Foreign Historical Statistics

• Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.  Statistical Yearbook for Latin America and the Caribbean [serial].  (1985-present)
  Perkins/Bostock Reference U.N. E/CEPAL/S82*/

A comprehensive source of economic, social, demographic, and political statistics for Latin America covering the past twenty years. In Spanish and English.

• Leacy, F.H., ed.  Historical Statistics of Canada. 2nd ed. Ottawa: Statistics Canada, 1983.
  Available electronically and in Perkins/Bostock Reference HA745 .H57 1983.  Also available in Lilly Reference.

Demographic, economic, educational, and political statistics for Canada.  Time period covered is 1851-1975.

• Ludwig, Armin K. Brazil:  A Handbook of Historical Statistics.  Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall, 1985.
  Perkins/Bostock Reference HA984 .L83 1985

Contains historical, economic, social, and political statistics for Brazil from initial colonization to 1980.

• Mitchell, B.R.  International Historical Statistics: The Americas, 1750-2000. 5th ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
  Perkins/Bostock Reference HA175 .M55 2003

A comprehensive source of historical statistics for every country in North and South America, including the Caribbean. 

• Statistical Abstract of Latin America (1955-present).  Committee on Latin American Studies, University of California at Los Angeles.
  Latest issue in Perkins/Bostock Reference H935 .S8. Earlier issues in Perkins/Bostock stacks.

A comprehensive source of economic, social, demographic, and political statistics for Latin America covering the past twenty years.

• USAID.  Latin America and the Caribbean: Selected Economic and Social Data, 2007. Available electronically.

An excellent source for Latin American and Caribbean statistics organized by socio-economic sector from the 1960s to the present.  This is the online version of the LAC Databook.