Economic History

Statistics on economic, financial, social, environmental, and SDG indicators for the 49 regional members of Asian Development Bank.

Blue Books and other archival material from 13 British colonies and protectorates in Africa dating 1821-1953. The standardised nature of the Blue Books enables comparisons to be drawn geographically (between colonies), and over time on issues from colonial economic practice to education and hospitals.

Several databases in economic history and demography created at the Department of Economic History at Lund university

Website operated by the Economic History Association. Economic history data series provided by researchers in economic history.

The European Union statistics website.

Search for economic articles that have provided data and code for replication purposes

Data set on exchange rates, central bank and commercial bank balance sheets, interest rates, money supply, inflation, international trade, government finance, national accounts, and more. Main focus is data from ca 1500 to 1950, with some earlier and later data.

Quantitative indicators of American history. Revised edition, 2021

Portal for historical statistics

Economic and financial data from the IMF

Publications from the IMF including International Financial Statistics, Direction of Trade Statistics, Balance of Payments Statistics, Government Finance Statistics

Provides key economic and social indicators for the last 260 years.
Springer

Prices and wages

Cooperation between scholars to continue Maddison's work on measuring economic performance for different regions, time periods and subtopics.

MEMDB contains five large data sets, three pertaining to currency exchanges and two pertaining to prices.

Books, papers, statistics and datasets from the OECD.

Gathers and compiles data from numerous institutes and sources in media, business, finance, politics, and more.
Also includes forecasts, market analytics, studies, dossiers, industry reports and infographics.

A source of historical statistics from the US Government beginning in the mid-1800s which covers a range of topics, beyond just industry and business. The US Census Bureau terminated the collection of data in 2012.

Statistical resources compiled by the United Nations (UN) statistical system and other international agencies. The databases contain over 60 million data points and cover a wide range of statistical themes including agriculture, crime, communication, development assistance, education, energy, environment, finance, gender, health, labour market, manufacturing, national accounts, population and migration, science and technology, tourism, transport and trade.

Contains a complete and consistent set of time series from 1970 onwards of main national accounts aggregates for all UN members states.
Free resource

World Bank. The World Development Indicators is a compilation of internationally comparable statistics about global development

Development data from the World Bank. Includes data from the World Bank's microdata, finances and energy data platforms, as well as datasets from the open data catalog.

Statistik från Arbetsförmedlingen

Flera databaser inom ekonomisk historia och demografi från Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen vid Lunds universitet.

Historisk statistik, särskilt ekonomisk historia

Sveriges Riksbank

Se hur inflationen påverkat penningvärdet. Beräkningarna kan göras från 1917 och framåt.

Digitaliserade publikationer via SCB

Statistiska centralbyrån

Resource for academic information on Asia. Includes 70 databases + 400 e-journals via Academic Resources and
Asian newspapers (Library Pressdisplay) via Newsroom.

This portal from the World Bank provides an online tool for access to comprehensive global, regional, and country data related to climate change and development.

Country reports from Statista regarding the status quo and development of countries and regions including key economic indicators like GDP, national finance, demographics and trade figures as well as major industry players.

Publications and more from the different regional commissions:
Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)
Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLA)
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
Economic Commission for Western Asia (ECWA)

World Bank open data by country