Statistics

NCWC Librarians recommend:

FedStats.gov

Statistics provided by United States government agencies are all linked from this page. Census data, crime, health, labor, agriculture, and all of the major branches of the federal government make tons of statistics available through the web. This is the easiest way to find them.

OFFSTATS via University of Auckland
THE comprehensive gateway to freely-available official statistics on the web. An amazing richness of information by country, by region, and by topic can be found here. For any statistics, this may be the first place to look.

Statistical Warehouse via Regional OneSource
Description: Statistical Warehouse contains raw statistics that can be used for business, political science, sociology, and other disciplines. The statistics are often broken down by state, and typically only address topics within the United States.

NCWC Librarians Say: When looking for data here, try clicking through the menus instead of using the search box. There is some useful data here.

World Data Analyst via Britannica
Description: A collection of current and past statistics on the countries of the world that makes historical and cross-national comparisons easy.

NCWC Librarians Say: This is a great resource, with quite deep statistics on everything from economy to quality of life to military spending. A wonderful tool for international comparison.