Income Inequality Data & Resources: Start

over 1000 economics datasets covering retail, housing, trade, commodities, banking, energy, industry and other indicators

data that supports economic and social science research; many varieties. CMU subscription - create an account first (in upper left corner)

international and US population data - census, health, time use, harmonized data - historical through current.

repository for multidisciplinary research data that is free and open to all researchers, including numerous datasets in business and economics

Most extensive available data series on the world distribution of income and wealth. Sourced by a team of economists including T. Piketty.

527,000 economic data time series from 87 national, international, public, and private sources, along with tools for interaction, display, and dissemination.

prices, employment, pay, productivity, etc.

US production, consumption, investment, exports/imports, income and saving, industry input-output accounts, foreign direct investment and balance of payments, etc.

measures of establishment openings and closings, firm startups, job creation and destruction by firm size, age, and industrial sector, and several other statistics on business dynamics, from 1978-2018.

triennial cross-sectional survey of U.S. families, with information on families’ balance sheets, pensions, income, and demographic characteristics. Sponsored by the Federal Reserve Board and the US Treasury.

labor data for 200 countries, from 1969 to the present

SIPP is the premier source of information for income and program participation. SIPP collects data and measures change for many topics including: economic well-being, family dynamics, education, assets, health insurance, childcare, and food security.

This database contains occupational wage data for 164 occupations in 192 countries from 1953 to 2008.

Manufacturing, retail, services, construction, and other industries - historical financial and other indicators - some monthly.

purchasing power parity and national income accounts converted to international prices for 189 countries/territories 1950-2019.

measures of world economic growth, from 1 A.D to 2018, by country. Updated every few years.

from the Conference Board - annual data on GDP, population, employment, hours, labor quality, capital services, labor productivity, and total factor productivity for 123 countries. Requires free account.

international banking, derivatives, securities, exchange rates, debt, etc.

from the United Nations - 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.

many historical datasets of all kinds used by the NBER, such as "the 1947-2005 quarterly job flow series for US Manufacturing."

(of Fama/French fame) the data made available here give historical returns for various industry, country, and index portfolios

their versions of our Census Bureau

which often have a statistical section for economic and financial data