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General Information Sources in ET2

Europa World Plus [including Europa World Year Book] is available to authorized IUB users only.

The World Factbook, PrEx3.15: (latest shelved SuDoc reference); for holdings and locations of other print editions see IUCAT.

The World Factbook

World Development Indicators, HC59.69.W68 (latest shelved ET2 reference desk); for other editions see IUCAT.

World Bank Data Catalog [includes World Development Indicators]

Statistical Yearbook for Asia and the Pacific; for holdings and shelving locations of print editions, see IUCAT.

Statistical Yearbook for Asia and the Pacific

Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 1996-

Country Information [from the State Dept. Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs]

Background Notes [from the State Dept., 1990- ]

Nepal and Bhutan: Country Studies, D101.22: 550-35/993 (SuDoc stacks)

Bhutan: A Country Study

Census/Population

International Data Base (IDB) (population statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau)

World Population Policies; for holdings and shelving locations of print editions, see IUCAT.

World Population Policies 2009

Results of Population & Housing Census of Bhutan 2005; shelved in ALF; see IUCAT to request.

Population & Housing Census of Bhutan 2005

Crime

Crime Statistics [1970- ; from UNODC]

Culture/Cultural Policy

Unesco Institute for Statistics Data Centre

Development plans

For Action Programme for the Development of Bhutan, 2001-2010, UNLDC III, Brussels, 14-20 May 2001, A/CONF.191/CP/16, search the document number/symbol at Official Document System of the United Nations.

MDG Monitor documents individual countries' efforts to meet the UN's 8 Millennium Development Goals.

Economy/Commerce

Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific

Asian Development Outlook

Bhutan [from ADB]

Bhutan and the IMF

Reports and profiles from the Economist Intelligence Unit

Traders' Manual for Least Developed Countries: Bhutan

Royal Monetary Authority of Bhutan

Education/Literacy

Ethnologue (summary information on languages)

IBE Databases [from International Bureau of Education] include World Data on Education and Country Dossiers.

International Conference on Education: National Reports [1932- ]

Literacy Facts and Figures in Asia and the Pacific

Environment/Sustainable development

Nations of the Earth Report, v.2 (summary data) (shelved ALF); to request see IUCAT.

Earth Summit, GE170.U556 1993 (full report; high-use CD-ROM)

The National Information pages of the UN Division for Sustainable Development include reports to the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and other environmental information.

Rio+20 [United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development]

State of the Environment in Asia and the Pacific

Government information/Official publications/Statistics

Nations of the World, from the Law Library of Congress, includes links to legal and governmental resources.

National Portal of Bhutan

National Statistics Bureau

Statistical Yearbook

Statistical Yearbook of Bhutan; for holdings and shelving locations, see IUCAT.

For a guide to the Library's print/microform holdings of national statistical yearbooks, see South and Central Asian Statistical Yearbooks at Indiana University Bloomington Libraries.

Human rights/Social conditions

Human Development Report, HD75.H85 (latest at ET2 reference desk); for holdings and locations of other print editions, see IUCAT.

Human Development Reports, 1990-

Country Reports on Human Rights Practices; for holdings and locations of print editions, see IUCAT.

Country Reports on Human Rights Practices [1999-]

Social Indicators [from United Nations Statistics Division]

Global Health Observatory [from WHO]

Politics/Government

FIRST [Facts on International Relations and Security Trends] provides information on such topics as conflicts and military expenditures.

For a comprehensive listing of online country information resources, see Foreign Information by Country from the University of Colorado Boulder.