Statistical Data on East Asia

Online Data Sources

StatCat: includes information about numeric datasets in the Yale Social Science Data Archive, as well as datasets available in the Yale University Library and on the Internet. It may include statistical information on East Asia.

United Nations agencies publish country-level statistics. For example, UNESCO Institute for Statistics

China: National Statistical Bureau

Japan:Statistical Bureau of Japan

Data Sources in Print

How to find statistical data in print through Orbis?
1) Subject search: statistical sources very likely have "statistics" as part of their subject headings in Orbis. 2) Title search: Chinese-language statistical sources often have "tong ji" in their titles; the Japanese ones may have "tokei" or "tokeishu" in their titles. Many contemporary Chinese and Japanese statistical sources have English editions or translations.