LibGuides: Strategic Market Planning in Latin America: Country Data

Country Information

CountryWatch
Covers historical, economic, environmental, political, investment, news, statistical and background information on each of the world's countries.

Full-text, maps, and statistics
Country Risk Reports (D&B)
Provides political, economic and commercial risk data for individual countries, with 10 years of historical data available. Detailed instructions when you click "more" below.

Click on “Begin your search,” then “D&B Manuals” on the left, then “Country Reports”; Reports and data; 2003 - present; updated weekly

EIU Country Data in ABI-INFORM
Locate country information by region in ABI-INFORM.
Fitch Solution Risk Reports in ABI-Inform
Published quarterly - search for the country of interest in the box at the top of the search page.

Passport GMID
Provides key business intelligence on countries, markets, and companies

Provides users with historical statistics and forecasts, analysis of consumers' lifestyles, information sources, brand and company information, plus full-text market analysis.; Analysis & statistical reports; Users are required to read and accept the Terms and Conditions in order to access this resource.
World Bank Global Economic Monitor (GEM)
Current economic trends along with economic, financial, and commodity data indicators for high income and developing countries.

Features up-to-date analysis on global economic conditions, including a daily brief and event-driven focus reports, direct access to high-frequency datasets via Quick Query, forecasts for commodity prices and main macroeconomic indicators for over 130 countries.; Reports; Updated daily
World Bank World Development Indicators (WDI)
Development indicators for developing & high-income countries covering demographic, social, economic, financial, natural resources and environmental topics.

There are several ways of displaying the data: index, percentage change, and graphs, and can export the result in standard formats.; Reports, data & graphs; 1960 - present

Transformation Index BTI
The Bertelsmann Stiftung’s Transformation Index (BTI) analyzes and evaluates whether and how developing countries and countries in transition are steering social change toward democracy and a market economy.

World Bank e-library
Collection of World Bank publications

A portal to over 4,500 World Bank documents on international and country-specific economic, development, and environmental issues. The collection consists of over 1,800 World Bank publications and over 2,700 Policy Research Working Papers.; Full-text; 1987 - present
OECD iLibrary
Comprehensive resource on the major world economies and world development

Provides all of the research created by OECD on economics, development, environment and governance, including books, reports, statistics and databases.; Full-text, statistics & data ; 1998 - present
Statista
Aggregates statistical data on hundreds of international industries from thousands of sources, including market researchers, trade organizations, scientific journals, and government databases.
Mintel Market Sizes (formerly Global Market Navigator)
Provides fast, easy to compare, extractable data on market size, market share and segmentation, along with supporting trend forecasts.

Reports and data; [user guide video]
World Bank Global Economic Monitor (GEM)
Current economic trends along with economic, financial, and commodity data indicators for high income and developing countries.

Features up-to-date analysis on global economic conditions, including a daily brief and event-driven focus reports, direct access to high-frequency datasets via Quick Query, forecasts for commodity prices and main macroeconomic indicators for over 130 countries.; Reports; Updated daily

Doing Business in... (World Bank)
The World Bank ranks countries by regions according to how difficult it is to start and run a business in individual countries.

IMF eLibrary
Contains international financial statistics (IFS), balance of payments statistics (BOPS), direction of trade statistics (DOTS), government finance statistics (GFS) covering more than 200 countries and areas.

Data can be exported in Excel, CSV, Tab delimited, and HTML formats.