Basic Statistics

• Economic Indicators / United States Department of Commerce
• Economy at a Glance / Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States Department of Labor
• World Factbook - Economic Statistics by Country / United States Central Intelligence Agency

Databases

• County Business Patterns 1998- (NAICS) / United States Bureau of the Census
  County Business Patterns (CBP) is an annual series that provides subnational economic data by industry. CBP is useful for studying the economic activity of small areas; analyzing economic changes over time; and as a benchmark for statistical series, surveys, and databases between economic censuses. Data are provided by industry in the following economic divisions: agricultural services, forestry, and fishing; mining; construction; manufacturing; transportation and public utilities; wholesale trade; retail trade; finance, insurance, and real estate; and services.
• Economic Census 1997 / U. S. Bureau of the Census
  The Bureau of the Census provides information from the Economic Census 1997 in many ways. Some can be found on the Bureau's main site and some can be found on American FactFinder. For help navigating between the two, see the guide linked from the "i" above.
• Eurostat
  The Eurostat website contains a mix of statistical information in PDF pages, pre-defined tables and interactive databases. The coverage varies by topic, but some data goes back at least to 1929. All content is freely available. There is a guide to Eurostat at http://www.lib.umn.edu/libdata/page.phtml?page_id=1686.
  
• Gross Domestic Product by State & Gross Product Originating / U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
  Provides data on gross product for the United States and states, including manufacturing shipments, business taxes, compensation of employees, and income.
• International Financial Statistics
  International Financial Statistics (IFS) is the electronic version of the International Monetary Fund's standard source of statistics on all aspects of international and domestic finance from more than 200 IMF countries. It contains approximately 32,000 time series of financial and economic data. Topics covered include exchange rates, IMF postion, international liquidity, money and banking accounts, interest rates, prices, production, international transactions, government accounts, national accounts, and population. The database contains annual, monthly, and quarterly data going back as far as 1945. Data output formats include CSV, Excel. HTML, and TAB delimited.
• REIS Regional Economic Information System, 1969- / United States Bureau of Economic Analysis
  The web site offers interactive access to the tables CA1-3: personal income summary estimates, Detailed county annual tables (including employment and regional economic profiles) and CA34: wage and salary summary estimates.

Online Publications

• Beige Book: Current Economic Conditions / The United States Federal Reserve Board of the United States
• Budget of the United States / United States Office of Management & Budget
• Economic Report of the President / United States Council of Economic Advisors
• Handbook of International EconomicStatistics / United States Central Intelligence Agency
• Statistical Abstract - Labor Force, Employment, & Earnings Section / United States Bureau of the Census
• Statistical Abstract - Income, Expenditures, Poverty, & Wealth Section / United States Bureau of the Census
• Statistical Abstract - Prices Section / United States Bureau of the Census
• Statistical Abstract - Banking, Finance, & Insurance Section / United States Bureau of the Census
• Statistical Abstract - Business Enterprise Section / United States Bureau of the Census
• Statistical Abstract - Agriculture Section / United States Bureau of the Census
• Statistical Abstract - Construction & Housing Section / United States Bureau of the Census
• Statistical Abstract - Manufactures Section / United States Bureau of the Census
• Statistical Abstract - Foreign Commerce & Aid Section / United States Bureau of the Census