Data

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Current Affairs & News

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1. African Statistical Yearbook (AfDB) https://www.afdb.org/en/knowledge/publications/african-statistical-yearbookAnnual economic, demographic, and development statistics for African countries.

2. Arab Barometer https://www.arabbarometer.org/Public opinion survey data on political and social attitudes in the Arab world.

3. Arab Center Washington DC – Public Opinion Surveys https://arabcenterdc.org/publications/public-opinion-surveys/Survey datasets and reports focused on the Middle East.

4. CESSDA Data Catalogue (Consortium on European Social Science Data Archives) https://www.cessda.eu/Tools/Data-CatalogueCentral catalogue of European social science datasets across national archives.

5. CLOSER Studies https://www.closer.ac.uk/UK longitudinal studies on health, education, and social outcomes.

6. DataCite Commons https://search.datacite.org/Search engine for research datasets with DOIs across repositories.

7. Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS Program) https://dhsprogram.com/Internationally comparable data on health, fertility, and population.

8. Dryad https://datadryad.org/searchOpen-access repository for research datasets.

9. Eurobarometer https://www.gesis.org/eurobarometer-data-service/homePublic opinion surveys across European Union countries.

10. Eurostat https://ec.europa.eu/eurostatEuropean Union datasets

11. European Social Survey (ESS) http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/Cross-national survey data on attitudes and demographics in Europe.

12. General Social Survey (GSS) https://gss.norc.org/Long-running U.S. survey of social attitudes and demographics.

13. Google Dataset Search https://datasetsearch.research.google.com/Search tool indexing datasets across thousands of repositories.

14. Harvard Dataverse https://dataverse.harvard.edu/Open repository for research datasets across disciplines.

15. Health and Retirement Study (HRS) https://hrs.isr.umich.edu/aboutLongitudinal U.S. data on aging, health, and retirement.

16. Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX) https://data.humdata.org/Open datasets on humanitarian crises and development.

17. ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research) https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/Major archive of social science datasets (many require institutional access).

18. Indices of Social Development (ISD) https://isd.iss.nl/Country-level indicators on social inclusion and institutional quality.

19. Institute of International Finance – MENAP & Central Asia https://www.iif.com/Research/MENAP-Central-AsiaMacroeconomic and financial data for MENAP and Central Asia regions.

20. International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) https://issp.org/Cross-national survey data on social science topics.

21. IPUMS (USA) https://www.ipums.org/Harmonized U.S. census and survey microdata.

22. IPUMS International https://international.ipums.org/international/Harmonized international census microdata.

23. OpenAIRE https://explore.openaire.eu/search/findEuropean open science platform for datasets and research outputs.

24. Penn World Table (PWT) https://www.rug.nl/ggdc/productivity/pwt/Cross-country economic and national accounts data.

25. Polity Project https://www.systemicpeace.org/polityproject.htmlData on political regimes and regime change.

26. re3data – Registry of Research Data Repositories https://www.re3data.org/Global directory of research data repositories.

27. Simmons OAD Data Repositories Wiki https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Data_repositoriesCurated list of open-access data repositories by subject.

28. Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/scfindex.htmDetailed U.S. household finance data.

29. U.S. Census Bureau https://data.census.gov/U.S. population, housing, and demographic data.

30. UAE Federal Competitiveness and Statistics Centre (FCSC) https://fcsc.gov.ae/en-usOfficial national statistics for the UAE.

31. UN Data https://data.un.org/United Nations statistical databases across many domains.

32. UN ESCWA Statistics https://archive.unescwa.org/our-work/statisticsEconomic and social data focused on Western Asia.

33. World Values Survey (WVS) https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSContents.jspCross-national survey data on values, beliefs, and social attitudes.

GIS and Geospatial Data Resources

1. Ancient World Mapping Center GIS Data https://awmc.unc.edu/resources/gis-data/Historical and archaeological GIS datasets.

2. CURIOSity Digital Collections (Harvard) https://library.harvard.edu/services-tools/curiosity-digital-exhibitsDigitized maps and geospatial collections.

3. David Rumsey Historical Map Collection https://www.davidrumsey.com/High-resolution historical maps.

4. DIVA-GIS https://diva-gis.org/index.htmlFree GIS data (administrative boundaries, roads, etc.).

5. Europeana – Maps and Geography https://www.europeana.eu/en/collections/topic/18-maps-and-geographyCultural heritage maps and spatial resources.

6. GADM Administrative Area Maps https://gadm.org/Global administrative boundary shapefiles.

7. Latitude and Longitude Finder https://www.latlong.net/Tool for finding geographic coordinates.

8. NYU Spatial Data Repository https://geo.nyu.edu/Academic geospatial datasets.

Note on website: > The Spatial Data Repository (SDR) will be discontinued on September 7, 2026. Going forward, SDR records will be available in NYU’s UltraViolet repository or on partner GeoBlacklight systems. Previously available permanent links bookmarked for assets here will also redirect you to the current location of a record. If you cannot find a previously available record, please reach out to Data Services at data.services@nyu.edu.

9. Princeton Digital Maps and Geospatial Data https://maps.princeton.edu/Geospatial datasets and historical maps.

10. Projection Wizard https://projectionwizard.org/Tool for selecting map projections and coordinate systems.

11. Qatar Digital Library https://www.qdl.qa/Historical maps and geospatial materials focused on the Gulf.

12. University of Texas Libraries GeoData https://geodata.lib.utexas.edu/Large collection of GIS datasets.

13. Wiley Digital Archives – Maps https://www.wileydigitalarchives.com/Historical maps and spatial collections (subscription-based).

14. Worldview (NASA) https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/Satellite imagery and Earth observation data.