Country Watch
CountryWatch, Inc. is a leading provider of current and historical country-specific information on the 194 recognized countries of the world.
CountryWatch Premium offers comprehensive information, data and news for each of the recognized 194 countries of the world offering these specific features:
- Country Reviews™, which offer political, cultural, economic, social, demographic, business-oriented, and environmental information and data;
- Country Wire™, which features daily news wire stories covering the country's current events as well as a 13 month searchable archive of stories for historical research;
- CountryWatch Data featuring quantifiable data points on subjects like economics, health, disease, religion, etc., whereby you may make cross-country comparisons, download the data in .csv tables, and map/graph the data for visual use;
- CountryWatch Map Gallery, which offers thematic, political, and geographic graphs and maps to offer a visual research option for students and faculty;
- Political Intelligence Briefing, which provides a weekly update of the world's hot spots and political changes;
Additional features includes an image and map gallery, a currency converter, bibliographic information, and links to various areas of interest for each of the 194 countries
CountryWatch Youth Edition is a research option customized for the younger K-12 students, featuring topics similar to the Premium Edition, but with the following:
- Cultural information such as recipes, social etiquette, holidays and festivals;
- Curriculum Corner and Country Scope, which are wonderful tools for teachers and students alike to facilitate engaged discussion and thoughtful learning about other countries;
- Global images of flags, country pictures, maps, for visual learning
CountryWatch Forecast provides a 20-year projection for key variables in the areas of Macroeconomics, Energy, Metals and Agriculture for each of the 194 countries of the world. The Forecast also provides 5 years of historical data on the following variables:
- Macroeconomic variables include GDP and its principal components: consumption, investment spending, government spending, exports and imports, inflation, interest rates, inflation rates, foreign exchange rates, fiscal policy including tax rates, and the primary components of the balance of payments as well as foreign exchange reserves.
- Energy data includes three major fossil fuel markets: petroleum, natural gas and coal along with production of electricity from nuclear, hydroelectric and renewable resources.
- Metals data for the major industrial metal markets: copper, aluminum, lead, tin, nickel, and zinc along with production of two of the major precious metals: gold and silver.
- Agriculture markets include: corn, soybeans rice, coffee, cocoa, sugar and wheat.
Not only is the CountryWatch Forecast a useful forecasting resource, it is also an excellent teaching tool.
