African Population Database Documentation - United Nations Environment Programme. / Global Resource Information Database (UNEP/GRID Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University NY.

This database is largely a compilation of existing data sources and provides a population estimate for more than 109,000 administrative units for 1960, 70, 80, 90 and 2000

http://grid2.cr.usgs.gov/globalpop/africa/Africa_index.html

AFRISTAT - The Economic and Statistical Observatory of Sub-Saharan Africa

This site presents economic and social statistics for the 18 members states (Data on demography, education, health, economy...)

http://www.afristat.org/?pg=10

Alcohol control database - World Health Organization (WHO)

This database provides information on alcohol policies in the Member States and links to the data on consumption and related harm in the European health for all database

http://data.euro.who.int/alcohol/

Annual core indicators online database - United Nations economic and social commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)

Asia-Pacific in Figures covers, for more than 60 countries of the Asia-Pacific region, many important socio-economic aspects of development: population, health, education, culture, national accounts, trade, labour force and production, natural resources and environment

http://www.unescap.org/stat/data/apif/index.asp

Annual National Accounts for OECD Member Countries - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Annual national accounts available from 1970 for the 30 OECD countries, euro area and 3 zones (OECD total, OECD Europe and EU15) GDP, disposable income, saving and net lending, population and employment in persons

http://www.oecd.org/topicstatsportal/0,3398,fr_2825_495684_1_1_1_1_1,00.html

BADEINSO - the Social Indicators and Statistics database - CEPALSTAT

Database for the 33 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. The retrospective series since 1950, from a variety of sources, are classified under the following themes: demography, education, health, living conditions, employment, income, poverty and income distribution, economy

http://websie.eclac.cl/sisgen/ConsultaIntegrada.asp

Banque de données sociales localisées (BDSL) - Ministère de l'Emploi, du Travail et de la Cohésion sociale, Ministère de la Santé et de la Protection sociale, Ministère de la Famille et de l'Enfance, Ministère de la Parité et de l'Egalité professionnelle, DRASS

This localized database provides statistics on more than fifty social indicators classified by French territorial and administrative division: commune (smallest administrative division), canton (several communes), employment areas, départements, regions and the entire country. Access is limited to social action organizations and their partners. The list of authorized uses is laid down under an agreement signed with the data providers.

http://bdsl.social.gouv.fr/

Base de données sur les causes de décès à définition médicale constante en France depuis 1925 - Institut national d’études démographiques (INED)

Database on detailed causes of death, sex and age groups since 1925. Statistical series corresponding to the 5200 headings of the 9th revision of the International classification of diseases (ICD) can be grouped together by users

http://www.ined.fr/bdd/causfra/

Base de données sur les causes médicales de décès - Inserm CéPidc ex SC8

This database provides death by age, sex, cause, place of residence since 1979

http://www.cepidc.vesinet.inserm.fr/

CANCERMondial - International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)

Access to information on the occurrence of cancer world-wide. Data available to download:1. Incidence data collected by cancer registries worldwide 2. Incidence and survival of children and adolescents in Europe 3. Mortality data extracted from the World Health Organization (WHO) databank. 4. The most recent estimates of the cancer incidence, mortality and prevalence, by sex and cancer site, for all the countries of the world (GLOBOCAN 2002)

http://www-dep.iarc.fr/

Causes of death. - World health organization ( WHO )

Estimated per 100,000 population by cause, and Member State, 2002

http://www.who.int/research/en/index.html

Census 2000 - Forms and related information - United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. UNECE

This page presents census forms, instructions, census laws and links to census websites

http://www.unece.org/stats/census/2000/Welcome.htm

Centralized information system for infectious diseases (CISID) - World Health Organization (WHO). Regional Office for Europe

Contains data gathered through surveillance of communicable diseases - such as tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infections, and malaria - and data on immunization coverage in countries and recent outbreaks in Europe. Some data at the subnational level are available

http://data.euro.who.int/cisid/?TabID=67

City Population - Thomas Brinkhoff

Population of countries, principal agglomerations, major cities, administrative areas and areas for countries and administrative areas of the world

http://www.citypopulation.de/

Comparative Tables on Social Protection - European commission

The database contains the regularly updated MISSOC tables, covering all areas of social protection. The database allows the user to easily select the country or countries of interest and select the specific information fields they want to view on the screen and/ or print-out. The database also enables downloading of the selected information into a standard Microsoft^TM Excel spreadsheet, which allows for more advanced comparisons, table designs and print-outs. This site presents the official data, definitions, methodologies and sources for the 48 indicators to measure progress towards the Millennium Development Goals. Progress reports, documents and links will keep you updated with the statistics and analysis on MDGs. For background information on the monitoring process, see About the Millennium Development Goals.

