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Statistics
Find current and historical statistics about the region. See also Stanford University Libraries' guide "Find statistics."
Database of publications from Russian central statistical agency (Goskomstat) and the statistical agency of Commonwealth of Independent States beginning about 1996. Includes Russian population census of 2002. (Search engine here does not work like Google: use AND between terms if you want both of them to occur in articles you retrieve.)
Includes international statistical publications from the UN, EU, OECD, etc. Coverage 1983- Full text 2007-
E-book containing statistical data from around the world, covering a wide range of socio-economic topics. Coverage: 1750-2010. Tables can be downloaded as PDFs or Excel files.
Links to other countries’ statistical agencies, provided by U.S. Census Bureau. Most statistical agencies put a great deal of statistical information online, often without charge.
Find statistics using SearchWorks
Use SearchWorks to find current and, especially, historical statistics on your topic. Below are some examples of searches and what you can find with them. You can find both online and hardcopy (books and periodicals) formats this way.
Washington, DC : USAID
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Alternative title: USAID country health statistical report, Uzbekistan. Example of an online resource findable by using SearchWorks with the search: [country] [topic] statistics. Here the search was: Uzbekistan health statistics.
Paris OECD
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Example of an online resource findable by using SearchWorks with the search: [topic] statistics. Here the search was: energy statistics.
Baku : Upravlenie,
Hoover Library » Microfilm » NX2601 MFILM
Find historical and current statistics by looking for statistical serials. Example search: [country] statistics serials. In this case the search was: Azerbaijan statistics serials.
New Haven, Yale University Press; London, H. Milford, Oxford University Press, for the Carnegie endowment for international peace, Division of economics and history, 1932.
Hoover Library » Stacks » HC56 .C365 V.16
Book found with this search: Russia World War casualties statistics.
Alma-Ata : [s.n.], 1926-
Hoover Library » Stacks » HC337.K3 N3 OCT./NOV.1931
For economic statistics try looking for publications with "narodnoe khoziaistvo" in their titles. In this case the search was: Kazakhstan narodnoe khoziaistvo.
Khabarovsk, 1925.
Hoover Library » Folio » HA1877 .D3 A25 F
The term "statistics" can be used with geographical entities other than countries. Here the search was: Dalnevostochnyi krai statistics. (Note that this search deliberately leaves out the miagkii znak in the transliterated form "Dal'nevostochnyi.")
Geographical information and maps
Find current and historical geographical information about the region. See also Stanford University Libraries' guide "Gazetteers."
Brief, up-to-date information about countries from U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Includes maps that can be freely copied, since there is no copyright on U.S. government information.
Online historical maps, posted by the Federation of East European Family History Societies. Includes entire Russian Empire, with Asian part, as well as eastern Europe.
Extensive collection of online maps from the University of Texas at Austin.
Extremely detailed, searchable gazetteer, which includes even small villages, geographic features, etc., throughout the world. (Transliterate Cyrillic names using ya, yu, etc., instead of ia, iu, etc. Also use y for Й.)
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