Economic Growth Data

Asian Development Bank Statistics

The Asian Development Bank maintains a database of statistical information on developing member countries. The available statistics include information on national income and product accounts, trade, price indexes, population and labor force statistics, government finance, monetary statistics, and energy use statistics.

Barro-Lee 1993 data

This data set includes cross-country panel data on output and educational inputs and outputs.

Center for International Development data (Harvard University)

The Center for International Development at Harvard provides online access to the data from the studies by:

• Robert J. Barro and Jong-Wha Lee,
• David E. Bloom, David Canning, and Pia N. Malane
• John L. Gallup and Jeffrey D. Sachs, with Andrew Mellinger
• Ricardo Hausmann, Lant Pritchett and Dani Rodrik
• Donald F. Larson, Rita Butzer, Yair Mundlak, and Al Crego
• Jeffrey D. Sachs and Andrew M. Warner
• The Task Force on Higher Education and Society
• Jeffrey R. Vincent

Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Debt Database

A database analyzing the debt characteristics of highly indebted low-income countries.

International Economics Gateway

Links to a variety of online data sites containing international data.

Internet Center for Corruption Research

A collection of data on a corruption perception index.

Macroeconomics and Growth Data (World Bank)

Links to a variety of data sets used in recent studies of economic growth.

Penn World Tables (at NBER)

This site contains the Summers-Heston data set that is frequently used by growth and development researchers.

Interactive access to Penn World Tables (official site)

An interactive site providing access to the Penn World Tables.