http://ec.europa.eu/employment_social/missoc/db/public/compareTables.do?lang=en

Core Health Indicators - World health Organization ( WHO )

This section includes 10 highlights of global health statistics for the past year as well as an expanded set of 50 health statistics for WHO's 193 Member States

http://www.who.int/whosis/database/core/core_select.cfm

Data Centre - Unesco. Institute for statisitcs

This section provides data from 1970 on national education systems, institutions, teaching staff and enrolment by level of education, enrolment by level, public expenditure on education

http://stats.uis.unesco.org/unesco/TableViewer/document.aspx?ReportId=143&IF_Language=eng

Data from the Basic Socio-Economic Indicators (BASEIND - Statistical Economic and Social Research and Training Centre for Islamic Countries (SESRTCIC)

Data from the Basic Socio-Economic Indicators (BASEIND), contains 172 indicators. It covers data from 1975 up to the present for all 57 members of the OIC. The data entered in the BASEIND is derived from national data sources and from international data sources

http://www.sesrtcic.org/baseind.php

Data Online for Population, Health & Nutrition (DOLPHN) - Population, Health and Nutrition Information Project (PHNI) , US Agency for International Development (UNSAID)

This database contains over 70 key health indicators from 11 selected and internationally data sources on current health conditions, population dynamics, health and family planning behavior, health and population trends in a given developing country

http://dolphn.aimglobalhealth.org/

Database on developed countries - Institut national d'études démographiques (INED)

This database presents the main demographic indicators of the countries of Europe and also for North America, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, often as far back as 1950.

http://www.ined.fr/en/pop_figures/developed_countries/developed_countries_database/

Database on immigrants and expatriates - Organisation for economic co-operation and development

This database  provides comprehensive and comparative information on a broad range of demographic and labour market characteristics of immigrants living in OECD countries. It includes information on demographic characteristics (age and gender), duration of stay, labour market outcomes (labour market status, occupations, sectors of activity), fields of study, educational attainment and the place of birth. The reference year of the data is the year 2000.

http://www.oecd.org/document/51/0,3343,en_2649_33931_40644339_1_1_1_1,00.html

Databases - Institut de veille sanitaire (INVS)

This website provides access to five databases on botulism, cancer, invasive meningococcal disease, AIDS and tuberculosis.

http://www.invs.sante.fr/bdd/index.htm

Datafinder - Population Reference Bureau

This database contains data on  demographic variables for more than 220 countries, 28 world regions and sub-regions, the world as a whole, the United States as a whole, and the U.S. states. (Not all countries have data on all variables.)

http://www.prb.org/datafind/datafinder7.htm

Demographic and economic module - Euro-Méditerranean Consortium for Applied Research on International Migration (CARIM)

The database contains statistics on migration originated from, destinated to, or transiting through the Mediterranean countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). A standardised list of 70 tables on flows and stocks applies to all countries

http://www.carim.org/index.php?areaid=4&contentid=5

Demographic and Social Statistics - United Nations. Statistic Division

This section provides databases and tables from United Nations publications (Population and vital statistics report, demographic yearbook) and covers the folowing themes : size and structure of the population, births, deaths and migration, family formation, families and households

http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/sconcerns/default.htm

Demographic Yearbook System - United Nations

The Demographic Yearbook disseminates statistics on population size and composition, births, deaths, marriage and divorce on an annual basis since 1948. Demographic Yearbook special topics issues cover a wide range of additional topics including economic activity, educational attainment, household characteristics, housing, ethnicity and language, among others. The different editions are available online.

http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/default.htm

Disability statistical database (DISTAT) - United Nations Statistics Division

Database on prevalence rates on disability by age and sex

http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/sconcerns/disability/disab2.asp

Données chiffrées - Observatoire national de l'enfance en danger. ONED

The French national observatory for children at risk (ONED in French) provides data on child welfare both at the national and international levels.

http://www.oned.gouv.fr/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&id=6&Itemid=76

e-Geopolis. Population of urban areas of 10 000 inhabitants or more

The creation of e-Geopolis website aims at spreading and increasing the value of a corpus of statistical data about the world population which describes the evolution of more than 50 000 towns from 1800 to nowadays.

http://e-geopolis.eu/

EarthTrends - World Resources Institute (WRI)

Database on environment ( water resources, climate, agriculture and food, energy, forests, energy...). Country profile, data tables, maps are also available

http://earthtrends.wri.org/

EDACwowe. European Data Center for Work and Welfare

EDACwowe is the META-DATA-SHELL for European research and policy making in the areas of work and welfare.
EDACwowe gives information on and direct links to comparative and national, quantitative and qualitative data on work and welfare and closely related fields.

