Guides: International Development: Data and Statistics

The starting places for development data

The principal development statistics producers are the big International Governmental Organizations.

Geographical Distribution of Financial Flows to Developing Countries / OECD
1998-present.
Annual report providing comprehensive data on volume, origin, and types of aids and other resource flows to individual developing countries.
World Development Indicators & Global Development Finance / World Bank
International Financial Statistics / IMF
AidData
Comprehensive and up-to-date project-level development finance and foreign aid data portal, covering multilateral and bilateral donor foreign aid projects during 1945-present. Includes OECD CRS data and data for donors not captured by CRS or the OECD ODA definitions (i.e., NGOs). Includes China.AidData, for Chinese international development project data.
International Development Statistics - DAC & CRS / OECD
UNCTADstat / UN Conference on Trade and Development
Unilateral and bilateral country-level time series on international trade, economic trends, foreign direct investment (FDI), external financial resources, commodities and maritime transport. Also includes data on the information economy and the creative economy.

EIU CityData
Price data on a wide range of goods and services in 123 cities worldwide from 1990 to the present . Data can be viewed by city, series or year.

DATA Report - Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa
Annual report on foreign aid to Africa. Now produced by ONE Campaign.
Financial Tracking Service (FTS) / UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
A centralized source of curated, continuously updated, fully downloadable data and information on humanitarian funding flows from national government donors, UN-administered funds, UN agencies, NGOs and other humanitarian actors and partners, 1980-present.

ForeignAssistance.gov
US Agency for International Development and US Department of States.
Data visualizations for US foreign assistance funding to individual countries. Data Download page provides spreadsheets for annual obligations (1946-present) and disbursements (2001-present) to individual countries in current and constant US dollars.
USAID Greenbook
aka U.S. Overseas Loans and Grants, Obligations and Loan Authorizations.
World Bank microdata library
Country-level survey data produced or sponsored by the World Bank. Includes downloadable datasets, codebooks, and questionnaires for Living Standards Measurement Studies (LSMS) and other household surveys.
Note. May require personal registration to download datasets.

China Data Online
China statistical publications, census data, and other statistical materials.

Data Portal / African Development Bank
An IATI-derived reporting tool for country-level resource flows into African countries. Also see:
• Map Africa / African Development Bank.
This snappy map tool locates and describes AfDB-funded projects throughout Africa, 2005-present.