Country background

Aruba
(Autonomous member state of the Netherlands)

• Netherlands: Country Guide
• Government of Aruba (in Dutch only)

• Central Bank of Aruba
• Central Bureau of Statistics
• Dutch Royal House
• Governor of Aruba
• History of Aruba
• Ministries Directory (in Dutch only)
• Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations - Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles
  • New Status for the Netherlands Antilles
• Parliment of Aruba (in Dutch only)

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Country Profiles

• BBC News Profile - Aruba
  A guide to history, politics and economic background of countries from BBC News.
• CIA World Factbook - Aruba
  Country profile provides information on country background, geography, people, government, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues.
• IMF - Aruba
  Country information, reports and publications from the International Monetary Fund.
• ITC - Aruba
  Country-specific trade and market profiles, map, and trade statistics from the International Trade Centre (ITC).
• Library of Congress - Aruba
  Country portal and resources compiled by the Library of Congress subject experts.
• UNESCO Communication & Information - Aruba
  Country profile, news and links to related projects and websites.
• UNESCO Institute for Statistics - Aruba
  A selection of national statistics on education, literacy, science and technology, culture, and communication.
• UNESCO Office Havana
  Cluster Office representing UNESCO in Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti and Aruba.
• UNFPA Caribbean
  The UNFPA office in Jamaica serves the English and Dutch Speaking Caribbean inclusive of 21 member countries: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and The Turks and Caicos Islands.
• United Nations Country @ a Glance - Aruba
  Country overview, news, economy, environment, health and technology from the United Nations Cyberschoolbus.
• United Nations Statistics Division: Environment Snapshot - Aruba
  Country snapshots offer national environment statistics.
• United Nations Statistics Division: National Accounts - Aruba
  "Statistics database contains a complete and consistent set of time series from 1970 onwards of main national accounts aggregates for all UN Members States and all other countries and areas in the world."
• U.S. Census Bureau Foreign Trade Statistics - Aruba
  U.S. trade in goods (imports, exports and balance) with Aruba.
• U.S. Department of Energy - Caribbean (includes Aruba)
  Regional analysis report from the Energy Information Administration for the Caribbean.

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Articles and Databases

• Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Declassified Documents
  Declassified information available from the FOIA Electronic Reading Room.
  • National Intelligence Council (NIC) Declassified Documents
    Database of intelligence reports, National Intelligence Estimates, and other publications produced by the National Intelligence Council or its predecessor organizations, the Office of National Estimates and the Office of Reports and Estimates since 1946.
• Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)
  Department of Defense Scientific and Technical Reports Collection provides access to citations to unclassified unlimited documents that have been entered into DTIC's Technical Reports (TR) Database, as well as the electronic full-text of many of these documents. The site also includes databases that focus on individual topics.
• Global Legal Information Network (GLIN)
  "Public database of official texts of laws, regulations, judicial decisions, and other complementary legal sources contributed by governmental agencies and international organizations."
• International Area Studies General CU
  Collection of general databases from the University of Colorado covering international issues.
• International Area Studies Latin America CU
  Collection of databases from the University of Colorado covering Latin America.
• International Area Studies Statistics CU
  Collection of international statistics databases from the University of Colorado.
• PAHO/WHO Databases
  Regional Core Health Data Initiative Table Generator System from the Pan American Health Organization, a regional office of the World Health Organization. Provides national health statistics and other data on the health situation in the Caribbean and North, Central, and South American countries.
• UNdata
  UNdata provides a single entry point allowing users to search and download numerous statistical resources of the United Nations System.
• WDI Online CU
  World Development Indicators (WDI) online contains statistical data on the global economy from the World Bank.

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Diplomatic Relations
Diplomacy, Programs and Aid

• EU Relations with Aruba
  Overview, country strategy, agreements, and documents on the European Union's relations with Aruba.
• ReliefWeb - Aruba
  ReliefWeb, administered by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), provides news, documents, maps, and background information on emergency assistance by country.
• UNHCR - Aruba
  News, operations, statistics, background, analysis and policy, and maps from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Trinidad and Tobago
  UNDP helps countries work toward human rights, democratic governance, poverty reduction, crisis prevention and recovery, energy and environment for sustainable development, and HIV/AIDS prevention. The Trinidad and Tobago country office also covers Suriname, Netherlands Antilles and Aruba.
• U.S. Department of State Background Notes - Aruba
  Country background notes.

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Health

• PAHO/WHO
  Official site of the Pan American Health Organization, a regional office of the World Health Organization.   
  • Country Health Profile - Aruba
    Information, health situation analysis, and statistics about countries in the Americas.

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Peacekeeping and Military Information

• Defense is the responsibility of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
  • see Ministry of Defence: The Netherlands

• The Library Catalog, Chinook
  There are numerous secondary, federal, and international sources of information on Aruba available in the collection.
  
  Try these searches to see some of the resources in Chinook, the library catalog:

  Electronic Resources	Print and Electronic Resources
  aruba and econom*	aruba and econom*
  aruba and histor*	aruba and histor*
  aruba and politic*	aruba and politic*
  aruba (government publications only)	aruba (government publications only)

  
  The * replaces up to five characters in a word.

• Foreign Relations and International Aid
• Netherlands: Country Guide
• Netherlands Antilles: Country Guide