http://www.edacwowe.eu/

EdStat - World bank, UNESCO, OECD

EdStats compiles data from a variety of sources and is divided into several modules: Global country data,. thematic dataincluding projections of school age population, private education expenditures, rates of returns to investment in education, gender disaggregated profiles, and learning assessment scores

http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTEDUCATION/EXTDATASTATISTICS/EXTEDSTATS/0,,menuPK:3232818~pagePK:64168427~piPK:64168435~theSitePK:3232764,00.html

European detailed mortality database (DMDB) - WHO / Europe

Allows the user-defined selection and display of mortality data by three-digit codes of the International Classification of Diseases and five-year age groups.

http://data.euro.who.int/dmdb/

European Health Expectancy Monitoring Unit (EHEMU).

This website is designed to provide European life and health expectancies from the Ehemu database and Information System. It includes a calculation guide and programs (excel, SAS and SPSS) to calculate health expectancies oneself. An interpreting guide is provided for non-technical readers.
It is also possible to find EHEMU publications (presentations and reports); a bibliography with a search engine; a glossary and a link to the official site of the Healthy Life Years indicator. EHEMU belongs to the international network REVES.

http://www.ehemu.eu/

European health for all database (HFA-DB) - World health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe

This database contains data on about 600 health indicators, including basic demographic and socioeconomic indicators; some lifestyle- and environment-related indicators; mortality, morbidity and disability; hospital discharges; and health care resources, utilization and expenditure for European countries

http://www.euro.who.int/hfadb

Eurostat

The Eurostat site provides detailed statistics on the European Union, the EU Member States, the euro zone, and other countries.
The data series are retrospective, some dating back to 1930 or 1950. All the databases and publications in electronic format can be accessed free of charge.Information is viewed via databases or tables covering 9 themes: key indicators on EU policy, general statistics by geographical areas, economy and finance, population and social conditions, industry, trade and services, agriculture and fisheries, external trade, transport, environment and energy, science and technology.
Users can register free of charge to access advanced functionalities (query saving, large downloads)

http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/

Family Planning Worldwide 2008 Data Sheet. - Population Reference Bureau

This PRB data sheet presents information about women, fertility rates, and contraceptive methods used in more than 150 countries.

http://www.prb.org/FrenchContent/Articles/2008/Ficheplanificationfamiliale2008.aspx

Faostat - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

This database currently contains over 3 million time-series records covering international statistics in the following areas: agriculture, trade, land use and irrigation, population, food aid shipments...

http://faostat.fao.org/

FELICIE Future elderly living conditions in Europe. Interactive database - INED, GEDAP, LSHTM, LSE, MPIDR, NIDI, Univ. Firenze, FCHS/UNL, UHDS, KDGD, FNG

This interactive database provides projections of the elderly population aged 75+ (marital status, health, existence of children, level of education and income, living arrangement) for the countries concerned by the project FELICIE : Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, United Kingdom.

http://www.felicie.org/ASP/mainPub.asp?lang=EN

Gender Info 2007 - United Nations Statistics Division in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).

Gender Info 2007 is a global database of gender statistics and indicators on a wide range of policy areas, including: population, families, health, education, work, and political participation. Users will find in Gender Info an easy-to-use tool to shed light on gender issues through customizable tables, graphs and maps. Use Internet explorer.

http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/genderinfo/

Gender Statistics Database - United Nations economic commission for Europe

This database provides the common gender indicators for the ECE region, and the detailed data series with the policy areas, which are population, families and households, work and the economy, education, public life and decision making, health, crime and violence. Data series are presented by country, year, and by social and demographic breakdowns 

http://w3.unece.org/pxweb/Dialog/Default.asp

GenderStats - World Bank

The database of gender statistics and indicators includes themes that range from health and education to political participation and poverty. Data is presented for 1980, 1985, 1990, 1997 (where available), and is available only as pre-formatted tables. Also available are comparative tables from the World Development Indicators on reproductive health, gender differences and gender and education

http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/AFRICAEXT/EXTAFRREGTOPGENDER/0,,contentMDK:20297460~menuPK:584643~pagePK:34004173~piPK:34003707~theSitePK:502360,00.html

Generation and Gender contextual database - Population Activities Unit of the United Nation’s Economic Commission of Europe

The Contextual Database of the Generations and Gender Program is a comparative collection of around 200 contextual variables on the national and regional level for each country participating in the international Generations and Gender Program. The database is organized around 16 central topics: fertility, partnership, transition to adulthood, economic activity as well as the intergenerational and gender relations between people expressed e.g. in care relations or the organization of paid and unpaid work. The data include statistical norms, legal norms and regulations, measures of welfare state policies and institutions as well as general economic and cultural indicators. Data are currently available for Canada, Bulgaria, Russia, Hungary, and Romania.

