Foreign Countries & International Organizations

Open Data

Comtrade - UN database containing detailed import and export statistics
Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) - includes population, health, HIV, and nutrition data for over 90 countries
European Union Open Data Portal
FAOSTAT - Food and Agriculture statistics
Gapminder - data visualization tool promoting sustainable global development
Global Health Observatory World Health Organization
IMF Data, International Monetary Fund
IPUMS International Collection of census data from around the world. Access is free; however, registration is required
OECD Data Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Penn World Tables - relative levels of income, output, inputs and productivity
PRB DataFinder, Population Reference Bureau
UNdata - a data access system to UN databases
UNESCO Institute for Statistics - education, science, technology, culture and communication
World Bank DataBank - World Bank databases, including World Development Indicators, Education Statistics, Gender Statistics, Poverty and Inequality Database (and many more)
World Trade Organization Statistics Database - economic and trade policy issues
US Federal Reserve
US Census Bureau, including
- American Community Survey
- American Fact Finder
USA.gov - Data & Statistics about the United States
Data.gov, US Open Data

ICPSR Data archive for more than 700 academic institutions and research organizations (predominantly US, but some Canadian and other countries as well). ICPSR has more than 500,000 files of research in the social sciences and hosts 16 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism and other fields (source: ICPSR "About ICPSR").
Statista, a multidisciplinary database that aggregates information covering 80,000 topics
Trade Analyser @ CHASS provides web interfaces for Canadian International Merchandise Trade (CIMT) database and World trade database produced by Statistics Canada, International Trade Division