Population and Demography
See also the resources on my companion page for the ISA Compendium's "Review of Available Data Sets" article, which may have been updated more recently than some of the resources on this page.
My Demographic Topics and Foreign Governments and Politics pages may also provide relevant information or data.
World Population Prospects, Data on Women and Men, and Gender Statistics (from the UN data browser; see also the UN Population Division's data page)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: (list forthcoming)
- Variables Included: (list forthcoming)
UNSD Demographic Statistics (from the UN data browser)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: (list forthcoming)
- Variables Included: (list forthcoming)
International Population Data (from the UN Statistics Division)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: (list forthcoming)
- Variables Included: (list forthcoming)
International Childbearing Data (from the UN Statistics Division)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: (list forthcoming)
- Variables Included: (list forthcoming)
International Child and Elderly Population Data (from the UN Statistics Division)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: (list forthcoming)
- Variables Included: (list forthcoming)
U.S. Census Bureau's International Data Base (world population estimates, growth rates, and fertility indicators; available both for the entire world and for individual countries and regions)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: (list forthcoming)
- Variables Included: (list forthcoming)
World Fertility Survey (from Princeton's Office of Population Research)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: 41 countries, 1970s-80s
- Variables Included: (list forthcoming)
OECD Tables of Populations and Deaths (from Princeton's Office of Population Research)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: varies (some countries have data from the 1920s through 1970s)
- Variables Included: (list forthcoming)
European Fertility Project data (from Princeton's Office of Population Research; tis includes several data sets, most prominently a compilation of vital statistics data from 1229 European provinces and smaller units at various points from the late 18th century to the mid-20th century)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: (varies)
- Variables Included: (list forthcoming)
Socioeconomic Development
My Demographic Topics page may also provide relevant information or data. See also the International Economic Data page for coverage of social topics, particularly in the development data section.
Millennium Development Goals (from the World Bank web site; see also the UN Millennium Indicators data browser)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain:
- Variables Included:
Banks' Cross-National Time Series Data Archive (not freely available -- their licenses run from $500-5000 -- but some university libraries and other institutions subscribem so you may be able to access the data without paying these fees.)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: entire world since 1815 (entire range not available for every country or every variable)
- Variables Included: dozens of variables grouped into the following categories: population and urbanization, Imports/exports/trade, energy production, government revenue and expenditure, defense expenditure and manpower, agriculture and industry, railroads, automobiles, commercial vehicles, telephones/telegrams/telegraphs, mail, radios/TVs/newspapers/books, school enrollments, literacy, physicians, national currency, exchange rates, domestic instability, regime characteristics, voting, legislatures and parties, electric power/steel/cement production
Human Development Report data (from the UNDP; see also the HDR data available through the UN data browser)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain:
- Variables Included:
The State of the World's Children-2008 (from UNICEF; see also a page with country reports and customizable data tables, as well as State of the World's Children data from the UN data browser)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: (list forthcoming)
- Variables Included: (list forthcoming)
Education and Literacy
UNESCO Data (from the UN data browser; see also the UNESCO data center)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: (list forthcoming)
- Variables Included: (list forthcoming)
International Education Data (from the UN Statistics Division)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: (list forthcoming)
- Variables Included: (list forthcoming)
International Literacy Data (from the UN Statistics Division)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: (list forthcoming)
- Variables Included: (list forthcoming)
Employment
International Labour Organization data (from the UN data browser; see also the ILO Statistics and Databases page)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: (list forthcoming)
- Variables Included: (list forthcoming)
International Income and Economic Activity Data (from the UN Statistics Division)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: (list forthcoming)
- Variables Included: (list forthcoming)
International Unemployment Data (from the UN Statistics Division)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: (list forthcoming)
- Variables Included: (list forthcoming)
Health
World Health Organization data (from the UN data browser; see also the WHO Statistical Information System/WHOSIS data page)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: (list forthcoming)
- Variables Included: (list forthcoming)
UN FAO data (from the UN data browser; includes food production/consumption and undernourishment among many other things
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: (list forthcoming)
- Variables Included: (list forthcoming)
International Health Data (from the UN Statistics Division)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: (list forthcoming)
- Variables Included: (list forthcoming)
International Water Supply and Sanitation Data (from the UN Statistics Division)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: (list forthcoming)
- Variables Included: (list forthcoming)
Harvard's Center for International Development geography data (including a variety of data sets on infectious diseases)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain:
- Variables Included:
Housing and Urbanization
International Housing Data (from the UN Statistics Division)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: (list forthcoming)
- Variables Included: (list forthcoming)
International Urban/Rural Population Data (from the UN Statistics Division)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: (list forthcoming)
- Variables Included: (list forthcoming)
Ethnic, Linguistic, and Religious Minorities
My Demographic Topics and Foreign Governments and Politics pages may also provide relevant information or data.
Minorities at Risk Project (A research project that "monitors and analyzes the status and conflicts of politically-active communal groups in all countries with a current population of at least 500,000." Besides the downloadable quantitative data, they also provide a searchable interface that can bring up information on each group that is included in the data set. The main MAR data has recently been augmented by the addition of the Minorities at Risk Organizational Behavior (MAROB) data set.)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: (list forthcoming)
- Variables Included: (list forthcoming)
Ethnologue Linguistic Data (from the Summer Institute of Linguistics in Dallas; a compilation of data on 6703 languages currently spoken around the world, organized both by language and by country)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: Entire world
- Variables Included: (list forthcoming)
The annual CIA World Factbook provides estimates of each country's ethnic groups, languages, and religions (this is only a snapshot as of the publication of the most recent annual volume, but earlier volumes can provide a useful basis for comparison)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain:
- Variables Included:
Country Language Data (from economist Jon Haveman at Purdue)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: 178 countries (time frame unclear)
- Variables Included: country code, country name, primary language
Refugees
UNHCR Statistical Online Population Database (from UNHCR; see also the UNHCR Statistical Yearbook)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: (list forthcoming)
- Variables Included: (list forthcoming)
UNRWA Palestinian Refugee Data (from the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: (list forthcoming)
- Variables Included: (list forthcoming)
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