http://www.ggp-i.org/contextual-database.html

GéoHive - Johan van der Heyden

This site provides geopolitical data, statistics on education, economy, religion, population, from different sources. The data mainly concerns the population of regions, countries, provinces and cities. There is also a section with charts

http://www.geohive.com/

Global Alcohol Database - World Health Organization (WHO)

This database provides a standardized reference source of information for global epidemiological surveillance of alcohol use, alcohol related problems and alcohol policies. The database brings together a large amount of information on the alcohol and health situation in individual countries and, wherever possible, includes trends in alcohol use and related mortality since 1961

http://www.jointogether.org/resources/global-alcohol-database.html

Graphics Bank - Population Reference Bureau

The Graphics Bank contains  PowerPoint presentations organized by topic: Aging, Family Planning, HIV/AID,Population Basics, Income/Poverty, Reproductive Health, Youth.

http://www.prb.org/Publications/GraphicsBank.aspx

Gridded Population of the World (GPWv3) and the Global Rural-Urban Mapping Project (GRUMP) - Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) of the Earth Institute at Columbia University

Gridded Population of the World (GPWv3) is the third edition of a large-scale data product that demonstrates the spatial distribution of human populations across the globe. The purpose of the GPWv3 project is to provide a spatially disaggregated population layer that is compatible with datasets from social, economic, and earth science fields. The population data estimates are provided for the period 1990-2015.
The interactive mapper gives a preview of the Gridded Population of the World data sets within a user-defined region.

http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/gpw/

Health databases Eco-santé - IRDES

Health Data Bases offers access to more than 60 000 figures for the health systems analysis. Main topics: health status of the population, health expenditures, health professions, hospital, health care insurance and more global indicators such as: demography, economy. 
Free access is available for France and Quebec and with payment for OECD.

http://www.irdes.fr/EspaceAnglais/HealthDataBases/HealthDataBases.html

HIV/AIDS Surveillance Database - US Census Bureau

This database is a compilation of information from widely scattered small-scale surveys on the AIDS pandemic and on the HIV seroprevalence (infection) in population groups in developing countries

http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/hiv/

HIV/AIDS Survey Indicators Database - USAID, UNAIDS, UNICEF

This database provides indicators on HIV from sample surveys. Currently, the main sources of HIV/AIDS indicators in the database are the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS), the Reproductive Health Surveys (RHS), the Sexual Behavior Surveys (SBS), and the Behavioral Surveillance Surveys (BSS)

http://www.measuredhs.com/hivdata/

HNPStats - World Bank

The World Bank's Health, Nutrition and Population data platform is a one-stop data source for health, nutrition and population indicators from various national and international data sources. It provides direct access to more than 100 indicators, with time series for countries and country groups from 1960 to the most recent year, where data are available. A section of HNPStats contains an atlas database where users can access and download maps

http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTHEALTHNUTRITIONANDPOPULATION/EXTDATASTATISTICSHNP/EXTHNPSTATS/0,,menuPK:3237172~pagePK:64168427~piPK:64168435~theSitePK:3237118,00.html

Human Development Reports - United Nations Development Programme

All the data of Human development report are available for download in several different ways: you may either select a country to see all its data from the indicator tables or view the data by a specific indicator for all countries. Alternately, you may access the 33 indicator tables, in either Excel or PDF format, and view them on-screen or download and animation

http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/data/

Human Fertility Database (HFD)

The Human Fertility Database (HFD) is a joint project of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) the Vienna Institute of Demography (VID). Its main goal is to provide free and user-friendly access to detailed, well-documented and high-quality data on period and cohort fertility and thus to facilitate research on changes and inter-country differences in fertility in the past and in the modern era. At present the database contains data for the following countries: Austria, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Russia, Sweden, U.S.A.

http://www.humanfertility.org/cgi-bin/main.php

Human Mortality Database The (HMD) - Department of demography, University of Berkeley, Max Planck institute of research

This database is an outgrowth of an earlier project: « Berkeley mortality database ». The database contains detailed data for a collection of 30 countries. Time series since 19 century for births, deaths, mortality tables Before gaining full access to the database, a registration is required for new users

http://www.mortality.org/

Human Settlements Statistical Database - Human Settlements Statistical Database

Statistical database with comprehensive national statistics on human settlements. More specifically, data on the following categories and topics are available on the national level: demography, economy, land/natural resources, housing, infrastructure

http://ww2.unhabitat.org/habrdd/hsdb4.htm

Integrated European Census Microdata - Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics, Minnesota Population Center

