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This data collection describes international and civil wars for the years 1816-1992. Main Topics: This data collection consists of two files:

Carried out under the auspices of the Data Development for International Research (DDIR) project, Polity II was designed to develop longnitudinal indicators of political structures and regime change. This file encompasses most member states of the international system from 1800 to 1986 and consists of annual codings of regimes' structural characteristics, institutional changes, and the directionality of changes on underlying dimensions of democracy, autocracy, and power concentration.

The United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database (UN Comtrade) contains detailed imports and exports statistics reported by statistical authorities of close to 200 countries or areas. It concerns annual trade data from 1962 to the most recent year. UN Comtrade is considered the most comprehensive trade database available with more than 1.1 billion records. A typical record is, for instance, the exports of cars from Germany to the United States in 2004 in terms of value (US dollars), weight and supplementary quantity (number of cars). The database is continuously updated.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) World Economic Outlook (WEO) database contains selected macroeconomic data series from the statistical appendix of the World Economic Outlook report, which presents the IMF staff's analysis and projections of economic developments at the global level, in major country groups and in many individual countries.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Government Finance Statistics (GFS) database provides current and internationally comparable annual time series data on the finances and fiscal policies of IMF member governments from 1972 onwards. Topics covered include:

• deficit/surplus or total financing
• revenues or grants, expenditures
• lending minus repayments
• domestic financing
• foreign financing
• domestic debt or total debt, and foreign debt

This database was first provided by ESDS International in November 2004.

The United Nations (UN) Common Database (UNCDB) is a major international databank that draws together hundreds of key human development indicators for all available countries and areas. It contains more than 300 statistical series for over 280 countries and in most cases time series are available from 1970 or 1980.The database contains statistics derived from 30 international data sources produced by organisations such as FAO, UNCTAD, UNSD, WHO, World Bank, UNAIDS and ITU.

Published annually by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) Development Assistance Committee (DAC), the International Development (Debt and Aid) Statistics provide up-to-date comparative statistics and information on international development from 1975 onwards, presented in the following key tables: External Debt Statistics (discontinued as of 2004)

The World Bank World Development Indicators (WDI) contain statistical data for over 600 development indicators for over 200 countries and 18 country groups running from 1960 onwards. The extensive collection of development data includes social, economic, financial, natural resources and environmental indicators.

The World Bank Global Development Finance Database contains more than 200 debt and financial flows indicators for over 130 countries that report public and publicly-guaranteed debt to the World Bank Debtor Reporting System. The database runs from 1970 onwards and covers external debt stocks and flows, major economic aggregates, and key debt ratios as well as average terms of new commitments, currency composition of long-term debt, debt restructuring, and scheduled debt service projections.

Published monthly since 1948, the International Financial Statistics (IFS) database is the principal statistical publication of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and is the standard source for all aspects of international and domestic finance. The database contains approximately 32,000 time series for over 200 countries and geographical areas.