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General Databases

Data by Country From DIVA-GIS
UNEP Data Downloader From the UN Environment Programme
FAOSTAT Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations
World Resource Institute. WRI produces and curates data sets as part of our commitment to turn information into action
The World Bank. Open Data Sources.
N atural Earth data dataset available at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110 million scales
CIESIN data
FAO Global Land Cover Network
ESRI ArcGIS Data and Maps
World Bank Official Boundaries Catalog

GeoCommons Various GIS layers and geospatial data uploaded by anyone. Hit-or-miss, but you might find anything.
Geographically based Economic data (G-Econ)
Protected planet
Plas.io Information about how to use this site. http://www.neonscience.org/plasio-view-pointclouds
United Nations Database
The World Bank Data Bank
World BioClim