A list of country rankings based on indicators that try to measure different characteristics of countries around the world. Most of these rankings are ongoing and recurring. Be careful when using these indexes because they often measure qualities… Read more.
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The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.
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The CIRI Human Rights Dataset contains standards-based quantitative information on government respect for 15 internationally recognized human rights for 195 countries, annually from 1981-2010. Contains measures of government human rights… Read more.
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Contains detailed data on revenue, grants, expense, transactions in assets and liabilities, and stocks of assets and liabilities of general government and its subsectors.
This data is available in the IMF eLibrary. U of T Map & Data Library also… Read more.