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National Statistical Offices

Country	Link to the Statistical Office
ABW	Central Bureau of Statistics Aruba
AFG	Central Statistics Office, Afghanistan
AGO	Instituto Nacional de Estatístiica, República de Angola
AIA	Anguilla's Statistics Department
ALB	Instituti i Statistikës, Tiranë
AND	Servei d'Estudis del Ministeri de Finances, Andorra
ARE	Ministry of Economy, United Arab Emirates
ARG	Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos de la Republica Argentina
ARM	National Statistical Service of the Republic of Armenia
ATG	Antigua & Barbuda Statistics Division
AUS	Australian Bureau of Statistics
AUT	Statistik Austria
AZE	State Statistical Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan
BDI	Institut de Statistiques et d'Etudes Economiques du Burundi
BEL	Statistics Belgium, NIS-INS, Ministry of Economic Affairs
BEN	Institut National de la Statistique Benin
BFA	Institut National de la Statistique et de la Demographie, Burkina Faso
BGD	Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics
BGR	National Statistical Institute Bulgaria
BHR	Central Informatics Organization, State of Bahrain
BHS	Department of Statistics, Bahamas
BIH	Federal Office of Statistics of the Federation of Bosnia & Herzegovina
BIH	Agency for Statistics of Bosnia & Herzegovina
BIH	Republika Srpska Institute of Statistics
BLR	National Statistical Committee of the Republic of Belarus
BLZ	Belize Central Statistical Office
BMU	Department of Statistics, Government of Bermuda
BOL	Instituto Nacional de Estadística, República de Bolivia
BRA	Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatistica
BRB	Barbados Statistical Service
BRN	Department of Economic Planning and Development, Brunei
BTN	National Statistics Bureau, Royal Government of Bhutan
BWA	Central Statistic Office, Republic of Botswana
CAF	Division des Statistiques, des Etudes Economiques et Sociales, Republique Centralafricaine
CAN	Statistics Canada
CHE	Bundesamt für Statistik, Schweiz
CHL	Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas, Santiago de Chile
CHN	China National Bureau of Statistics
CIS	Interstate Statistical Committee of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CISStat)
CMR	Institut National de la Statistique Cameroun
COG	Centre National de la Statistique, Republique du Congo
COK	Cook Islands Statistics Division
COL	Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadistica, Republica de Columbia
CPV	Instituto Nacional de Estatística, Cabo Verde
CRI	Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos, Costa Rica
CUB	Sitio del Gobierno de la República de Cuba
CUB	Oficina Nacional de Estadisticas, República de Cuba
CUW	Central Bureau of Statistics, Curaçao
CVI	Institut National de la Statistique, Republique de Côte d'Ivoire
CYM	Government of the Cayman Islands, Economics and Statistics Office
CYP	Statistical Service, Republic of Cyprus
CZE	Czech Statistical Office
DEU	Statistisches Bundesamt Deutschland
DJI	Ministère des Finances Djibouti
DMA	Government of the Commonwealth of Dominica
DNK	Denmark Statistik (StatBank)
DOM	La Oficina Nacional de Estadística, República Dominicana
DZA	Office National des Statistiques de l'Algérie
ECU	El Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos del Ecuador
EGY	Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics, Egypt
ESP	Instituto Nacional de Estadística, España
EST	Statistical Office of Estonia
ETH	Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia
FIN	Statistics Finland
FJI	Fiji Islands Bureau of Statistics
FLK	Falkland Islands Government
FRA	Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques, Paris, France
FRO	Hagstova Føroya, Statistics Faroe Islands
FSM	FSM Office of Statistics, Budget and Economic Management, Overseas Development Assistance and Compact Management
FSM	FSM Division of Statistics
GBR	UK National Statistics
GBR	The Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency
GBR	General Register Office for Scotland
GEO	State Department for Statistics of Georgia
GGY	States of Guersey - Government Website
GHA	Ghana Statistical Service
GIB	Statistics Office Gibraltar
GIN	Direction Nationale de la Statistique de Guinée
GMB	Gambia Bureau of Statistics
GNB	Instituto Nacional de Estatística Guiné-Bissau
GNQ	Dirección General de Estadisticas y Cuentas Nacionales, Republica de Guinea Ecuatorial
GRC	General Secretariat of National Statistical Service of Greece
GRL	Kalaallit Nunanni Naatsorsueqqissaartarfik
GTM	Instituto Nacional de Estadistica Guatemala
GUM	Guam Bureau of Statistics and Plans
GUY	Bureau of Statistics Guyana
HKG	Census and Statistics Department, SAR Hong Kong
HND	Instituto Nacional de Estadística Honduras
HRV	Croatian Bureau of Statistics
HTI	Institut Haïtien de Statistique et d'Informatique
HUN	Hungarian Central Statistical Office
IDN	Badan Pusat Statistik, Republik Indonesia
IMN	Isle of Man Treasury Department - Economic Affairs
IND	Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India
IRL	Central Statistics Office, Ireland
IRN	Statistical Centre of Iran
IRQ	Central Organization for Statistics and Information Technology Iraq
ISL	Statistics Iceland
ISR	Central Bureau of Statistics, The State of Israel
ITA	Geodemo Statistiche Demografiche dell'ISTAT
ITA	Istituto Nazionale di Statistica, Italia
JAM	Statistical Institute of Jamaica
JAP	Statistics Bureau Japan
JEY	States of Jersey: Government and Administration
JOR	Department of Statistics, Jordan
KAZ	The Agency of Statistics of the Republic of Kazakhstan
KEN	Central Bureau of Statistics, Kenya
KGZ	National Statistical Committee of Kyrgyz Republic
KHM	National Institute of Statistics of Cambodia
KIR	Kiribati National Statistics Office
KOR	Statistics Korea
KOS	Statistical Office of Kosovo
KUW	Kuwait Public Authority for Civil Information
