Country Economic Profiles

Basic Country Information

CIA World Factbook. 

 http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html   

 

U.S. Department of State.  Background Notes.

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/      

 

Information by Country.UNICEF.           

http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/index.html

Top Corporations by Country:

 Hoover's Most viewed Company Directory

 http://www.hoovers.com/free/mvc/country.xhtml 

Fortune Magazine's Global 500

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/global500/2008/countries

GlobalEDGE. Michigan State University

http://globaledge.msu.edu/countryInsights/  after selecting country, select “corporations”  Then sort results by assets, profits or market share to get the largest companies.  This site is pretty interesting, with some info not easily located elsewhere.

Standard of Living:

World Health Organization. 

http://www.who.int/en/

 Human Development Reports. United Nations.

http://hdr.undp.org/en/countries/     (click on name of country to get full statistics...NOT Factsheet)

Food Consumed by Region:

http://www.who.int/nutrition/topics/3_foodconsumption/en/index.html

 

Other Rankings:

2009 Index of Economic Freedom.  Wall Street Journal and Heritage Foundation.  (Be sure to read about the criteria for the rankings.)

http://www.heritage.org/index/Ranking.aspx

 

Additional information about issues and events concerning a country can be found by checking the following databases:

Newsbank

Grolier Encyclopedias