United Nations stats (lots of goodies) http://unstats.un.org http://unstats.un.org some free, some paid http://infochimps.com/ http://infochimps.com/ AIS Da

United Nations stats (lots of goodies) http://unstats.un.org http://unstats.un.org some free, some paid http://infochimps.com/ http://infochimps.com/ AIS Data (Marine Traffic) http://www.aishub.net/ http://www.aishub.net/ http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/ http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/ And there's a great list of sources on Quora http://www.quora.com/Where-can-I-get-large-datasets-open-to-the-public http://www.quora.com/Where-can-I-get-large-datasets-open-to-...