The surveys cover a broad range of business environment topics including access to finance, corruption, infrastructure, crime, competition, and performance measures. To date, over 164,000 interviews in 144 countries have taken place under the Global Methodology.

A series of annual studies measuring the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. Doing Business presents quantitative indicators on business regulations and the protection of property rights that can be compared across 190 economies—from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe—and over time.

A global index of public registries for company, land and court records. The list contains over 1,000 sources from 181 countries.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is an international organisation that works to build better policies for better lives.

Great resource for country data, profiles and research by global topic (education, development, corruption, etc.)

Find data by country or region for a large set of economic indicators.

The World Factbook provides information on the history, people and society, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.

Authoritative, accessible, and regularly updated primers on hundreds of foreign policy topics.