Research Guides: Model United Nations Resources: Country Profiles

UN Member States | Embassies

UN Member States | Embassies
Links to all the member states of the UN, including websites, embassy contact information, dates of admission and UN Statistics on the state.

Country Overviews

Political Handbook of the World This link opens in a new window
Information on the major aspects of each country's government and political party system, including: heads of government, heads of state, ambassadors, historical trends, regime changes, constitutional history, and regional and global policy issues of concern.

World Constitutions Illustrated | HeinOnline
Listing of various countries' constitutions and fundamental laws. Also includes commentaries, scholarly works, and bibliographies discussing the constitution.
World Factbook | CIA
The standard source for basic information about a foreign country, produced by the CIA. Look up your country to discover it's trading partners and geographic neighbors. You will probably want to print or bookmark this information to take with you to the Model UN.
Country Studies | Library of Congress
Contains the electronic versions of 80 books previously published in hard copy as part of the Country Studies Series by the Federal Research Division. These books remain in the series because they continue to offer valuable historical information and perspective.
Country Voting Records and Speeches | United Nations
The UN's Bibliographic Information System lets you research your country's speeches and voting records. Use the search tools to find your country.
Fact Sheets | US State Department
Fact sheets by the Department of State with detailed information about the diplomatic relations between the United States and other governments
Country Profiles | BBC News
Another excellent source for information about a foreign country, compiled by the BBC News. Includes links to news stories about the country and media outlets in the country.
Oxford Analytica Country Profiles
Country Overviews from Oxford.
OxResearch Country Profiles
This database provides succinct analytical articles covering world and regional economic and political developments of major significance.
Country Profiles | IMUNA
General overviews of member states as well as information on relations, history and key statistics.

Country Data and Statistics

Country List | UN Comtrade
A database of over 170 countries reporting annual international trade statistics data detailed by commodities and partner countries to the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD).
Country Profiles | The World Bank
Country profiles present the latest key development data drawn from the World Development Indicators (WDI) database, the World Bank's primary database for cross-country comparable development data.
Country Profiles | UN Data
Find statistical overviews, economic and social indicators, environment, and trade profiles of member states.
Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Country Data
Economic and business statistics of countries from The Economist.
Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Country Finance & Forecast Reports
Recent developments and key government policies. Short- to medium-term outlook, including forecasts for economic growth, inflation, monetary and fiscal policy, exchange rates and the external sector. Key forecast data, with regional comparisons. Includes GDP, expenditure, population, fiscal indicators, prices and financial indicators, current account, external debt, international reserves, foreign trade, capital flows, exchange rates, money supply, interest rates, retail sales and industrial production.
Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) ViewsWire
Economic, political and business developments for a country.
Country Profiles | US Census
Collects basic statistics and projections from a wide variety of countries. Create a custom report by selecting report type, years to include, and/or countries to compare.
Oxford Analytica Country Profiles
Country Overviews from Oxford.
Oxford Analytica Daily Brief Service
The Daily Brief delivers timely, impartial and actionable analysis of emerging trends and developments in the global political economy, using a unique combination of external experts and in-house analysts.
Oxford Economics By Country Industry Forecast
These user-friendly reports provide detailed data, forecasts and graphs, plus summary analysis, for every main manufacturing sector and sub-sector in each country.
Oxford Economics Country Economic Forecast
These reports examine the latest economic developments and policy changes, but also include risk assessments and long-term forecasts for key economic indicators.
OxResearch Country Profiles
This database provides succinct analytical articles covering world and regional economic and political developments of major significance.
PUMS Data | United States Census
The American Community Survey (ACS) Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) files are a set of untabulated records about individual people or housing units. PUMS files are perfect for people, such as students, who are looking for greater accessibility to inexpensive data for research projects. Social scientists often use the PUMS for regression analysis and modeling applications.
IPUMS | Internation PUMS Data
IPUMS provides census and survey data from around the world integrated across time and space. IPUMS integration and documentation makes it easy to study change, conduct comparative research, merge information across data types, and analyze individuals within family and community context.

Map Collections

United Nations Map Collection

The United Nations Library has more than 80,000 maps, some 3,000 atlases, gazetteers, and reference material. The most recent material can be found in UNBISnet.