KWT	Central Statistical Office, State of Kuwait
LAO	National Statistics Centre of the Lao PDR
LAT	Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia
LBN	Central Administration for Statistics, Lebanese Republic
LBR	Liberia Institute of Statistics & Geo-Information Services
LCA	St. Lucia Government Statistics Department
LIE	Fürstentum Liechtenstein
LIE	Amt für Statistik, Landesverwaltung Liechtenstein
LKA	Departement of Census and Statistics Sri Lanka
LSO	Lesotho Bureau of Statistics
LTU	Department of Statistics, Republic of Lithuania
LUX	Le Portail des Statistiques du Luxembourg
MAC	Direcção dos Serviços de Estatística e Censos, Macau
MAR	Haut Commissariat au Plan, Royaume du Maroc
MCO	Monaco Portail officiel du Gouvernement Princier
MDA	Departamentul Statistica si Sociologie al Republicii Moldova
MDG	Institut National de la Statistique Madagascar
MDV	Ministry of Planning & National Development, Republic of Maldives
MEX	Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía, Mexico
MHL	Economic Policy, Planning and Statistics Office, Republic of the Marshall Islands
MKD	State Statistical Office, Republic of Macedonia
MLI	Institut National de la Statistiques, République du Mali
MLT	National Statistics Office Malta
MMR	Myanmar Central Statistical Organization
MNE	Statistical Office of Montenegro
MNG	Mongolian National Statistical Office
MNP	CNMI Department of Commerce
MOZ	Instituto Nacional de Estatistica Moçambique
MRT	Office National de la Statistique, Mauretanie
MUS	Central Statistical Office of Mauritius
MWI	National Statistical Office of Malawi
MYS	Department of Statistics Malaysia
NAM	National Planning Commission of Namibia
NAM	Namibia Statistics Agency
NCL	Institut de la Statistique et des Études Économiques Nouvelle-Calédonie
NER	Institut National de la Statistique du Niger
NFK	Norfolk Island Government
NGA	National Bureau of Statistics Nigeria
NIC	Instituto Nacional de Información de Desarrollo, Nicaragua
NIU	Statistics Niue
NLD	Statistics Netherlands
NOR	Statistics Norway
NPL	Central Bureau of Statistics, Nepal
NRU	Nauru Bureau of Statistics
NZL	Statistics New Zealand
OIA	OIA Statistics Online
OMN	Sultanate of Oman, Ministry of National Economy
PAK	Population Census Organization, Pakistan
PAN	Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censo, Panamá
PER	Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática, Peru
PHL	National Statistics Office of the Philippines
PLW	Office of Planning & Statistics, Republic of Palau
PNG	National Statistical Office of Papua New Guinea
POL	Central Statistical Office Poland
PRT	Associação Nacional de Municípios Portugueses
PRT	Instituto Nacional de Estatística Portugal
PRY	Paraguay Dirección General de Estadísticas, Encuestas y Censos
PSE	Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
PYF	Institute Statistique de Polynésie Française
QAT	Statistics Authority Qatar
RoSS	Southern Sudan Centre for Census Statistics and Evaluation
ROU	Romania National Institute of Statistics
RUS	Federal State Statistics Service Russia
RUS	Russia Census 2010
RWA	National Institute of Statistics Rwanda
SAU	Central Department of Statistics and Information, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
SEN	Agence Nationale de la Statistique et de la Démographie, Sénégal
SGP	Singapore Department of Statistics
SHN	Saint Helena Government
SLB	Solomon Islands National Statistics Office
SLE	Statistics Sierra Leone
SLV	Dirección General de Estadistica y Censos, El Salvador
SMR	Ufficio Programmazione Economica, Centro di Elaborazione Dati e Statistica, San Marino
SRB	Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia
STP	Instituto Nacional de Estatística, República Democrática de São Tomé e Príncipe
SUD	Central Bureau of Statistics Sudan
SUR	Algemeen Bureau voor de Statistiek in Suriname
SVK	Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic
SVN	Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia
SWE	Statistiska Centralbyrån (SCB), Sverige
SWZ	The Central Statistical Office Swaziland
SYC	National Statistics Bureau, Seychelles
SYR	Central Bureau of Statistics, Syrian Arab Republic
TCA	Department of Economic Planning and Statistics, Turks and Caicos Islands
TCD	Institut National de la Statistique, des Études Économiques et Démographiques du Tchad
TGO	Direction Générale de la Statistique et de la Comptabilité Nationale, République Togolaise
THA	National Statistical Office, Thailand
TJK	State Statistical Committee of the Republic of Tajikistan
TKL	Tokelau: Statistical Unit
TKM	State Committee for Statistics, Turkmenistan
TLS	National Directorate of Statistics Timor-Leste
TON	Tonga Statistics Department
TRNC	TRNC State Planning Organization
TTO	Central Statistical Office, Trinidad and Tobago
TUN	Institut National de la Statistique Tunisie
TUR	Republic of Turkey, State Institute of Statistics
TUV	Tuvalu Central Statistics Division
TWN	National Statistics, Republic of China
TWN	Ministry of Interior, Republic of China
TZA	National Bureau of Statistics Tanzania
UGA	Uganda Bureau of Statistics
UKR	State Statistics Committee of Ukraine
UN	UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division
URY	Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Uruguay
USA	US Census Bureau
UZB	State Committee of Uzbekistan on Statistics
VCT	Statistical Office, St. Vincent and the Grenadines
VEN	Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Venezuela
VGB	Government of the Virgin Islands (UK), Development Planning Unit
VNM	General Statistics Office of Vietnam
VUT	Vanuatu National Statistics Office
WLF	STSEE Wallis-et-Futuna
WSM	Samoa Statistical Services Division
YEM	Central Statistical Organisation Yemen
ZAF	Statistics South Africa
ZMB	Central Statistical Office Zambia
ZWE	Central Statistical Office Zimbabwe

