Foreign Historical Statistics

• Bloomfield, G.T.  New Zealand:  A Handbook of Historical Statistics.  Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, 1984.
  Perkins/Bostock Reference HA3184 .B55 1984

Contains historical, economic, social, and political statistics for New Zealand from 1831-1976.

• Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.  Historical Statistics of Japan (available electronically)

Contains economic, social, demographic, and political statistics for the country of Japan for 1868 to 2002.

• Mitchell, B.R.  International historical statistics:  Africa, Asia and Oceania, 1750-2000.  4th ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
  Perkins/Bostock Reference HA4675 .M552 2003

A comprehensive source of historical statistics for every country in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. 

• Vamplew, Wray, ed.  Australians: Historical Statistics. Broadway, N.S.W., Australia: Fairfax, Syme & Weldon Associates, 1987.
  Perkins/Bostock Reference HA3005 .A98 1987

A comprehensive source of historical statistics for Australia, covering the time period of initial British colonization to the 1980s.

• United Nations. Statistical Yearbook for Asia and the Pacific [serial]. Bangkok, Thailand: Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 1973-present.
  Latest issue in Perkins/Bostock Reference U.N. ST/ESCAP/STAT*/.  Earlier issues in Perkins/Boctock stacks.

Contains economic, social, demographic, and political statistics for Asia and the Pacific for 1992-2002.