When researching for statistical information on countries for various assignments, I found it quite hard to find particular economic statistics for China that didn’t require paying a large fee for huge documentation complied by independent firms. I came across a website called CIA Factbook:
This provided me with lots of useful information about the countries I was researching. Although on this website there was a lot of information, some of it had not been regularly updated, this could be down to many reasons such as countries declining to disclose certain information, or could be a political reason.
I also came across another website called Nation Master which has a large number of statistics for countries, many of them taken from other websites, but the information is updated often.
The website also offers a feedback feature that allows researchers and opportunity to say what they think of the website, also to put recommendations, almost like a warning to potential researchers.
The website has a statistics area that tables all countries in ranking order of any chosen stat so it allows you to compare and analyse for assignments and for general interest.
For example it shows how much money in Aid is given per $1000:
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/eco_eco_aid_don_pergdp-economic-aid-donor-per-gdp
I was surprised to see Denmark as the top country, also considering its size and wealth to see the USA at 23rd is quite amazing. This website really helped me in my assignment and allowed me to support my ideas with recent statistics and quality presentation on the website aided that as well.
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