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Here bout 200 best sources of economic and financial data published by various websites. Datas listed below are free and can be very useful for your research and empirical work.

Contains massive amounts of data on US economy over 400,000 time series. Downloadable in excel format.

Great website with massive amounts of economic and financial data for free.

Very interesting basic social and economic data on all countries in the world.

Extensive, Trade and Foreign Direct Investment Data

Data download Statistical data on macroeconomic data from the OECD covering 30 major economies

Large source of historical data on US and other economies, both economic and financial data presented in a spreadsheet like webpage !

A huge collection of data over of 200,000 economic indicators, covering 200 countries, particularly useful for developing countries. The second link guides you to spreadsheets.

Superb resource for economic data 32,000 macro times series covering over 200 countries, plus direction of trade stats.

Great resource providing macroeconomic data on GDP, interest rates, government expenditure, investment and much more fore the 170 plus member countries.

The place for trade data, including exports and imports by product group, trade in services and tariff related data

International Labor Office. Collects huge amounts of labor related data, including employment, wages, labor productivity, income distribution and more.

United Nations has data covering, crime, education, energy, environment, gender, health, population, tourism and trade and even commodity prices.

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has many databases covering macroeconomic indicators, education, energy, finance, health, tax, trade and transport and more!

Huge dataset on United States covering people and household, business and industry also results from 2010 census

Use a vast databank from a variety of sources enabling you to compare one nation to another in chart form.

Provides GDP and GDP per capita at PPP rates for some 189 countries.

A listing of various data sources on economics, finance and business.

The place for statistics of all sorts on the European Union member countrieces, social, economic and demographic statistics are available.

This site presents economic data for example on income distribution and house prices in a visual manner. Many creative ways of presenting data.

Provides links to a huge range of useful socio-economic data sets. Over 100 links to socioeconomic data sources arranged by subject and provider.

The Bureau of Economic Analysis provides a comprehensive up to date picture of economic activity. US economic growth, and regional economic development stats.

21) FRED

The Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis provides over 45,000 time series data. Covers banking, macro series, exchange rates, international and more.

A great resource for locating any US Federal government data. You can locate data by State or Data category. The amount of data indexed is vast as a search of the A to Z reveals.

Provides economic data on over 230 countries along with historical data on some 300,000 economic indicators including bond yields, stock indices and commodity prices. You can select regions.

A unique way of presenting data on economies, especially on the health and wealth of nations. Some great videos as well as many downloadable economic, demographic and social indicators.

The Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis provides extensive economic and financial data via FRED 41,000 series are covered.

Run by the IMF this website provides the key macroeconomic data on the G20 economies. Superb resource.

Provides links to long run historical data of currencies against the US dollar and UK and US economic growth rates.

A great resource for the Morgan Stanley Capital Market Indices. You can find various market return indices measured in dollars, euros and other currencies