remember when i suggested that the cia world factbook is kinda crappy? to update you stats-hungry researchers, a new “super world fact book” has arrived with a wicked hokey name - it’s NationMaster (as in, “vee ah zee nayshun-maztuh, kum viss us if yoo vont to leeve”). from their site: “..a massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations. NationMaster is a vast compilation of data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, United Nations, World Health Organization, World Bank, World Resources Institute, UNESCO, UNICEF and OECD…you can generate maps and graphs on all kinds of statistics with ease…currently have 4,050 stats…the web’s one-stop resource for country statistics on anything and everything, whether it be soldiers , olympic medals, tourists, English speakers or wall plug voltages. You can also view profiles of individual countries including their maps and flags….use correlation reports and scatterplots to find relationships between variables…a full encyclopedia with over 200,000 articles.”

one thing that this site can NOT touch is the quality of data and statistics on world religion at adherents. i have never seen a site quite as well embraced by the global religious research community with as much depth and organization in this category (i’d say niche, but it ain’t a niche).

nationmaster kind of puts the cia world factbook to shame, huh?. oh, and remember when we were kids and those guys used to sell encyclopedias door-to-door? that job must suck now.

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