• Statista Database (Campus Use or VPN)
  • The World Factbook is prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency for the use of US Government officials. It is frequently used as a resource for academic research papers and news articles.
  • The World Bank Country Classifications group countries into 4 different categories bases on GNI
       1. Low-income economies
       2 .Lower-middle-income economies  
       3. Upper-middle-income economies 
       4. High-income economies
  • World Bank Country Group Characteristics
  • Transparency International (TI)  publishes the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), an annually ranking of 178 countries "by their perceived levels of corruption, as determined by expert assessments and opinion surveys." The CPI defines corruption as "the misuse of public power for private benefit." The scale ranges from 100 (very clean) to 0 (highly corrupt).
  • International Trade Statistics by the World Trade Organization (WTO) provides a detailed overview of the latest developments in world trade.
  • The Gini Index – a measure of national income distribution around the world
    Gini coefficient of zero expresses perfect equality where all values are the same (e.g. everyone has an exactly equal income) whereas a Gini
    index of 100 expresses maximal inequality (e.g. where only one person has all the income).