I know that I have bad mouthed Stats and Statisticians a decent amount in the past, but it was really all out of love and now that I have found GeoHive I will never speak ill of statistics again. GeoHive is a repository of Global, Country, and Economic data that is freely browse-able. Watch out though, you may find yourself spending most of your day looking through the census data of the Balkan countries. In fact you might be interested in know that the world leaders in potato production in the year of 2008 were China with 57,059,652 metric tons, India with 34,462,500 metric tons, and Russia with 28,874,230 metric tons.