GSM 7261: Businesses in France: Country info (data)

The Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Eéconomiques / French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies ("INSEE") collects, analyses and disseminates information on the French economy and society across the entire French territory. "INSEE operates with total professional independence."

Produces high quality uniform sets of statistics in partnership with National Statistical Institutes and other national authorities from all EU member countries. This partnership is known as the European Statistical System (ESS). It also includes the statistical authorities of the European Economic Area (EEA) countries and Switzerland as well as coordinating statistical activities across the EU and the European Commission.

Quick, easy to use system, to obtain the current or historical population of any country, as far back as 1950, or projections of population as far forward as 2050. You can also get aggregates of combined global population, as well as "Population Clocks" for the US and the World.

Over 30 categories of time series datasets are available covering international economic & financial topics available at the country level. Also offers predefined datasets of economic & financial info as a series for each country. You can also create customized reports, select a time span, select a country, select a variable, to create your own time series reports of specific variables. Everything can be downloaded into Excel spreadsheets. You will need to create a free personal IMF customer account in order to access the customizable data extraction options.

Provides purchasing power parity and national income accounts converted to international prices for 188 countries for some or all of the years 1950-2017. The European Union or the OECD provide more detailed purchasing power and real product estimates for their countries and the World Bank makes current price estimates for most PWT countries at the GDP level.

Although there is a bit of a lag before each year's edition comes out, this is a behemoth resource at over 800 pages in length. It is available as a quick loading PDF, and the contents are fully searchable using the "FIND" commands. It also has a conventional Table of Contents, and an Index to help find specific types of data.

A simple alphabetical listing of every country in the world that has an official government agency dedicated to collecting & analyzing statistics about that country, and clickable links to each of those official agencies.