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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank are the main sources of financial data at the country level.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) sells access to an online database of International Financial Statistics.  The base price is $US495 for individual users, but residents of developing countries, academic institutions, etc. may purchase at discounted prices.  Information is available at http://ifs.apdi.net/imf/prepurchase.asp . The IMF also has a number of reports with statistical annexes available online. These are mainly in pdf format. The main IMF address is http://www.imf.org/external/ .

 The World Bank sells the Global Development Finance online database. The database provides data on 219 indicators for 138 countries. The base price is $US400. Information on the database including a list of the countries is available at http://publications.worldbank.org/ecommerce/catalog/product?item_id=1023868 . A  test of the interface is available at http://publications.worldbank.org/subscriptions/GDF-trial/ . The Bank also provides for the download of the GDF report and the summary statistical tables in pdf format. Links to the downloadable pdf material are at http://www.worldbank.org/prospects/gdf2003/ . The World Bank provides financial data in time series on its subscription data base  World Development Indicators data base. You can get the data for the latest year for a single country from links on http://www.worldbank.org/data/databytopic/databytopic.html .

United Nations -- Data on the financial indicators related to the Millennium Development Goals is available at http://unstats.un.org/unsd/mi/mi_goals.asp .