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Government Information - International and Foreign Government Resources

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Guides to International and Foreign Govt. Resources

• Foreign Government Resources on the Web (A good place for links to foreign government resources; maintained by the U. of Michigan Library)
• GODORT International Documents Task Force Web Links (guide to sites that organize links to foreign national government, international government organization, and non-governmental web sites)
• International Agencies and Information on the Web (very good guide to guides to international and inter-governmental agencies and a comprehensive set of links to their web sites; maintained by the U. of Michigan Library)
• Portals to the World (from the Library of Congress; "selective links providing authoritative, in-depth information about the nations and other areas of the world")
• Strategies for Locating Foreign Government Information on the Internet (from the Penn State University Library)

United Nations Web Sites

• UNESCO Information Sources (one stop source for searching a variety of UNESCO information sources)
• United Nations Headquarters
• United Nations System

International Statistical Resources

• Foreign Governments Statistics (maintained by the U. of Michigan Library; for additional sites of statistics see the Statistical Resources on Web: Foreign Governnment Data Sources site)
• InfoNation ("database that allows you to view and compare the most up-to-date statistical data for the Member States of the United Nations")
• International Data Base (IDB) (contains statistical tables of demographic, and socio-economic data for 227 countries and areas of the world)
• National Statistical Agencies and Offices (links to the national statistical agencies and offices of foreign governments; maintained by the Penn State University Libraries)
• OFFSTATS: Official Statistics on the Web ( country and topical level "social, economic and general data from official or similar 'quotable' sources;" maintained by the Univ. of Auckland Library)
• Statistical Resources on the Web: Foreign and International Economics (from the Univ. of Michigan Library)
• Statistical Resources on the Web: Foreign Government Data Sources (maintained by the U. of Michigan Library; for additional sites of statistics see their "Foreign Governments Statistics" page)
• United Nations Statistical Division (starting place to find links to statistical databases maintained by the UN)

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