Global Caribbean: History and Society: Reference Sources

• Gender Equality Data and Statistics (World Bank)

  Provides access to information about gender equality in countries all over the world.

• Global Health Observatory (GHO)

  Database of health indicators for World Health Organization (WHO) member countries.

• International Financial Statistics  This link opens in a new window

  Datasets and other publications produced by the IMF, covering market and other economic information from 200+ countries. 

• International Programs Data (from the U.S. Census Bureau)

  Demographic, economic, and geographic information of other countries. From the U.S. Census Bureau.

• Statistical Yearbook for Latin America and the Caribbean

  Provides access to social and economic data about Latin America and the Caribbean.

• United Nations Statistics Division, Demographic and Social Statistics

  The United Nations Statistics Division provides access to global statistical information from countries around the world.

• World Bank Open Data

  Data about development in countries around the world.

Political Database of the Americas

Georgetown University Center for Latin American Studies

Latin American Government Documents Project

Organized by categories including Statistical Sources, Executive and Ministerial Documents, National Legislative Documents, and National Judicial Documents

Digital National Security Archive

This resource consists of expertly curated, and meticulously indexed, declassified government documents covering U.S. policy toward critical world events – including their military, intelligence, diplomatic and human rights dimensions – from 1945 to the present.

Department of State, Office of the Historian Foreign Relations Reports

• Eisenhower Administration
  • Foreign Relations of the United States, 1958–1960, Cuba Volume VI
• Kennedy Administration
  • Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961–1963, Volume X, Cuba, January 1961–September 1962
  • Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961–1963, Volume XI, Cuban Missile Crisis and Aftermath
• Johnson Administration
  • Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964–1968, Volume XXXII, Dominican Republic; Cuba; Haiti; Guyana

• LANIC History from the University of Texas

  The three sites below offer primary historical documents from the Internet Modern History Sourcebook.

• Colonial Latin America

• 19th Century Latin America

• 20th Century Latin America

CIA World Fact Book

Country information, including maps and population pyramids.