Finding Social Science Data for Research

World Bank databases include data on living standards around the world.

• A very large number of macro-economic statistics (like Gross National Income etc) are available for a long list of world countries. 
• Date coverage varies.
• Recommend using the “World Development Indicators” data set accessed through the “DataBank” tool.

This OECD site provides a portal to free socio-economic statistics collected by the OECD.

See:

OCED Data

OCED Stat

UT Libraries also subscribes to OECD iLibrary, OECD's premier fee-based product.