Agriculture

The Virtual library of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.
Food and Agriculture Organization (United Nations) - Statistics on agriculture, fisheries, forestry, land use, and population data bases. Searchable by commodity or country with various outputs, some time series date back to 1961.
FAO Document Repository - Full text of many FAO reports since 1986, three different search engines provide a combination approach by title, document owner, series number, date, and language.
State of Food and Agriculture - A textual file of agricultural issues worldwide and in individual countries, includes summary graphs of agricultural, fisheries, and forestry production; food shortages, and foreign assistance.
State of Food Insecurity in the World, 2001 (FAO) - Appendices provide number and percent of people in less developed countries who are undernourished. Calories available per person, main starchy food, and life expectancy (as low as 40 in some African countries).
World Resources, 1996/97 - Numerous statistical tables in Adobe Acrobat format with country data, population and economic data, environmental data including forestry, fisheries, water, weather, and pesticide use.
Africa Information Bureau - Country information, social and economic initiatives. Statistics and maps on crops, and economic development

Business & Industry

Business.com, the business search engine - provides information on industry specific sources and detailed information on 10,000 US public companies, 14,000 International companies and 44,000 recently added private companies: profiles, executive biographies, financials, news and more.
The Sectoral and Trade Database - market access sectoral and trade barriers database can be searched either by a country, a sector, or a measure.
Best managed companies - includes an intractive database.
Wall Street Research Net - Over 190,000 links with tips for the professional and private investor. Companies on the financial markets with links to stock history, SEC filings, company newsletters; searchable by keyword, Daily stock quotes and links to both foreign and domestic markets.
Company Annual Reports Online - Annual reports of European companies, searchable by name or type of business
Forbes 500 - Search the top 500 companies by name, industry, state, sales, profits, and assets.
Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For - Ranked listing of companies based on employee benefits, stock options, compensation, turnover rates, and hiring plans.
Global 500 - Revenues, earnings, employees, stock price returns, and current stock prices for the top 500.
Price's List of Lists - Links to rating services for the top businesses and executive pay.
Financial Data and Resource Locators - provides a huge selection of links to material on international finance, banking, stocks exchanges. International in focus yet an excellent gateway to Asian financial contents, this site is the part of Statistical Data Locators.

ExportOnline - export and import figures can be obtained by country or by industry. Data taken from the Commodity Trade Statistics Database (Comtrade) of the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD).
International Trade Centre - UN program for trade promotion, the website contains useful global trade statistics(import/export) by country & products. see also aggregated trade (import/export) statistics by country & by product.
Download International Trade data (WTO)
Global Trade Center - Provides many valuable international trade services for manufacturers, importers, exporters, trade service businesses and opportunity seekers.
The Sectoral and Trade Database - market access sectoral and trade barriers database can be searched either by a country, a sector, or a measure.
B&E Datalinks - Website created by American Statistical Association containing ranked links to international data sources including business, economic and statistics.
Country Reports On Economic Policy and Trade Practices - Released by the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, US Dept of State.
China - Statistic Data - Useful economic and trade statistics maintained by the Chinese government.
Foreign Trade Statistics by US Census Bureau - Current, historical statistics, balance with US, top trading partners of US.
Hong Kong Trade Statistics - Trade statistics maintained by Information Technology Department of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council.
Malaysia Trade Statistics - Maintained by the Malaysian Ministry of International Trade and Industry.
National Statistics of Taiwan, the Republic of China
OECD Statistics
PUSDATA Online Indonesia - Trade statistics maintained by the Ministry of Industry and Trade, Indonesia.
Searchable SIC codes 1987 Standard Industrial Classification Manual.
IMF World Economic Outlook Sep 2002
Handbook of International Economic Statistics.