PLSC 349: Politics of Latin America and the Caribbean (Pribble): Country Rankings & Indicators

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.

Measures the regimes of every country from 1946 to present and provides a score for each country ranging from full democracy to failed state.

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

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.

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.

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

A new measurement of poverty, focusing on elements of education, health and living standards into levels of poverty. Created by the UN and Oxford University.

Publications and working papers by economists, political scientists, sociologists and anthropologists researching poverty and inequality.

Describes the various UN programs to reduce global poverty.

Analysis of policies aimed at reducing global poverty and inequality.

Columbia University project mapping global poverty. There are existing maps and data to create your own.

Provides reports on health and disease in countries and health care programs in the developing world.

Ranks countries on the level of human development, such as poverty levels, health, life expectancies, education, equality of genders, etc.

Non-profit group's website focused on improving health of people throughout the world through education and health programs, including publications.

Providing information on the UN's AIDS initiative to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS.