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A list of available resources (especially data and insight) for every economist
https://github.com/niyumard/awesome-economics

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A list of available resources (especially data and insight) for every economist

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# Awesome Economics

# Data

## Global



### Datasets



* [FRED2](https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/) - 380,000 (macro) time series from 80 sources. Supports plugins for importing data into Excel, Stata, R, and others. Has a mobile app.

* [World Bank Databank](http://databank.worldbank.org/) - International macro time series.

* [IMF Data](http://www.imf.org/en/Data) - The standard reference for macro data.

* [IMF's Datamapper](https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/datasets) DataMapper for different datasets.

* [Quandl](https://www.quandl.com/) - Aggregate financial and economic data from multiple sources. Some data vendors sell their data via this service. Good integration with statistical software.

* [MEDevEcon](https://sites.google.com/site/medevecon/devecondata) - Data related to development economics.

* [Monetary Economics: Data Sources](https://sites.google.com/site/davesmant/various/data-sets-sources) - Overview of macro data sources.

* [OFFSTATS](http://www.offstats.auckland.ac.nz/) - Links to official data sources by country and subject.

* [OECD Stats](https://stats.oecd.org/) (Charts in [OECD Data](https://data.oecd.org/))

* [FAO's Aquastat](https://aquastat.fao.org/climate-information-tool/)

* [International Energy Agency](https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics)

* [UNIDO's Maufacturing Data](https://stat.unido.org/database/CIP%202021) Some data and indexes for global manufacturing by country and by ISIC

* [United Nation's Statistics Divison](https://unstats.un.org/home/)

* [Penn World Table](https://www.rug.nl/ggdc/productivity/pwt/) Information on relative levels of income, output, input and productivity, covering 183 countries between 1950 and 2019.

* [SIPRI's Miliatry Expenditure](https://www.sipri.org/databases/milex)

* [International Labour Organization's Data](https://ilostat.ilo.org/data/)

* [Measuring Worth](https://www.measuringworth.com/) GDP, CPI, Gold Prices, Wages, Interest Rates, mainly for US and UK but also for Spain and Australia

#### International Trade

* [The World Integrated Trade Solution](https://wits.worldbank.org/)

* [The Observatory of Economic Complexity](https://oec.world/) Trade charts and economic complexity for countries

* [Harvard's Atlas of Economic Complexity](https://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/)

* [Trade Map](https://www.trademap.org/) Trade statistics for international business development. Monthly, quarterly and yearly trade data. Import & export values, volumes, growth rates, market shares, etc. 

* [UN's Comtrade](https://comtrade.un.org/) Free API and database of global trade data.

#### Energy

* [bp's Statistical Review of World Energy](https://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/energy-economics/statistical-review-of-world-energy/downloads.html) And also energy outlook. Data on oil and gas production and consumption among other things.

* [EIA's reports](https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/aeo/)



#### Finance

* [Yahoo Finance](https://finance.yahoo.com/) Data for cryptocurrency and stock prices

* [Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system data for U.S. Securities and Exchange](https://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml)



#### Charts & Visualization

##### Charts

* [OECD Data](https://data.oecd.org/)

* [World Bank Data](http://data.worldbank.org/) International macro time series graphed.

##### Visualization

* [Opportunity Atlas](https://www.opportunityatlas.org/)

* [Gapminder](https://www.gapminder.org/)

* [Our World in Data](https://ourworldindata.org/) 



#### Search

* [Mendely Data](https://data.mendeley.com/)

* [Harvard Datavers](https://dataverse.harvard.edu/)

* [Google's Public Data Search Engine](https://www.google.com/publicdata/directory#!)

* [UNdata](http://data.un.org/Default.aspx)

* [International Open Government Dataset Search](https://logd.tw.rpi.edu//node/9903) - Over 1,000,000 government datasets. When works, this service looks [like this](http://web.archive.org/web/20140815054106/http://logd.tw.rpi.edu/node/9903). Otherwise, you'll see a 403 error.

* [Dataset Search Engine](https://cse.google.com/cse/publicurl?cx=002720237717066476899:v2wv26idk7m) - Google-based search over 200 data sources, including those mentioned here. You can use Google [search operators](http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators_reference.html) here.

* [StackExchange Open Data](http://opendata.stackexchange.com/) - If you haven't found the data you were looking for, you can ask it here.

* [Reddit /r/datasets](https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets) - One more place to request datasets.



#### Indices

* [World Energy Trilemma](https://trilemma.worldenergy.org/)



## the United States

* [The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis](https://www.bea.gov/data/) National accounts for the US.

* [U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics](https://www.bls.gov/cex/)

    * **Consumer Expenditure Surveys**: data on expenditures, income, and demographic characteristics of consumers in the United States.

    * **Current Population Survey**: Monthly survey on labor force, unemployment, earnings, hours of work, etc.

   * **Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey**: data on job openings, vacancy rate, hires and separations.



## the United Kingdom

* [Office for National Statistics](https://www.ons.gov.uk/)



## Iran

* [Central Bank of Iran's Timeseries Data](https://tsd.cbi.ir) _Note:_ There are many other data available on https://cbi.ir as well.

* [Statistical Center of Iran](https://amar.org.ir/english) _Includes:_ Valuable data including national accounts and Households Expenditure and Income Survey.

* [Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance's Databank](https://databank.mefa.ir)

* [Trade Promotion Organization of Iran](https://en.tpo.ir/Non%E2%80%93oil-Export) Data for non-oil exports, and other trade data.

* [The Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration](https://irica.gov.ir/index.php?newlang=eng)

* [Iranian Mines & Mining Industries Development & Renovation Organization](https://imidro.gov.ir/general_content/442-Annual-Reports.html) Reports on Mining

* [Tehran Securities Exchange Client](http://www.tsetmc.com/Site.aspx?ParTree=111A11) It's a Windows application for stock prices in Tehran Stock Exchange.

* [Ministry of Roads and Urban Development](https://www.mrud.ir/%D9%85%D8%B3%DA%A9%D9%86/%D8%A7%D9%82%D8%AA%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%AF-%D9%85%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%86-%D9%88-%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%87-%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B2%D9%8A/%D8%A2%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D9%88-%D8%A7%D8%B7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%AA) Data on housing prices (exists in amar.org.ir too)

* [Codal](https://codal.ir) Financial statements of public companies

### Private Source of Information

* [Peydaa](http://peydaa.ir) Info on labor market

* [JobVision](https://jobvision.ir/landing/salary-survey-report) Info on labor market

* [Iran's Freedom of Information Act](https://iranfoia.ir/web/guest/home) Request data from public offices.

## Japan

* [Japanese Government Statistics](https://www.e-stat.go.jp/en/)

# Miscellaneous

* [WHO's Covid19 Data](https://covid19.who.int/)

# Similar Resources

* https://github.com/antontarasenko/awesome-economics

* https://github.com/awesomedata/awesome-public-datasets#economics