Political Science

Measures how close countries come to meeting spedific bencmarks for national pollution control and natural resource management.

Measures how free a country is according to an analysis of its civil and political liberties

Measures the extent to which women have achieved equality in the areas of economics, politics, education, and health.

Measures well-being of countries around the world by taking into account life expectancy, education, and the standard of living.

Measures the degress to which corruption is percieved to exist among a country's public officials and politicians.

Sponsored by the Fund for Peace and Foreign Policy

The Ibrahim Index from the Mo Ibrahim Foundation provides a comprehensive ranking of African countries according to governance quality.

Provides daily updates on relief effots, snapshots of counties. mapping information, etc.

New! April 22, 2010, the World Bank provides free access to its Data Catalog, providing download access to over 2,000 indicators from World Bank data sources.

The International Crisis Group is now generally recognised as the world’s leading independent, non-partisan, source of analysis and advice to governments, and intergovernmental bodies like the United Nations, European Union and World Bank, on the prevention and resolution of deadly conflict

Prepared by the Legatum Institute, UK. The Prosperity Index assesses 110 countries, accounting for over 90 percent of the world’s population. The Index defines prosperity as both wealth and wellbeing. 2010 rankdings availabla as data or pdf report.

CIW Network is an independent, non-partisan group, based at the University of Waterloo.

Develops, implements, and analyzes of public opinion surveys. Since the 1970s, LAPOP has gathered a databases containing political perspectives from Latin America and the Caribbean

Globalbarometer represents an indigenous initiative to develop a global intellectual community of democracy studies surveying ordinary citizens

civil society, democracy, and markets in East Central Europe and the newly independent states

World Competitiveness Report 2014-2015