Research Guides: Government Information: Foreign and International: Other Countries

Other Countries

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Constitute
The world's constitutions to read, search and compare.
Country Statistical Yearbooks
University of Wisconsin's research guide to country statistical yearbooks or similar collections for 111 countries worldwide.
Economist Intelligence Unit
CultureGrams
OECD Economic Surveys (via the OECD iLibrary)
ZZ EC33... (Documents Reference and Compact Shelving)
OECD iLibrary
Full text of OECD books, periodicals, and statistical databases.
Country Studies / Area Handbooks
US1 DI6... (Documents Compact Shelving)
Online via Library of Congress: Country studies, Country profiles
IMF Country Information
Select "Country Reports".
World Bank Documents and Reports by Country
World Bank - Doing Business
Country and sector information (Canadian Trade Commissioner Service)
Country and market info (Export Development Canada)
CIA World Factbook
Lexis Advance

Use yearbooks for country profiles.
Europa world year book - JN1.E85 (Stauffer Library - Reference)
Statesman's year-book - JA51.S7 (Stauffer Library - Reference)
Search Omni (Library Catalogue) to find books about a country.
Examples (using Keyword search):
"costa rica" and ecology
japan and ("country study" or "area handbook")

Find more statistics sources

Index to International Statistics (IIS)
US7 CIS I53 (Documents Reference)
Look up your topic or country in the Index volume. Using the item number, go to the Abstract volume to find the title. Then look up the title in Omni.

United Nations. Human Development Report
UN1 DP H72 (Documents Reference)
World Economic Forum. Global Competitiveness Report
SY7 WEF W51 (Documents Reference)