Social Sciences: Population & Demography


See also UVA Geostat's Demographic resources

  1. Datafinder from the Population Reference Bureau
    ,Donors and partners include government agencies, nongovernmental organizations, foundations, and universities. This database contains data on 136 population, health, and environment variables for more than 220 countries, 28 world regions and sub-regions, and the world as a whole. (Not all countries have data on all variables.)

  2. United Nations Population Information Network
    Population statistics for every country in the world, plus data on children, refugees, urbanization, health, education and literacy, and much more.

  3. U.S. Census Bureau Home Page
    Find 2000 Census figures online as well as a wealth of data on American People, Business, Geographic and Special topics.

  4. State and County Income and Poverty Estimates
    National, state, and county poverty statistics by age and income from the Census Bureau.

  5. U.S. Population Estimates
    From the Census Bureau, population estimates (refers to past and present data) for the U.S., going back to 1900 in some cases. Many different data sets are available -- see search option on orange bar top of page. Population projections also av$

  6. Modern Language Association Language Map of the U.S.
    "View an interactive map showing the numbers of speakers of thirty-three languages and language groups. Click the map to zoom in on a region. Add or remove county and city names, rivers and lakes, and highways. A bar graph beneath the map provides the actual numbers of speakers by state; for numbers of speakers by zip code, town, city, or county, use the Data Center." More information from MLA about this map here.

  7. U.S. and World Population Clocks
    From the U.S. Census Bureau.

  8. Population Index
    From Princeton University comes an online version of the popular print index for 1986-2000. Search by author, subject, or region.

  9. Forced Migration Online
    " FMO provides a series of guides to key forced migration ("movements of refugees and internally displaced people") themes and country situations; a library of full-text documents ...a searchable collection of links; a directory of contact information...Each guide has been written by a subject or country expert." From the Refugee Studies Centre.

  10. The Institute for the Study of International Migration from Georgetown University.
    Provides links to information about their activities as well as to full-text publications. For migration and refugee information from a similar group see also The Center for Comparative Immigration Studies. (University of California at San Diego)

  11. Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States, 1790-1990
    Detailed tables of the largest urban places in the U.S. from 1790 to 1990 including rank of cities by and rank. From the Census Bureau.


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