Projects > Countries
http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/cidaweb/acdicida.nsf/En/NIC-5482847-GN3
--Canadian International Development Agency
--Compare Canada to your country by opening your country's page and going to "Facts at a Glance"
http://www.nationmaster.com/index.php
--Nationmaster site
--This site can generate graphs.
http://hdr.undp.org/reports/global/2002/en/indicator/indicator.cfm?File=index_indicators.html
UN Human Development Report
--All kinds of statistics! This site makes an excellent starting place.
http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/
--Unicef Information by Country
--Information, by country, about children
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
--CIA World Factbook
--Produced by the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States, this site gives basic up-to-date statistics about most countries.
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/social/default.htm
--Statistics Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs
--Covers these areas: Population, Youth and elderly populations, Human settlements, Water supply and sanitation, Housing, Health, Child-bearing, Education, Illiteracy, Income and economic activity, Unemployment
http://www.prb.org
--Population Reference Bureau (a U.S. organization which gathers data on world population trends)
--Check the World Population Data Sheet (link on the right) and the sidebar of topics on the left.