The International Year Book and Statesmen’s Who’s Who is an invaluable reference source for anyone interested in international affairs or international business. For almost 70 years it has been an authoritative and reliable source on countries, organisations, and people, used by governments, MPs, embassies, and IGOs. Its detailed content includes up-to-date and reliable statistics on a wide range of topics. The International Year Book and Statesmen’s Who’s Who is the only directory that includes profiles of international organisations, states of the world, and an extensive number of biographies in one print volume.

States of the World: this section provides the latest statistics, tables, and other information on over 380 countries, provinces, state dependencies and territories. The concise but comprehensive state profiles include political, demographic, and economic information. The overviews also include information on employment, education, legal systems, industry, communications, infrastructure, health, religion, communications, and the environment. Also included are cabinet members and elections. Individual entries for each of the US states, Canadian provinces, Indian states, Australian states and territories, South African provinces, and German federal states are also published. Its directory content includes contact details for government ministries, political parties, embassies, courts, central banks, and organisations relating to business, transport, industry, religious bodies, and the media, and offers over 12,000 useful internet addresses. Full colour national and state flags are also included.
The comprehensive collection of data allows researchers to access detailed information on all states of the world from a variety of reliable sources - saving hours of research.

International Organisations: covers the main international and national organizations world-wide. It features detailed entries on the UN, its specialised and affiliated agencies, the EU, and major inter-governmental organisations. The International Year Book and Statesmen's Who's Who also includes overviews of a further 500 international and national organisations, from political and humanitarian groups, through environment and agriculture to international trade, commerce, human rights, and law. The preliminary section also includes an easy-to-use guide to country membership of major international organisations.

Biographies: includes over 1,900 profiles of key players today including heads of state, politicians, diplomats, judges, and bankers.