crime in Virginia including rates of offenses, arrests, number of police, etc.

Basic crime rates of Virginia for the last forty years.

Collection of statistics on enrollment, number of graduates, information on teachers, financing of schools, etc.

Provides statistics on education expenditures, projects, attainment and reports by country.

Definitive source of US education statistics for primary, secondary and higher education systems.

Compilation of Virginia education statistics and reports on Virginia schools.

Find energy statistics for developed and developing countries such as energy use, energy sources, use per capita, etc.

Official site of US-related energy statistics including energy sources, energy use by building type, environment and historical data.

Energy statistics for Virginia from the EIA.

Access to a variety of databases on international health indicators, diseases, health and country health profiles.

Development indicators for developing & high-income countries

Definitive resource of US health statistics.

Provides information on Virginia's vital statistics, health reports, marriage/divorce statistics, popular baby names, etc.

Find population statistics and graphs for every country in the world, including population pyramids, projections & rankings.

Digital versions of all US decennial census from the very first to the most recent.

Provides demographic and other information on cities throughout the world.

Ranking of the levels of corruption in 180 countries determined by experts and surveys from Transparency International.

Reports on indicators for 212 countries focusing on accountability, political stability, government effectiveness, rule of law and control of corruption.

Public opinion attitudes and experiences regarding corruption in dozens of countries from Transparency International

Measures the likelihood firms based in the developed world to pay bribes to operate from Transparency International.

Directory and search engine of web resources providing global and foreign country economic statistics.

Current economic trends along with economic, financial, and commodity data indicators

Statistics and reports of US economic information such as GDP, personal income, trade statistics, state-level economic information, and industry analysis.

Provides information on US consumer habits and behaviors.

Focuses on current elections, but includes previous elections back to 1998. Developed by a non-profit International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES), the world's premiere election assistance organization.

Most comprehensive global collection of political participation statistics available, covers presidential & parliamentary elections, numbers of registered voters and information of false ballots from The International Institute for Democracy & Electoral Assistance (IDEA).

Provides scores, reports and statistics covering democracy and freedom across the world. There are reports on civil liberties, political rights, freedom of speech, freedom of press, and countries transitioning to democracy.

Ranks the level of political stability in every country in the world.

Provides statistics of UN member countries covering environmental indicators such as land use, water use, emissions, etc. and profiles by country.

Compiles statistics, maps and profiles regarding a variety of environmental and economic topics.

Lists the wide variety of databases and environmental models used by the EPA to gather information on US environmental statistics

Provides reports, statistics and data on the environment in the Commonwealth.

Provides international information on wages, employment rates, cost of goods, hours worked, etc.

Culmination of US labor-related and consumer-related statistics including employment rates, wages, inflation, and historical data.

BLS statistics focused on the Virginia Economy including state and metropolitan level data.

Website covers statistics on occupations, employment, economic indicators for Virginia to the county and city level.

Find international transport statistics on number of vehicles, emissions, infrastructure, safety, or info by country.

Definitive statistics on US transportation including air, ship & road transports, infrastructure, costs, energy, safety, etc.