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International Historical Statistics: Africa, Asia, and Oceania 1750-1993 Main Library Reference HA4675.M55 1998 (NA Internet)

European Historical Statistics: 1750-1993 Main Library Reference HA1107.M5 1998 (NA Internet)

Handbook of International Economic Statistics Main Library Reference HC59.U55 (Most recent year also available at Handbook of International Economic Statistics )
Dollar estimates are based on PPP (Purchasing Power Parity). Covers selected countries which appear to include most countries of the world. Countries are grouped into OECD, selected East European, and Other. 
Begins with section of maps of world . Gives GDP per capita, European countries in, and who have applied to the European Union, and section on China. Pie chart of world GDP and population, selected world statistics of raw materials and productivity. Economic profile of OECD, European Union, and other organizations covers standard economic data, automobile registrations, educational expense, telephones, consumer price growth, literacy, life expectancy, infant mortality. Charts show defense spending as share of GDP, growth in capital stock, health expenditures, net national savings, share of government research funds to non-defense research, labor and manufacturing statistics, real GDP per capita, agriculture and oil prices, inflation, debt, foreign direct investment, average rate of growth, productivity, unemployment, personal savings per capita, consumption of certain foods, production of commodities, exports. Also many charts of environment, emissions, pollution control expenditures. Also map with Soviet designated nuclear plants in Europe and radiation hot spots. Also covers environmental problem areas in Russia and Far East, waste disposal, deforestation, forests. Gives participation in major international agreements.

One Hundred Years of Economic Statistics Main Library Reference HC106.L683 1989 (NA Internet)
Covers U.S., UK, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden 1885-1987. Some statistics available only for shorter periods. Covers GDP, industrial production, gross domestic product, balance of payments, share prices, interest rates, capital formation, rates of growth, productivity, distribution of employment, growth in consumer prices, growth in earnings, and age distribution. Represents a new edition of Economic Statistics 1900- 1983 revised and expanded to 1987. Provides retrospective coverage of economic statistics for the U.K., U.S., Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Sweden. Covers GDP, industrial production, employment, production, age distribution, consumer prices, growth of earnings in manufacturing, income tax, commodity composition, exports and external trade.

Main Economic Indicators: Historical Statistics Main Library Reference HC240.A1O728 (NA Internet)
Covers the years 1964 through 1983. Statistical tables 1964-83 for 25 countries, Canada, U.S., Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Great Britain, United Kingdom, Yugoslavia. Tables cover national and domestic product (GNP and GDP), production, rate of capacity, business surveys, manufacturing, construction, internal trade, labor and wages, prices, home finance, interest rates, share prices, foreign trade, foreign finance, and balance of payments.
See also Industrial Production 1955-1964 Main Library Reference HC240.A10727 1964.
Another publication covering OECD countries is Statistics of National Product and Expenditures 1938, and 1947-1955, Main Library Reference HC240.A1O77 1955 which includes statistics and also citations to original sources of statistics for those years.

Dictionary of Statistics (Mulhall) Main Library Reference HA46.M95 1892 (NA Internet)
Actually a compilation of statistics rather than a dictionary. Valuable for its coverage of dates in the Nineteenth Century. Published in Great Britain and covers statistics for European countries, U.S. and sometimes countries in other parts of the world. Statistics are arranged alphabetically by specific subject - accidents, age, crime, debt, drunkenness, eggs, fires, insane, etc. Also has broad as well as specific subjects. Statistics are retrospective and go back to the early 1800s and even the 1700s. For example, has German educational statistics for 1876. Has very detailed subject index with entries such as Scarlatina, Rothschild loans, robbery, serfs, etc. Unique for this period. Supplemented by New Dictionary of Statistics. (HA46.M954) which follows the same plan beginning after 1892.

Thirteenth Annual Report of the Commissioner of Labor, 1900. Main Library Reference HD8051.A1 
This valuable annual report, in two volumes, is a "compilation of wages in commercial countries from official sources." General tables give wage rates for 4,500 occupations from blacksmiths to weavers and glass wrappers in U.S. states and in foreign countries. Includes data from 100 foreign countries all over the world from Algeria to Venezuela. Gives lowest, highest, and average wage rates. Also includes list of U.S. and foreign sources from which data were compiled.

OECD Economic Outlook: Historical Statistics 1960-1980 Main Library Reference HA155.O43 (NA Internet)
Covers national accounts, population, labor, GDP, expenditures, industry, government outlays, saving, profit shares, prices, wages, internal finance, foreign trade, reserves, and cyclical behavior of OECD economies.