The Integrated European Census Microdata (IECM) database, one of the world's largest integrated research infrastructure for the study of human populations, is now under construction. The database will contain anonymized microdata samples encompassing as many as 50 censuses
By 2010, the IPUMS International is committed to disseminating at least 150 integrated census microdata sets from 40 or more countries. European censuses will constitute approximately one-third of the database thanks to the widespread support of national statistical agencies in Europe.

http://www.iecm-project.org/

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series Census Microdata for Social and Economic Research ( IPUMS ) - Minnesota Population Center

IPUMS-International is a project dedicated to collecting and distributing census data from around the world. It will integrate a data series consisting of 158 samples from over 55 countries. It is an extension of the original IPUMS-International, covering 63 samples from 20 countries. The Integrated Public Use Microdata Series USA is a coherent national census database spanning 1850 to 2000. It consists of thirty-seven high-precision samples of the American population drawn from fifteen federal censuses and from the American Community Surveys of 2000-2003

http://international.ipums.org/international/

International Data Base (IDB) - US Census Bureau

This data bank contain statistical tables of demographic and socioeconomic data for 227 countries and areas of the world. Population Pyramids display graphs of the population, by age and sex

http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/

Kannisto-Thatcher database on old age mortality - Max Planck institute for Demographic Research

This database includes data on death counts and population counts classified by sex, age, year of birth, and calendar year for more than 30 countries. This database was established for estimating the death rates at the highest ages (above age 80). A registration is required for new users

http://www.demogr.mpg.de/?http://www.demogr.mpg.de/databases/ktdb/

Laborsta - International Labour Organization (ILO)

Database for over 200 countries or territories on labour. Total and economically active population, employment , hours of work, wages, labour cost, consumer price indices, occupational injuries, strikes and lockouts from 1969. Employment by sex for detailed occupational groups from 1970. Economically active population estimates and projections from 1980 to 2020, international labour migration (since 1986)

http://laborsta.ilo.org/

Les causes de décès en France depuis 1950 - Institut national d’études démographiques (INED)

Database on causes of death by sex and age groups since 1950. This database is based on a (découpage) in 163 classes of the International classification of diseases (ICD)

http://www-deces.ined.fr/1999/

Life tables for 191 countries - World Health Organization (WHO)

Annual life tables for all Member States produced by WHO for 1990, 2000 and 2006 are available here

http://www.who.int/whosis/database/life_tables/life_tables.cfm

Longevity Records

Life Spans of Mammals, Birds, Amphibians, Reptiles, and Fish

http://www.demogr.mpg.de/?http://www.demogr.mpg.de/longevityrecords/

Macroeconomic data - Centre francais d'etude et de recherche en economie internationale (CEPII)

Historical series for France

http://www.cepii.fr/anglaisgraph/bdd/bdd.htm

Mediterranean countries database - MEDSTAT II

Statistical data of the Mediterranean partner countries produced in the framework of the MEDSTAT II programme are freely accessible through the Eurostat's Reference Databases.

http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/medstat/database

Millennium development goals. Data - World Bank

Millennium development goals on data provided by leading agencies for the world, regions and countries. The different themes covered are: poverty, education, Gender Equality, Child Mortality, Maternal Health, Combat Diseases, Environment, Global Partnership.

http://ddp-ext.worldbank.org/ext/GMIS/gdmis.do?siteId=2&menuId=LNAV01HOME3

Mortality from smoking in developed countries 1950-2000 - Richard Peto, Alan D. Lopez, Jillian Boreham, Michael Thun

Smoking-attributed deaths estimated indirectly from national vital statistics for 45 ‘developed' countries or groups of countries

http://rum.ctsu.ox.ac.uk/%7Etobacco/

Mortality indicators by 67 causes of death, age and sex (HFA-MDB) - World health Organization (WHO). Regional Bureau for Europe

Contains about 2500 mortality-based indicators and allows age- and sex-specific analysis of mortality trends

http://www.euro.who.int/en/what-we-do/data-and-evidence/databases/mortality-indicators-by-67-causes-of-death,-age-and-sex-hfa-mdb

MPI Data Hub - Migration policy institute (MPI)

MPI data hub gives instant access to the latest immigration statistics, maps, and numbers for the United States and other countries. The Data Hub showcases the most current national and state-level demographic, social, and economic facts about immigrants to the US; as well as stock, flow, citizenship, net migration, asylum patterns and historical data for countries in Europe, North America, and Oceania.

http://www.migrationinformation.org/datahub/

National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies

France's National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE), collects, produces, analyzes and disseminates information on French economy and society. The information presented on the website falls under seven main headings:
Three headings in blue: INSEE and official statistics; Definitions and methods; Publics
Four headings in red: Topics (gives access to the majority of resources); Databases; Publications; Services and Regions.
The website provides free access to all statistical data and publications.

