HIST 2950 Sophomore Seminar in European History: Living in Modern Europe: Datasets

The European Commission's "official portal for European Data."

Official EU repository for high-quality statistics on Europe. See especially: Statistical Themes > Population and Social Conditions

Datasets here are not only economic. See for example the section on Gender.

This link goes to a search result for datasets containing the word "European" in the title. Note that ICPSR contains older datasets than some other sites, and data about earlier periods.

Comprehensive linked list of the statistical divisions/publications of Intragovernmental Organizations (IGO's), maintained by Northwestern University.

The databases, tables and glossaries containing over 60 million data points cover a broad range of themes including Agriculture, Crime, Education, Employment, Energy, Environment, Health, HIV/AIDS, Human Development, Industry, Information and Communication Technology, National Accounts, Population, Refugees, Tourism, Trade, as well as the Millennium Development Goals indicators.

Population census datasets back to 1995. See also the Monthly Bulletin of Statistics Online.

See especially the data coverage matrix for a sense of how much data is available on each country, by broad topic. Also contains rankings.

The advanced search of this dataset collection allows you to specify geographic coverage, among many other things. The overall Dataverse website contains good information on finding and using data.