CLIO World Tables: A Global Historical Database

Abstract

We hereby announce the creation of a global historical database, the CLIO World Tables. CLIO is intended for use by anyone who seeks historical information about demographic, economic, political, and socio-cultural phenomena. It encompasses data from a large range of sources – published and unpublished, hard copy and digital (including extant datasets), archival and non-archival, English and foreign language – and serves as a user-friendly clearinghouse for historical information gathered on a global scale. In this report, we describe the rationale for CLIO, the process of data collection, and the product – as well as the possible future of CLIO.

Keywords: History, Political Science, Sociology, Economics, Database