Various Country Statistics

Question

In Wikipedia articles of countries a lot of statistics are given about the country at hand. For example in the Venezuela article, demographics are described in terms of ethnic groups (e.g. 51.6% are Mestizo), religion (71% catholic), and total population size and population density. There is GDP statistics, Gini-index, Human Development Index, and more.

Is there any openly available dataset with this type of data for many/all countries?

I'm of course aware that there is going to be some missing data within such a dataset.

Answer 1

World Statistics provides the following links:

• World Bank
• UN
• ILO
• FAO
• UNICEF

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Software/services

• Gapminder
• Google Public Data

Other sources

The World Factbook.

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Answer 2

If the information is already available on Wikipedia then it may be part of http://wiki.dbpedia.org.

For Europe you could use https://www.europeandataportal.eu