Where to Start
COUNTRY INFORMATION
World Factbook - The website provides a basic overview of the countries
Country Analyses - Analyzes a country's political, economic, social, and technological structure as well as its history
World Bank Data - Datasets that cover political science issues
Human Development Index - Provided by the UN, it covers the advancement in humanity
DEMOCRATIZATION
The Global State of Democracy - Allows you to look at where countries are based on democracy indices, compare those numbers to other countries, and see how those numbers have changed over time
World in Data: Democracy - Show empirical evidence about the change in democracy over the years
CONFLICT
Civil Wars - Has charts about various Civil War and offers some insight as to why these wars happen
Civil Wars since 1945 - This Wikipedia article provides good background knowledge to help you see what wars were going on
DEVELOPMENT
Imports and Exports - From the US government, this offers a list of a country's major imports and exports and how the effects their economies
Economic Growth - Offers an overview of economic growth of major countries through the years and concrete data to help back those claims up