http://www.insee.fr/en/home/home_page.asp

Observatoire des Territoires - Délégation interministérelle à l'aménagement et à la compétitivité des territoires (DIACT)

This portal gives a selection of territorial data produced by public bodies. The “indicateurs” section offers a selection of indicators presented in the form of maps. Data can be accessed in three different ways: by development challenge; by geographical unit, with indicators presented in a European, national or regional context; or by theme, such as infrastructure, population, employment, living conditions, environment, etc. The maps are interactive. Each indicator is also associated with metadata, definitions and sources, reference documents accessible on line and links to resource centres

http://www.territoires.gouv.fr/

OECD Database on International Migration

The International Migration Database presents annual series for the last 10 years on foreign and foreign-born population, migration flows and naturalisations. It also includes statistics on employment status of foreigners and foreign-born by gender for selected years. These data are published in the annual report International Migration Outlook.

http://www.oecd.org/document/10/0,3343,en_2649_39023663_42274676_1_1_1_1,00.html

OECD Family database - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Information in the Family database is categorised under 4 broad headings: The structure of families, The labour market position of families, Public policies for families and children, Child outcomes.

http://www.oecd.org/document/4/0,3343,en_2649_34819_37836996_1_1_1_1,00.html

OECD Health Data - OECD / IRDES

The following tables offer a sample of indicators that can be found in OECD Health Data, a source of comparable statistics across OECD countries on health and health systems (life expectancy, infant mortality, tobacco and alcohol consumption, obesity..)

http://www.oecd.org/document/60/0,2340,en_2825_495642_2085200_1_1_1_1,00.html

OECD Tables of populations and deaths - Organization for Co-operation and Economic Development (OECD). Office of population research. Princeton University

These files provides population and death statistics for developing countries. For some countries, registered deaths are available from the 1920's up to the mid 1970's. Some statistics are available for both urban and rural populations, as well as other subgroups of the population

http://opr.princeton.edu/archive/oecd/

OFFSTATS Official statistics on the Web - The University of Auckland library

Free statistics from official sources on internet. You can access by country, region or topic

http://www.offstats.auckland.ac.nz/

Pension Systems . Statistics - OECD

Pension reforms and role of private pensions. Population pyramids in 2000 and 2050

http://www.oecd.org/statisticsdata/0,3381,en_2649_34757_1_119656_1_1_37411,00.html

Population and Vital Statistics Report: Series A - United Nations Statistics Division

The Population and Vital Statistics Report: Series A presents most recent data on population size from the latest available census of the population, national official population estimates and the number and rate (births, deaths and infant deaths) for the latest available year within the past 15 years. It also presents United Nations estimates of the mid-year population of the world, with its various areas and regions.

http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/vitstats/

Population des principales unités urbaines du monde - Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE)

Estimated population at July the first 2000 and 2007 from population censuses and official estimations. Data series for 1950 and 1970

http://www.insee.fr/fr/themes/tableau.asp?ref_id=CMPTEF01114

Population in Figures - Institut national d'études démographiques (INED)

Demographic data on population, fertility, contraception, abortion, mortality, nuptiality, the family, migration, projection

http://www.ined.fr/population-en-chiffres/indexF.html

Population of capital cities and cities of 100 000 and more inhabitants - United Nations Statistics Division

Population of the city proper according to its administrative boundaries and on the urban agglomeration . Since population census years differ among countries and areas, the reference years for the city populations vary

http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/City_Page.htm

Population statistics - Jan Lahmeyer

Growth of the population per country in a historical perspective, including their administrative divisions and principal towns

http://www.populstat.info/

Portail de la statistique publique - Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE)

This French public statistics portal enables users to consult public statistical data using different search criteria: domain, free text, key word, area (gives access to national websites). The sections News, Folders and Events, provide the most recent information.

http://www.statistique-publique.fr/

Probabilistic world population projections - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

The detailed results for ten indicators for individual years from 2008 to 2100 for 13 world regions as well as for the world as a whole is given in the following ten Excel files: Total Population, mean Age, Proportion Below Age 20, Proportion 20-60, Proportion Above Age 60, Proportion Above Age 80, Old Age Dependency Ratio (60+ / 20-60), Life Expectancy Females, Life Expectancy Males, Total Fertility Rate (TFR).

http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Research/POP/proj07/index.html?sb=5

Recent Demographic Developments in Europe - Council of Europe

35 demographic indicators in all the forty-six countries : population (size and growth), net migration, marriage, divorce, fertility, mortality and foreign population, pyramids describing the age structure of the population and detailed time-series data tables for each demographic indicator. Selected information and data from prior editions are available free of charge. 2004 is the last edition.

