Subject Guide ~ Latin American and Latine Studies

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La Comisión Económica para América Latina (CEPAL) was established within the United Nations by Economic and Social Council resolution 106(VI) of 25 February 1948 and began to function that same year. Later expanding to cover Caribbean countries, the Spanish acronym remained unchanged and is known to English speakers as ECLAC.

The IMF publishes a range of time series data on IMF lending, exchange rates and other economic and financial indicators. Popular datasets include International Financial Statistics, Direction of Trade, Balance of Payments, Government Finance Statistics, and more.

Find, compare and share the latest OECD data: charts, maps, tables and related publications. Use the browse by country feature to see individual country profiles and more!

Search across 60 million records compiled form 32 UN statistical databases.

DataBank is an analysis and visualisation tool that contains collections of time series data on a variety of topics. You can create your own queries; generate tables, charts, and maps; and easily save, embed, and share them.
Data sets include World Development Indicators and wide ranging data on education and health.

INDEC has made the following databases available to users, covering different thematic areas for analysis and processing, including but not limited to: census data, labor market, health, science & technology. Browse data from the Estadísticas option from the top menu. Take a quick view via the National Data Summary Page.

Explore Mexico through economic, social, and occupational data through customizable interactive visualizations.

The National Institute of Statistics and Geography is an autonomous agency of the Mexican Government dedicated to coordinate the National System of Statistical and Geographical Information of the country.

The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics is the agency responsible for official collection of statistical, geographic, cartographic, geodetic and environmental information in Brazil.

This page contains a list, ordered by country, of links to the top level archived version of all ministry and presidency Web sites captured as part of the LAGDA project. Clicking on a link will take you to a page with a list of dates, each of which corresponds to a date on which that site was captured. Clicking on a date will retrieve the site from the archive.

The Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) is the premier academic institution carrying out surveys of public opinion in the Americas, with over thirty years of experience. As a center for excellence in survey research, LAPOP uses "gold standard" approaches and innovative methods to carry out targeted national surveys; conduct impact evaluation studies; and produce reports on individual attitudes, evaluations, and experiences. The AmericasBarometer survey is the only scientifically rigorous comparative survey that covers 34 nations including all of North, Central, and South America, as well as a significant number of countries in the Caribbean. Each year it publishes dozens of high quality academic studies and policy-relevant papers. Work with the interactive Data Playground here.

Penn World Table (current version 10.01) is a database with information on relative levels of income, output, input and productivity, covering 183 countries between 1950 and 2019.

The QoG Institute's standard data set contains general country indicators (population, education, energy, environment, economy, etc.) from 100+ primary data sources, as well as its original variables related to quality of government, transparency, and public administration. It also offers other data sets focused on OECD countries and regions of the European Union.

Transparency International is a global movement working in over 100 countries to end the injustice of corruption. The CPI ranks 180 countries and territories around the globe by their perceived levels of public sector corruption, scoring on a scale of 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean).

The World Values Survey (WVS) is an international research program devoted to the scientific and academic study of social, political, economic, religious and cultural values of people in the world. Survey of almost 100 countries which contain almost 90 percent of the world’s population, using a common questionnaire. The WVS is the largest non-commercial, cross-national, time series investigation of human beliefs and values.