Political Science Guide

Polity - The most widely used measure of democracy in political science research

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

Varieties of Democracy - A common tool for measuring democracy (users can also use it to create their own custom measures for countries)

World in Data: Democracy - Show empirical evidence about the change in democracy over the years

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

Economic Growth - Offers an overview of economic growth of major countries through the years and concrete data to help back those claims up

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

Observatory of Economic Complexity (OEC) - This website tracks the exports and imports of countries around the word and presents this data in some fairly easily digestible profiles