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Statistics
Find current and historical statistics about the region. See also Stanford University Libraries' guide "Find statistics."
Statistics on a vast array of subjects from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union.
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.
Try selecting your topic from the left-hand column, or selecting Government Information: International and Foreign.
Find statistics using SearchWorks
Use SearchWorks to find current and, especially, historical statistics on your topic. To find statistical periodicals for your country, try: [country] statistics periodicals. Other useful searches: [country] [topic] statistics. Or even just: [topic] statistics. You can find both online and hardcopy (books and periodicals) formats this way. Examples:
Tiranë : Drejtoria e Statistikës,
SAL1&2 (on-campus shelving) » Temporary shelving » HA1659 .A5 A35 1971/1972
Albanian statistical yearbook. Search was: Albania statistics periodicals.
Washington, DC : USAID
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » eResource
Alternative title: USAID country health statistical report, Bulgaria. Example of an online resource findable by using SearchWorks with the search: [country] [topic] statistics. Here the search was: Bulgaria health statistics.
New York : Greenwood Press, 1992.
Green Library » Jonsson Social Sciences Reading Room » HA37 .E93 G69 1992
For census data use SearchWorks with the search: [country] census. Here the search was: Yugoslavia census. This work will also help you to find census data that is harder to retrieve.
2. Aufl. Wien, Tendler, 1860.
SAL3 (off-campus storage) » Stacks » HA1186 .S3 1860
Search was: Austria-Hungary statistics. Try also: Austria statistics, then sort by year (old to new).
Search was: Poland statistics, then sorted by year (old to new).
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.)