From the United Nations Development Programme, a composite index evaluating health, education, and living standards across the world's countries. 1980 - 2018.

Fertility and health surveys in Central America.

Surveys and data on religious membership in the U.S. and internationally.

A list of data sources specific to developing countries from Duke's Bureau for Research in Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD).

UNICEF's data on women and children including data from their core publications, The State of the World's Children and Progress for Children.

Huber, Ragin, Stephens et. al data on wages, salaries, public expenditures, more.

Quality-of-life score for 111 countries based on health, material well-being, and other measures.

Macro time series, micro time series, government finance, and social indicators including ethnic fractionalization, party fractionalization, regime changes, and fixed factors. 1960-99. Easterly and Yu.

World Health Organization data on country-level international health indicators. Tables, maps, data API, reports, and data query tools organized by broad topic. Scroll down for topics or click 'Indicators' to see all available measures.

The World Health Organization provides statistics on 70 core indicators for the 193 WHO member states, as well as extensive data on other international health concerns. Some indicators are are easier to find on this older platform. See also the newer Global Health Observatory.

"The ICVS is the most far-reaching program of standardized sample surveys to look at a householders' experience with crime, policing, crime prevention, and feelings of insecurity in a large number of nations."

Go to the Central Survey Catalog to access censuses and surveys done in developing countries, with metadata.

Data: Bilateral Migration Matrix + publications and other resources.

Maintained by the Minnesota Population Center, free internet access to microdata from 44 countries, 130 censuses.

Collection of household income surveys across dozens of countries.

Welfare systems in OECD countries.

Data on immigrants and refugees in U.S., Europe, and other countries.

Access detailed statistics, databases, and public use data files on all aspects of U.S. public health.

From Margaret Peters at Yale. Data on immigration policy for 19 countries from 1783-2010.

Variety of useful shared datasets covering regime types, elections, civil liberties, and much more.

Links to official UN historical estimates and projections for every country in the world, plus the Demographic Yearbook and other population information.

Enormous dataset with 1000+ cross-national variables ranging from governance to the economy from a large variety of sources.

Household and community surveys of Malaysia, Indonesia, and Guatemala.

Social measures monitored by the UN following conferences on children, women, development, and population.

Social and economic indicators for women and children in Central and Eastern Europe, from UNICEF.

Demographic indicators for countries and areas of the world with populations of 5,000+; includes historic to 1950 and projections to 2050.

UN's Organization for Education, Science, and Culture gathers indicators relevant to education, literacy, technology, and culture.

Measures income inequality across countries, 1963-1999.

Income inequality for developed, developing, and transition countries. Includes Gini coefficient, quintile, and decile shares.

Migration by country by year (decennial) by gender.

From Minority Rights Groups International, country-by-country information.

41 participating countries.

The World Inequality Database aims to provide open and convenient access to the most extensive available database on the historical evolution of the world distribution of income and wealth, both within countries and between countries.WID.world combines different data sources: national accounts, survey data, fiscal data, and wealth rankings. By doing so, it becomes possible to track very precisely the evolution of all income or wealth levels, from the bottom to the top. The key novelty of the WID.world project is to use such data in a systematic manner, allowing comparisons between countries and over long time periods.

146 countries at 5-year intervals, 1950-2010.