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Country Watch 

Political, economic, and cultural information about every sovereign country in the world.

Country Reports on Human Rights Practices

The annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices – the Human Rights Reports – cover internationally recognized individual, civil, political, and worker rights, as set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international agreements.

CIA World Factbook

The World Factbook provides basic intelligence on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, environment, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.

United Nations: Global Issues section

As the world’s only truly universal global organization, the United Nations has become the foremost forum to address issues that transcend national boundaries and cannot be resolved by any one country acting alone. This website offers an overview of some of these issues, and links to other resources, where you can get additional information.

International Labour Organization

Use the search box on this site to find reports and evaluations of social issues by country. Type in your country and topic.

Interactive data maps of United States demographic information from the U.S. Census Bureau from 1790-present.

Explore U.S. census data. Quickfacts gives a nice overview of an area and the Business Builder can help you view certain demographics at local levels.

U.S. statistics on English usage and language spoken at home

News and data on Hispanics in the U.S. from the Pew Research Center

Map of languages commonly spoken in the United States, including enrollment data for university language programs

National labor force statistics with demographic characteristics