Population, Demography & Statistics

Population & Demography

POPIN: United Nations Population Information Network
Comprehensive resource for world population includes Directory of World Population Institutions, statistical information, world population trends and conference and meeting information.
url: http://www.un.org/popin/

World Population Trends
Part of the POPIN website which includes data for key areas of population change.
url: http://www.un.org/popin/wdtrends.htm

Population Explosion Counter
The World population clock purports to be calculated on trends and estimates produced by the UN world Population Estimates & Projections.
url: http://sunsite.unc.edu/lunarbin/worldpop

Demography and Population Virtual Library
"his facility is provided by the Demography Program of the Australian National University to keep track of leading information facilities of value and/or significance to researchers in the field of Demography. This month's additions are marked "
url: http://demography.anu.edu.au/VirtualLibrary/

World Population Statistics from the U.S Census Bureau
Searchable database of population statistics for different countries.
url: http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbprint.html

IDB Population Pyramids
US Census Bureau page which This page allows the creation of population pyramids (graphs that show the distribution of population by age and sex) for a specific country. Data last updated 15th June 1998.
url: http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbpyr.html

State of the World Population 2005
Full-text for this report produced by the United Nations Population Fund. Report available for downloading in PDF format. Reports for 1996-2001 are also available from the UNFPA Website.
url: http://www.unfpa.org/swp/swpmain.htm

PopNet: Source For Global Population Information.
"PopNet is produced and maintained by the Population Reference Bureau with funding assistance from the US Agency for International Development (USAID)." This website includes a directory of governmental, non-governmental organisations & University centres worldwide, a topic directory, news service and a clickable map for locating regional resources.
url: http://www.popnet.org/

World Resources Institute
Reports and statistical data on a range of topics including reources, environment, population and governance and institutions.
url: http://www.wri.org/

City population
"City population provides statistics and maps about the population of the major agglomerations of the world. For many countries, information about the population of their administrative areas and the principal cities is provided."
url: http://www.citypopulation.de/

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Australian Statistics

Australia Now: A Statistical Profile
An excellent source for basic statistical information on Australian society,education, economy, demography, geography and environment. There are over thirty main categories of statistical information. Click on the Statistics option on the main ABS website menu for other freely available statistical information. University of Sydney staff and students cab access the full-text of ABS publications (1998+) Further information is available via
url: http://www.abs.gov.au/Ausstats/ABS%40.nsf/94713ad445ff1425ca25682000192af2!OpenView

Australian Bureau of Statistics. Key National Indicators.
This Australian Bureau of Statistics website contains a summary of Australia's key economic and social indicators. Data is updated as soon as it becomes available.
url: http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/d3310114.nsf/4a256353001af3ed4b2562bb00121564/58ba6eb7feb12df74a2564a50083481d?OpenDocument

Australian Bureau of Statistics. Community Profile Data on the Internet
This ABS Website provides summary tables from the 1996 Census Basic Community Profile series. Required area can be located by clicking on a map, selecting links for regions then sub-regions or by using the website search engine. Data can be obtained for Statistical Local Areas to total Australia.
url: http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/d3310108.nsf/

Monthly Economic and Social Indicators (MESI)
Compiled by the Parliament of Australia, Parliamentary Library this online publication contains tables and graphs for the major economic and social indicators. A Monthly Economic and Social Indicators (MESI), Historical Supplement 1999 is also available. It is noted on these websites that material has been "...prepared for general distribution to Members of the Australian Parliament. and is not an " official parliamentary or Australian government document."
url: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/mesi/

Australian Immigration Statistics.
Basic statistical information from Australian Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs (DIMA). Statistics are available for the Migration Program, Humanitarian Program, Settler arrivals (summary only), Population Flows and annual Consolidated Statistics.
url: http://www.immi.gov.au/statistics/index.htm

Australian Multiculturalism for a New Century: Towards Inclusiveness-Statistical Index.
Prepared by Australian Bureau of Statistics and Professor Murray Goot, Professor of Politics at Macquarie University includes two sections Demographic and sociological trends in Australia since 1947; & Migrant numbers, Asian immigration and multiculturalism: trends in the polls, 1943-1998. Also avaialble in word or PDF formats.
url: http://www.immi.gov.au/multicultural/_inc/publications/nmac/statistics.pdf

