International Business: Country data

Suggestions for international market research, and finding information about different countries.

Databases for country data

The databases below offer country profiles that are regularly updated, mostly annually. In addition, there are country profiles from various vendors in several of our article databases. Below this box there are links to some of these reports (organized by vendor name), and where useful and possible, a couple of RSS feeds that show some of the latest reports in those databases.

EIU Country Data (in ABI-Inform Trade & Industry)
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Here you can get the statistical data about individual countries, and in a spreadsheet!
Add 'and country-name' to the search box to get the data for the country of interest.

Passport This link opens in a new window
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Data, reports and analysis about countries, industries, companies and consumers. Includes: economic and social data for ~200 countries; market research reports for ~80 countries; company and consumer profiles. We do NOT subscribe to the Sustainability module.
Video demo on how to search in Passport.
Economic and social indicator data redistributed from IMF, UN, World Bank, OECD. Annual data only.
World Bank DataBank from World Bank This link opens in a new window
Free data from the World Bank, including: World Development Indicators (WDI), Statistical Capacity Indicators, Education Statistics, Gender Statistics, and Health Nutrition and Population Statistics, and more. Annual data only, mostly 1960 - present.
World Development Indicators -- see -- World Bank DataBank

Political Risk Yearbook reports
Via in Ebsco's Business Source Premier database. Longer (40-70+ pages) profiles of 100 countries, developed and developing only. These profiles are great for information about the political scene, and the economy.

Mergent Online from Mergent This link opens in a new window
Provides information and data on U.S. and international companies, including annual reports and SEC filings, institutional holdings, FactSheets, Supply Chain reports, etc.
Supply Chain reports cover US public companies primarily in the tech, biotech, and financial sectors. They include information on competitors (by product), customers, market structure, and more. The information is drawn from SEC filings, trade articles, and more. Formerly called Horizon Reports.
IMF Data from International Monetary Fund This link opens in a new window
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Download time series data for international financial variables. Mostly 1970's to present, but some go much further back.
From the IMF's monthly publication of the same name. Variables include: GDP growth, inflation, unemployment, payments balances, exports, imports, external debt, capital flows, commodity prices, and more.

CountryWatch Country Reviews

I'm pointing out this vendor because they cover many countries, and their reports are quite decent and do include data. From the link below you can go directly to these reports (in the Business Source Premier database), and begin searching.

CountryWatch Country Reviews (in Bus. Source Premier)
These are nice reports, but in this database they are broken up into tiny, little chunks.
After you click on the link, try modifying the search with 'and country-name' to pull the reports back together.

IHS Country Monitor Reports (in Business Source Premier)

IHS Markit provides both data and reports. We get the reports via the aggregator Ebsco, and unfortunately, finding them within their Business Source Premier database takes some effort. Below is a durable link to a search for these within the database. After clicking on it, you can add search terms (e.g. a country name) to narrow the results.