http://www.coe.int/t/e/social_cohesion/population/demographic_year_book/

Recueil de statistiques sur les migrations et les envois de fonds - World Bank

This factbook provides a snapshot of migration and remittances for all countries, regions and income groups of the world, compiled from available data from various sources

http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTDECPROSPECTS/0,,contentMDK:21352016~menuPK:3145470~pagePK:64165401~piPK:64165026~theSitePK:476883,00.html

Science Linkhouse - Library of Statistics Finland

Database of statistical sources available via the Internet. The material is classified by subject field and by country. The search result contains both a description of the source and a direct link to it. The database is compiled by the Library of Statistics Finland

http://www.linkkitalo.fi/SPT--BrowseResources.php?ParentId=28

SCORE-santé. Site Commun d'Observation Régionale En santé - Ministère de la santé et des Solidarités, MSA, Assurance maladie, AMPI, Inserm, Invs, Fnors)

This joint regional health monitoring website provides national, regional and departmental health indicators for France. It currently comprises two levels containing different types of information:
- Level 1: 5 major themes: Population and lifestyles, health of populations, pathologies, behaviour and environment, healthcare and prevention. These major themes are divided into themes (45 altogether), which are in turn divided into sub-themes (80 altogether);
- Level 2: 4 themes: Causes of death, morbidity, child health, women's health

http://www.scoresante.org/score2008/index.html

Séries statistiques - Observatoire français des drogues et toxicomanies (OFDT)

Statistical series on drugs and drug addiction

http://www.ofdt.fr/ofdtdev/live/english-tab.html

Social Indicators - United nations. Statistic Division

A framework of 8 goals, 18 targets and 48 indicators linked to millennium data series as well as to background series related to the target in question: poverty, hunger, primary éducation, gender equality, child mortality, maternal health, hiv, malaria and other diseases, environmental sustainability, global partnership for development

http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/socind/socind2.htm

Statistics and Monitoring - United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

The statistical tool includes economic and social data from 195 countries and territories, with particular reference to children's well-being. Statistics globally and by country, customised statistical tables and core indicators are available

http://www.unicef.org/statistics/index_step1.php

Statistics and Indicators on Women and Men - Nations Unies. Division statistique

The database of gender statistics and indicators includes themes that range from health and education to political participation and poverty. Data is presented for 1980, 1985, 1990, 1997 (where available), and is available only as pre-formatted tables. Also available are comparative tables from the World Development Indicators on reproductive health, gender differences and gender and education

http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/indwm/default.htm

Statistics Portal - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

The Statistics Portal provides free access to some OECD databases as well as extracts from all other databases, classified by topic : agriculture and fisheries, development, economics, education, emerging and transition economies, employment, environment, health, information and communication, insurance and pensions, international migration, public governance and management, science and innovation, social issues, sustainable development, transport... The Portal also provides a gateway to OECD. Stat for real-time access to a large set of on-line statistical databases.

http://www.oecd.org/statsportal/0,2639,en_2825_293564_1_1_1_1_1,00.html

Statistiques des Français de l'étranger - France - Diplomatie

The France Diplomatie website presents statistics on French nationals abroad who are registered with the French consulate.

http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/les-francais-etranger_1296/les-francais-etranger_5294/les-francais-etablis-hors-france_4182/index.html

STATistiques et Indicateurs de la Santé et du Social (STATISS) - Directions régionales des affaires sanitaires et sociales(DRASS) et Direction de la recherche, des études, de l’évaluation et des statistiques (DREES)

The base « STATistiques et Indicateurs de la Santé et du Social» provides data for regions, departments and France on demography, health facilities, health workers, welfare, exclusion

http://www.sante.gouv.fr/drees/statiss/default.htm

The Human Life-Table Database - Max Planck institute of research, Department of demography, University of Berkeley, Institut national d’études démographiques, (INED)

The Human Life-Table Database is a collection of population life tables covering a multitude of countries and many years. HLD includes the following types of data: complete life tables in text format; abridged life tables in text format; references to statistical publications and other data sources; scanned copies of the original life tables as they were published

http://www.lifetable.de/

The International Database on Longevity (IDL)

The International Database on Longevity (IDL) provides validated information on individuals who attain extreme ages. The IDL allows for the demographic analysis of mortality at the highest ages. The data are available for individuals who attained an age of 110 years or more - so called supercentenarians and youger ages for some countries.
The information entered  is supplied by a group of international contributors.  This information is essential for valid demographic analyses. All individual information is made anonymous, and no information on the identity of any individual will be made available. Terms of usage can be found on the website.

