An important facet of fact-checking is knowing where to find accurate information. The sites below are generally trustworthy on a wide range of topics.
View, print, and download statistics about population, housing, industry, and business. You can also find U.S. Census Bureau products, create reference and thematic maps, and search for specific data.
Available through the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.
A huge database covering all sorts of indicators for EU Member States and candidate countries. Most of the data sets are submitted to Eurostat from national statistical authorities.
The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that was founded to build an internet library. It includes texts, audio, moving images and software as well as archived web pages (The Wayback Machine), the TV Political Internet Archive, and more.
NHIS data on a broad range of health topics, collected through personal household interviews. Survey results have been instrumental in providing data to track health status, health care access and progress toward achieving national health objectives.
The World Bank's statistics on key economic and social indicators for most countries in the world, presented with plenty of metadata and options for visualization.
Designed to "help you become “web literate” by showing you the unique opportunities and pitfalls of searching for truth on the web. Crazy, right? This is the instruction manual to reading on the modern internet."
