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International Financial Statistics. Washington, D.C.: International Monetary Fund. (monthly and annual). Bobst Ref6 Desk current and Int'l Docs,. HG3881.I626, 1948-, and IIS fiche 3830-S2, 1983-. The standard source of international statistics on all aspects of international and domestic finance. It reports, for most countries of the world, current data needed in the analysis of problems of international payments and of inflation and deflation, i.e., data on exchange rates, international liquidity, international banking, money and banking, interest rates, prices, production, international transactions, government accounts, and national accounts. The IFS database contains time series data from 1948.

National Accounts. OECD. (Annual and Quarterly). Bobst Ref6 Int'l Docs., Aisle 40, 1976-, see also SourceOECD.
National accounts including GDP by type of economic activity, and consumption expenditures by type and purpose. Main aggregates and comparative tables for 25 countries.

National Accounts Statistics. New York: United Nations. (annual). Bobst Ref6 Int'l Docs., Aisle 20 The most comprehensive source for national accounts statistics; detailed statistics for 168 countries include GDP, private final consumption by type, capital transactions of the nation, general government income and much more. Although, it is very detailed, it is very late to come out, usually several years behind.