http://www.supercentenarians.org/default.htm

The World Factbook - Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

Statistics for 267 countries for different subjects: geography, population, government, economy, communication, transportation, refugees and displaced persons

https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

Tobacco control database - World health organization (WHO). Regional office for Europe

Contains data on smoking prevalence and various aspects of tobacco control policies in European countries. Provides standardized information to track and assess the tobacco-related situation within and across countries

http://data.euro.who.int/tobacco/

UNdata - United Nations Statistics Division

The UN data access system provides the user with a simple single-entry point to global statistics on international trade, national accounts, energy, industry, environment, transport and demographic and social statistics gathered from many national and international sources

http://data.un.org/Default.aspx

Unece statistical database - United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)

This database contains a wide range of data covering Europe, North America and Central Asia on population, families and households, education, employment, economy, trade, health, transport.. Users can download data free of charge.

http://w3.unece.org/pxweb/Dialog/

UNHCR Statistics - United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

This page provides data, trends and statistical reports on the "People of concern to UNHCR": refugees, asylum-seekers, returned refugees, internally displaced and stateless persons in more than 150 countries

http://www.unhcr.org/pages/49c3646c4d6.html

Urban indicators - United Nations human settlements programme

The data presented here is extracted from UN-HABITAT's Global Urban Indicators database. The data is drawn from different sources: Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS); Multiple Indicators Cluster Surveys (MICS); various national household surveys; and other statistical sources.

hhttp://www.unhabitat.org/stats/Default.aspx

US Census Bureau

The US census Bureau website offers a very wide range of statistical data: demographic, economic, geographic, legal and historical. It presents US surveys and census data and provides access to databases and programmes covering countries all over the world.

http://www.census.gov/

US Census Bureau. Census Dates

Countries and areas of the world have been enumerated in censuses for many years. The following tables show the dates of census enumerations over the past half century, as well as projected or scheduled enumerations in the near future from 1945 to 2014

http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/cendates/index.html

WDI Data query - World Bank

Free access to 54 socioeconomic indicators of the World Development Indicators database covering five different years. This fee-paying database provides access to 550 development indicators for 208 countries from 1960. The fields covered are: population, environment, economy, technologies and infrastructure, trade and finance

http://ddp-ext.worldbank.org/ext/DDPQQ/member.do?method=getMembers&userid=1&queryId=135

WHO Mortality Database - World Health Organization (WHO)

This database contains mortality data officially reported by WHO Member States. It includes cause-of-death statistics coded according to the 9th and 10th revision of the ICD, hence the data presented here refer to the years 1979 and later. The following tables are available online: Age- and sex-specific death rates by cause, infant death, estimated level of completeness and coverage of the reported data.
Users can extract data with the VBA program, because these files do not constitute a user-friendly data collection .

http://www.who.int/healthinfo/morttables/en/index.html

World contraceptive use 2005 - United Nations Population Division

This wall chart presents data on the current contraceptive practice for 160 countries and areas. A database on World Contraceptive Use 2003 is also available for sale

http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/contraceptive2005/WCU2005.htm

World Migrant Stock - United Nations Population Division

This database provides 10 indicators on migrants stocks for countries and regions of the world.
Country profile are available for each country and region.

http://esa.un.org/migration/

World population and housing censuses programme 2010 - United Nations statistics division

Census dates for countries from 1985 to 2011, census questionnaires, and links on available data.

http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/sources/census/2010_PHC/default.htm

World Population Data Sheet - Population Reference Bureau

Up-to-date demographic data and estimates for all the countries and major regions of the world

http://www.prb.org/Publications/Datasheets/2009/2009wpds.aspx

World Population in 2300 - United Nations Population Division

Long range population projection to 2300

http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/longrange2/longrange2.htm

World Population Prospect Data Base - United Nations. Population Division

The database gives estimates (1950-2000) and projections (2000-2050) for the world, regions of the world and countries.
Panel 1 provides basic data : population, density, urban and rural population.
Panel 2 provides detailed data : population by five-year age group and sex, sex ratio, median age, population growth rate, crude birth, death, migration rates, life expectancy at birth, fertility rate, (total and by age of mother), birth by age of mother, mortality by sexe, infant mortality
Country profile provides main demographic indicators for each country and region.

http://esa.un.org/unpp/

World Urbanization Prospects : The 2009 Revision Population Database - Nations Unies. Division de la population

Estimation and projections of population for capital cities, urban agglomerations with 750 000 persons or more in 2000 and urban and rural areas

http://esa.un.org/wup2009/unup/index.asp?panel=1

World Vital Events per time Unit - U.S. Census Bureau

World vital events for different units of time are computed based on the number of months, days, hours, minutes, or seconds in the given year.

http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/ipc/pcwe