International Web Resources

Link	Explanation
CIA World Fact Book	Country profiles and small static maps.
Flags of the World	Large site about flags.
Global Statistics - GeoHive	Country profiles: main cities and especially administrative divisions with their capitals, surface area and population; often several levels of administrative divisions.
Global Administrative Areas (GADM)	GADM is a spatial database of the boundaries of the world's administrative areas for use in GIS.
NIMA Geo Name Server	Web site presenting the name(s) and coordinates of many localities in the world.
OpenStreetMap	Project that creates and provides free geographic data especially about streets and other points of interest; contains partly also administrative boundaries.
Population Statistics - Historical Demography	Growth of the population per country in a historical perspective, including their administrative divisions and principal towns.
PRISM	Statistics of the pacific island countries and territories by the Secretariat of the Pacific Community.
Population Statistics of Eastern Europe	Detailed population statistics for Eastern and Middle Europe.
Statoids	Information about the administrative divisions of countries.
UN Statistics Division: Demographic Yearbook.	Population of countries, capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants
UN Statistics Division: Census Dates	Overview over census dates and some links.
US Census Bureau: Statistical Agencies (International)	Links to almost all home pages of statistical offices and agencies in the world.
Wikipedia, the free encyclodia	The free encyclopedia provides many facts about countries and cities, however, of varying quality.
World Gazetteer	Current population figures for cites and administrative areas; the presented population figures are projected for the current year using older censuses and estimates.

International Yearbooks

Abbr.	Title	Publisher
BOY	Britannica Book of the Year	Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., Chicago
CA	Cartactual	Budapest
DYB	Demographic Yearbook	UN, Dept. of Int. Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office, New York
EYB	The Europa World Year Book	Europa Publications Limited
HCW	Hammond Citation World Atlas	Hammond World Atlas Corp., Union, NJ
IA	Internationaler Atlas	Rand McNally, Westermann
MEW	Encarta Weltatlas	Microsoft
PGM	Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen	Gotha
SDA	Statistik des Auslands	Statistisches Bundesamt, Wiesbaden / Metzler-Poeschel Verlag, Stuttgart
SYB	The Statesman's Year-Book	The MacMillan Press Limited, London; W. DeGruyter, Berlin
WA	Der Fischer Weltalmanach	Fischer Taschenbuchverlag, Frankfurt am Main
WUP	World Urbanization Prospects	UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division