Business & Economic Data Sources

The United Nations Comtrade database aggregates detailed global annual and monthly trade statistics by product and trading partner for use by governments, academia, research institutes, and enterprises. Data compiled by the United Nations Statistics Division covers approximately 200 countries and represents more than 99% of the world's merchandise trade.

Research and data to make progress against the world's largest problems. 3139 charts across 297 topics. All free: open access and open source.

A national survey of U.S. adults that monitors trends in public opinion, attitudes, behaviors, and demographics.

A long-running longitudinal household survey that covers employment, income, wealth, expenditures, health, marriage, childbearing, child development, philanthropy, education, and numerous other topics.

The largest available income database of microdata collected from about 50 countries in Europe, North America, Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Australia spanning five decades.

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. It conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other empirical social science research.

NBER's collection of links to freely available data.

Provides links to some of the most useful and popular economics data sources, categorized by data type

The European Union Open Data Portal provides access to an expanding range of data from the European Union institutions and other EU bodies.

Non-profit American think tank based in Washington, D.C. that carries out economic research and analyzes the economic impact of policies and proposals.

Use Data USA to understand and visualize the critical issues facing the United States in areas like jobs, skills and education across industry and geography.

Data360 sources, organizes, documents, and consolidates datasets and indicators from across the World Bank Group.

Find datasets stored across thousands of repositories on the Web.

Search for datasets across over 1,000 different major data centers and repositories including ICPSR, Harvard Dataverse, Data-Planet, the California Digital Library, Figshare, Dryad, the Center for Open Science, UC San Diego Library Digital Collections, etc.

AWS hosts a variety of public datasets that anyone can access for free.

Kaggle is an online platform for data science and machine learning competitions, datasets, and collaborative coding projects.

A collection of more than 50 large network datasets from tens of thousands of nodes and edges to tens of millions of nodes and edges. In includes social networks, web graphs, road networks, internet networks, citation networks, collaboration networks, and communication networks.

The Yahoo Webscope Program is a reference library of interesting and scientifically useful datasets for non-commercial use by academics and other scientists.

Open research data repository, where researchers can upload and share research data. Datasets can be shared privately among individuals, as well as published to share with the world.

Produces research to advance understanding of poverty and the role of social policy in reducing poverty and promoting opportunity, economic security, and individual and family well-being. Center's work focuses on poverty
and social policy issues in New York City and the U.S.

A comprehensive list of 2,600+ open data portals around the world.

A list of topic-centric high quality public data sources. Collected from blogs, answers, and user responses.