Journalism: Fact Checking

U.S. Census-powered site that provides access to data about the United States, Puerto Rico and the Island Areas.

The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.

Eurostat's mission is to be the leading provider of high quality statistics on Europe. Browse charts, graphs, and maps focused on: EU policy indicators, general and regional statistics, economy and finance, population and social conditions, industry, trade and services, agriculture and fisheries, external trade, transport, environment and energy, and science and technology. Click 'country profiles' on the right for country specific information.

Economic and financial data for countries around the world and predictions for the years ahead. Updated twice a year, in April and October.

Data on Parliaments around the world including date of election, structure, composition, gender balance.

NHIS data on a broad range of health topics, collected through personal household interviews. Survey results have been instrumental in providing data to track health status, health care access and progress toward achieving national health objectives.

Data on military spending, arms transfers.

Yearly “snapshots” of agency activities, statistics on “unaccompanied alien children,” “Use of Force” reports and more.

The World Bank's statistics on key economic and social indicators for most countries in the world, presented with plenty of metadata and options for visualization.

The data repository contains statistics on tuberculosis, child mortality rates, tobacco control and more, in six languages.

Data on emissions of greenhouse gases by country from the World Resource Institute.

Verification tools, image searching, geosearching and more.

A web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature.

The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that was founded to build an internet library. It includes texts, audio, moving images and software as well as archived web pages (The Wayback Machine), the TV Political Internet Archive, and more. ALSO A GREAT SOURCE OF PUBLICLY AVAILABLE HISTORICAL FOOTAGE

Research on world affairs; declassified documents on security issues around the world, hosted by George Washington University.

Where the money's going and where it's coming from in U.S. elections.

A searchable index of websites that have been reviewed for quality and credibility.