Politics and International Relations

• data.gov

Statistics from the UK central government departments

• Statistics at FCDO (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

 Focuses on the main international measure of official aid spend, known as Official Development Assistance (ODA). 

• English Indices of Deprivation

• Gov.UK - Statistics

Statistics on crime, probation, policing, immigration and the courts in the UK

• MORI (Market and Opinion Research International) Opinion Polls

Organisation which conducts surveys in the UK and internationally on political issues and news

• Nomis (Official Labour Market Statistics)

Service provides by the ONS giving free access to the latest and most detailed statistics on the UK labour market by official sources

• Office for National Statistics

Official UK statistics site for health, education, social issues, economic, commerce and labour and all government policy areas.  Includes the 2011 Census

• Council of European Social Science Data Archives (CRESSDA)

  CESSDA promotes cooperation and easier access to the data archives of countries around the world, particularly in Europe. The CESSDA Catalogue provides a seamless interface to datasets from social science data archives across Europe. The data may be located in several ways: free text search; browse by topic; browse by keyword; browse by data publisher.

• Eurostat

            Statistical office of the European Communities.  Eurostat gathers data from the official statistical agencies in member countries.

• Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

• Health at a glance: Europe

• European Union

           Official website of the European Union

• ILOSTAT International Labour Organization

The leading source of labour statistics

• Statistics page from RBA

Key starting points

• UNESCO

Global and internationally comparable statistics on education, science and technology, culture and communication

• UNICEF

Statistics on children of the world. UNICEF's key annual publication, State of the World's Children is available online

• United Nations Development Programme

Human development reports published annually contain figures on global poverty, education and literacy, GDP, health, equality and the environment

• Global Health Observatory

A world of health data

• United Nations Statistics Division

Access detailed figures on all countries of the world

• World Bank - Data page

Free and open access to global development data

• Our World in Data

A scientific online publication that focuses on large global problems such as poverty, disease, hunger, climate change, war, existential risks, and inequality