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW)
"The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare produces a wide range of publications covering such issues as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health (in collaboration); Aged Care; Cancer; Cardiovascular Disease; Child and Family Services; Dental Health (in collaboration); Disability Services; Food and Nutrition; General Practice (in collaboration); Health and Welfare Expenditure; Health and Welfare Labour Force; Health Services; Health Technology (largely out of print); Housing; Injury (in collaboration); Institute Publications; National Health and Welfare Information; Perinatal Health (in collaboration); and Population Health." Many significant publications are available in full-text Adobe Acrobat format including Australia's Health; Australia's Welfare & Australia's Children: their health and well-being.
url: http://www.aihw.gov.au/

Australian Care Statistics
Statistical information from Aged and Community Care Division, Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care. Statistics include Community Care Statistics 1995-96 to1997-98, Length of Stay in Nursing Homes and Hostels 1996/97; Nursing Homes in Australia 1995-96: A Statistical Overview; Older Australia at a Glance Fact Sheets; Residential Aged Care Sector Summary - January 1997.
url: http://www.health.gov.au/acc/stat/

Communicable Diseases Australia. Annual disease data
Statistical data for communicable diseases
url: http://www1.health.gov.au/cda/Source/CDA-index.cfm

Health Insurance Commission, Statistical Information.
Statistics for medical and pharmaceutical benefits, immunisation and childcare rebates.
url: http://www.hic.gov.au/abouthic/our_organisation/annual_report/03_04/index.htm

National Injury Surveillance Unit (NISU) Data Publications
Based at Flinders University, South Australia NISU provides data on Injury deaths. There are special reports on firearm related deaths and youth suicide and self injury and An Atlas of Injury Death in Australia 1990-1992 giving distribution of selected causes of injury death by Statistical Subdivision. The What's new section of this website often provides listings of publications on specific topics (eg. eye injuries, dogbites etc)
url: http://www.nisu.flinders.edu.au/navpage.php

NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics & Research.
New South Wales Court and Criminal (trends, offenders, victims, domestic violence) Statistics and fact sheets on hot topics such as juvenile crime, assaults, knife attacks and robberies.
url: http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/bocsar1.nsf/pages/index

Australian Institute of Criminology.
Comprehensive source for Australian Criminal Justice Statistics includes a Statistical Profile of Crime in Australia, facts and figures for 1998 and 1999, juvenile, homicide, fire arm deaths, deaths in custody and police service statistics.
url: http://www.aic.gov.au/stats/index.html

Commonwealth Department of the Treasury. Economic Data.
This website includes "...details key indicators of the Australian economy that are recorded for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC). Competitiveness Based Indices; The most recent annual and quarterly data on Treasury�s three competitiveness based indices, namely: Unit Labour Costs (ULC); the Consumer Price Index (CPI); and GDP implicit price deflator; Pocket Brief to the Australian Taxation System; A brief overview of taxation arrangements in Australia, in figure tables and the most recent annual and quarterly data on nominal and real unit labour cost estimates."
url: http://www.treasury.gov.au/content/economic.asp

Australian Bureau of Transport Economics. Transport Indicators.
Index of Indicators includes Maritime Indicators; General Activity Indicators; Freight Activity Indicators & Passenger Activity Indicators.
url: http://www.dotars.gov.au/btre/docs/trnstats02/trnstats.htm

Australian Bureau of Tourism Research. data Resources
Datacard is the Australian Bureau of Tourism Research Website which provides a pocket reference to key tourism statistics. Selected statistics from: The International Visitor Survey; The National Visitor Survey and The Domestic Tourism Monitor are available. Note only selected statistics are available.
Freely available statistical data is available from the Bureau of Tourism Datacard page.
url: http://www.btr.gov.au/service/svc_index.cfm

Australian Overseas Aid. Aid Program Statistics
Australian Budget for Overseas Aid available in PDF and HTML formats from the Australian Agency for International Development Website.
url: http://www.ausaid.gov.au/about/stats/default.cfm

Audit Bureau of Circulations (Australia)
"The Audit Bureau of Circulations was created with a simple objective: to audit publisher's circulation claims and to standardise, verify and disseminate circulation information for the benefits of its tripartite membership." Provides information and statistics on newspaper and magazine circulation in Australia.
url: http://www.auditbureau.org.au/

Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Climate Statistics.
Includes Australian climates - overview; Tables of averages for specific locations; Maps - Variability, Average Rainfall & Temperature; Graphs of averages for selected stations. Other Freely available information includes "... Current Weather Observations, the Previous 14 days of Selected Observations and Maps through the SILO website (historical climate data are also available via subscription), and Climate Maps and Averages."
url: http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages

Statistics Queensland.
Excellent website from the Queensland Treasury. Office of Economic and Statistical Research.
url: http://www.statistics.qld.gov.au/

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International Statistics

Statistical Resources on the Web Foreign and International Economics
Part of the statistical resource directory compiled by the University of Michigan Documents Center. This directory is organised by broad subject categories.
url: http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stecfor.html

UNEP Socioeconomic data
Socioeconomic data portal for the United Nations Environment Programme.
url: http://socioeconomic.unep.net/

Country Indicators for Foreign Policy
Project initiated by the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade and Norman Paterson School of International Affairs which "represents an on-going effort to identify and assemble statistical information conveying the key features of the economic, political, social and cultural environments of countries around the world."
url: http://www.carleton.ca/cifp/

Business & Economics Numeric Data.
Directory for locating mainly United States statistical and economic data.
url: http://www.mnsfld.edu/depts/lib/ecostats.html

FAOSTATS
"FAOSTAT is an on-line and multilingual database currently containing over one million time-series records covering international statistics in the following areas: production, trade, food balance sheets, food aid shipments, fertilizer and pesticides, land use and irrigation, forest products, fishery products, population and agricultural machinery."
url: http://apps.fao.org/

United Nations Cyberschool Bus
United Nations resource providing graphs and charts for major global trends. Information is available for the following areas; Population, Health, Food and Agriculture, Women, Children, Economic Development, Climate and Environment & Social Indicators.
url: http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/

INFONATION
InfoNation is an easy-to-use, two-step database that allows you to view and compare the most up-to-date statistical data for the Member States of the United Nations. From the first menu, up to seven countries can be selected. Data menus then allow the selection of statistics from various data fields. Data ranges from carbon emission,& average temperature to illiteracy rates & GDP.
url: http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/infonation/e_infonation.htm

Penn World Data
From the National Bureau of Economic Research, Harvard University, USA PWE provides access to online statistics covering 28 key variables on world economies, from 1960-1992. Another slightly friendlier version is available from Bized in the UK.
url: http://pwt.econ.upenn.edu/

The Progress of Nations 2000
UNICEF publication which chronicles the relatioship between economic growth and social conditions. Contents include essays and statistical indicators for nutrition, children, women, education, health and industrialisation. Progress of Nations for previous year are also available in full-text from the UNICEF website.
url: http://www.unicef.org/pon00/

Statistical tables from the Human Development Report 2000.
United Nations Development Fund report includes a data and charts for downloading. Earlier reports are available from this website.
url: http://www.undp.org/hdr2000/home.html

UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Key website for UNESCO statistics
url: http://unescostat.unesco.org/

United Nations Global Statistics.
Website which brings together all major statistical services at the United Nations.
url: http://www.un.org/Depts/unsd/global.htm

United Nations Social Indicators
Statistical Information from the United nations. Department of Economics and Social Affairs. The link to Social Indicators contains statistical tables for indicators including literacy, education, human settlement, housing, sanitation and unemployment.
url: http://www.un.org/Depts/unsd/index.html

World Education Statistics
UNESCO Educational Statistics.
url: http://portal.unesco.org/uis/ev.php?URL_ID=3753&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201

World Economic Outlook: Financial Turbulance and the World Economy
Survey from the international Monetary Fund.
url: http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/weo1098/index.htm

Statistical Tables from UNESCO's World Culture Report.
Statistical information for many cultural activities including newspapers, books & libraries; radio, television & cinema; recorded music; performing arts; archives & museums; national public holidays etc...
url: http://www.unesco.org/culture/worldreport/html_eng/tables2.shtml

WHOSIS: WHO Statistical Information System.
Includes many valuable sources for health related statistical information for eg; Basic Health Indicators from the World Health report 2000, AIDS/HIV Statistics & Immunization Profiles
url: http://www3.who.int/whosis/menu.cfm

