Life in Different Cities: Data Websites

"Understand the world’s past, present, and future changes through unique visual animated graphs of hundreds of variables."

Explore your focus city from satellite photos!

"A wide range of data including agriculture, development, energy and the environment."

"Research and interactive data visualisations to understand the world’s largest problems by Oxford University." Use the search box at the top of the homepage to find your focus city.

"A comprehensive collection of data from the United Nations. Popular statistical tables, country (area) and regional profiles."

"The Environmental Data Explorer is the authoritative source for data sets used by UNEP and its partners in the Global Environment Outlook (GEO) report and other integrated environment assessments. Its online database holds more than 500 different variables, as national, subregional, regional and global statistics or as geospatial data sets (maps), covering themes like Freshwater, Population, Forests, Emissions, Climate, Disasters, Health and GDP. "

"A comprehensive data catalogue covering a range of development indicators."

"The World Factbook provides basic intelligence on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, environment, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 266 world entities." Select "Countries" from the top RHS to access data about your focus countries.

"Global statistics based on health-related issues by the World Health Organisation"

"This site allows you to create cartograms and analyze spreadsheets for hundreds of variables by country. It also allows you to download the data as spreadsheets and bring them into ArcGIS for Desktop for further analysis."