Princeton has a collection of current volumes of the statistical abstracts of many foreign countries containing statistics on a broad range of subjects. Current editions are shelved by country name in the DSS collection (Firestone Library - A Floor). For older editions consult the Catalog or the microfiche collection on A Floor of Firestone.
Some countries make their statistical yearbooks available online. Recent yearbooks from selected countries are contained in Statistical Abstracts of the World (ProQuest). See also the guide to Historical Compilations.
Instituto Brasileiro de Geografía e Estatística (IBGE), Brasil
Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística (DANE), Colombia
Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos (INEC), Costa Rica
Oficina Nacional de Estadística (ONE), Dominican Republic
Dirección General de Estadística y Censos (DIGESTYC), El Salvador
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Guatemala
Institut Haïtien de Statistique et d’Informatique (IHSI), Haiti
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Honduras
Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (INEGI), Mexico
Instituto Nacional de Información de Desarrollo (INIDE), Nicaragua
Dirección General de Estadística, Encuestas y Censos (DGEEC), Paraguay
Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática (INEI), Peru
Instituto Nacional de Estatística, Portugal
Central Statistical Office (CSO), Trinidad and Tobago
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Venezuela
International historical statistics: the Americas 1750-2005. Brian Mitchell. 6th ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Available online as part of International historical statistics, 1750-2010 and in print.
Montevideo-Oxford Latin American Economic History Database
Statistical series for economic and social indicators covering 20 Latin American countries.1900-2010.
Memoria Estatística do Brasil
This project makes available publications with social, demographic, economic, financial and social statistics from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Research Guides:
Historical Statistics by Bobray Bordelon, Economics & Finance Librarian/Data Services Librarian
Historical Statistics by Steven Knowlton, Librarian for History and African American Studies