World Tourism Overview
World Tourism trends with a selection of the latest available statistics on international tourist arrivals, tourism receipts, and expenditures. Produced by the World Tourism Organisation, these reports are available for downloading in Adobe Acrobat Format.
url: http://www.world-tourism.org/facts/menu.html

Regional & National Statistics

Statistical Resources on the Web
Comprehensive resource directory from the University of Michigan Documents Center. Thie directory is organised by broad subject categories.
url: http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stats.html

National Publications and Statistical Yearbooks, current statistics and Internet sites.
url: http://www.un.org/Depts/unsd/refs3.htm

Asia and the Pacific in Figures 2002
Statistical information from UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific.
url: http://www.unescap.org/stat/statdata/apinfig.htm

Eurostat
url: http://epp.eurostat.cec.eu.int/portal/page?_pageid=1153,47169267,1153_47181498&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL

Statistics in Japan
From Japan Information Network comprehensive collection of economic and social statistics.
url: http://web-japan.org/stat/index.html

The Source: of UK facts and figures.
Includes tables tables of basic statistical information for the United Kingdom.
url: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/

A Century of Change: Trends in UK statistics since 1900
United Kingdom. House of Commons Research Paper 99/111. "This paper presents a summary of social and economic trends of the twentieth century.The paper gives information on a range of topics for which consistent data are available. The major areas considered over the last 100 years are demography, health, education, housing, crime, energy and the economy.The position of England at the turn of the last millennium is discussed also, as recorded in the Domesday Book." The paper includes graphs and charts. Produced by ,Joe Hicks & Grahame Allen. The document should open in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.
url: http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/rp99/rp99-111.pdf

USA Statistics in Brief.
From the U.S Census Bureau "USA Statistics in Brief is a supplement to the Statistical Abstract of the United States and presents national summary data and state population estimates."
url: http://www.census.gov/statab/www/brief.html

Statistical Data Locators.
Directory compiled by the Library at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, particularly useful for locating statistical data for the Asian-Pacific region. United Nations website providing links to National Statistical organisations and resources, many include freely available information for example; Country fact & data sheets, social & economic indicators and trade & industry information. Not all websites have information available in English.
url: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/lib/stat/statdata.htm

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Statistical Directories

OFFSTATS
"OFFSTATS lists web sites offering free and easily accessible social, economic and general data from official or similar "quotable" sources, especially those that provide both current data and time series. In the country lists, these are mainly web pages provided by statistical offices, central banks and government departments and agencies, whereas the topics list is comprised of links to the statistics pages of international organizations and associations and a few commercial sites. " This site is published and maintained by Rianer Wolcke, International Commerce and Statistics Librarian, University of Auckland Library, New Zealand. Search by country, region or topic.
url: http://www.auckland.ac.nz/lbr/stats/offstats/OFFSTATSmain.htm

Nation Master
Comprehensive collection of statistical data for a wide range of topics. Limited graphing capability available.
url: http://www.nationmaster.com/

The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Statistics
Maintained by the University of Florida Department of Statistics.
url: http://www.stat.ufl.edu/vlib/statistics.html

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Women

The World's Women 2000: trends and statistics
url: http://www.un.org/Depts/unsd/gender/

Women's Statistics News Releases (United States, Census Bureau.)
url: http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/women.html

WomenWatch:Statistics and Indicators
Statistical Information from the United Nations Statistics Division includes the World's Women 2000 The Statistics on this website have all been updated since the publication of this book. Site also inclues a Fact Sheet on Women and decision-making.
url: http://www.un.org/womenwatch/resources/stats.htm

Genderstats
Statistical information from the World Banks GenderNet website. search by country for summary gender profile, basic demographic data, population dynamics and Labor force, education and health data. There are international comparisons from World Development Indicators.
url: http://genderstats.worldbank.org/

Statistics on Women in Computer Science
Part of the TAP website at Yale University mainly US data.
url: http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/tap/statistics.html

WHO Fact Sheets on Women's Health
Fact sheets on a wide range of women's health issues. Part of the World Health Organisation Women's Health Website.
url: http://www.who.int/docstore/frh-whd/FactSheets/English/

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