Country data

Going Global writes on Comprehensive Comparative Country Data Just a Click Away

In doing some research on an issue the other day I came across NationMaster.com (http://www.nationmaster.com/statistics). With two simple pull down menus -- one to select among 30 categories, ranging from "education" or "media" to "disasters" or "lifestyles"; and one to select the individual Nationmaster_site statistic that you are interested in, for example "personal computers per capita by country" -- you can search hundreds of statistical descriptors and quickly produce data driven bar charts that compare all the countries in the world relative to your selected inquiry. Fort many inquiries, you can also have the data plotted in pie charts or displayed on a map. And at least the way the site works at the moment, you can perform as many independent searches as you'd like for FREE.