UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics

http://stats.unctad.org/handbook/

Various bodies of the United Nations are having an informal competition on who can produce the stats database that's hardest to use. UNCTAD has made a fine effort, with this database, which requires registration, contains lots of great trade, investment, commodity price, remittance, foreign exchange reserves, and other data, and is nearly incomprehensible. But they may have been outdone by the UN Stats Division, which also has a user interface of mind-boggling complexity: UN Trade Database. The U.S. Census site is easier and more up-to-date, but only has U.S. data.

KEYWORDS: foreign investment statistics, foreign trade statistics, commodity prices, remittances, foreign exchange reserves