Statistics Resources: Population & Demography

McKinsey Global Institute has produced an interactive map based urban growth 2025 projections. (Interactive map requires Flash plugin)

he Megacities Carbon Project is developing, testing, and improving robust methods for assessing carbon emissions and monitoring the atmospheric trends of carbon attributed to the world’s largest cities.

The Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations has been issuing, since 1988, every two years revised estimates and projections of the urban and rural populations of all countries in the world and of their major urban agglomerations. The World Urbanization Prospects are used widely throughout the United Nations and by many international organizations, research centers, academic researchers and the media.

The Center for Immigration Studies is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit, research organization devoted to research and policy analysis of the economic, social, demographic, fiscal, and other impacts of immigration on the US. Its mission is to provide immigration policymakers, the academic community, news media, and concerned citizens with reliable information about the social, economic, environmental, security, and fiscal consequences of legal and illegal immigration into the United States.

The U.S. Census Bureau produces annual estimates of net international migration for the nation, states, and counties in the United States. These estimates are based in part on data collected in censuses and surveys.

A compendium of tables that provides data on foreign nationals who were naturalized, granted lawful permanent residence, admitted into the United States on a temporary basis, or applied for asylum or refugee status.

IPUMS International is an effort to inventory, preserve, harmonize, and disseminate census microdata from around the world. The project has collected the world's largest archive of publicly available census samples. The data are coded and documented consistently across countries and over time to facillitate comparative research. IPUMS-International makes these data available to qualified researchers free of charge through a web dissemination system.

Includes the annually updated World Population Data Sheet and PRB's extensive database.

Demographic data for 228 countries and areas of the world, covering 1950-present, with projections to 2050. Sources include the U.N., U.S. Census Bureau estimates, and nat'l statistical agencies.

Prepared by the Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, the World Population Prospects are used widely throughout the United Nations and by many international organizations, research centers, academic researchers and the media.

The United Nations Demographic Yearbook collects, compiles and disseminates official statistics on a wide range of topics. Data have been collected from national statistical authorities since 1948 through a set of questionnaires dispatched annually by the United Nations Statistics Division to over 230 national statistical offices.
The Demographic Yearbook disseminates statistics on population size and composition, births, deaths, marriage and divorce on an annual basis. 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.

Gateway to a variety of UN websites with population data.

Key health, nutrition and population statistics gathered from a variety of international sources.

This 2015 statistical study provides estimates of the proportion of labour migrant workers among the total number of migrants worldwide. It outlines the regions and industries where international migrant workers are established and includes a specific focus on migrants in domestic work with updated numbers.

An important part of the World Bank's work on migration and remittances involves efforts to monitor and forecast remittance and migration flows, and to provide timely analysis on topics such as remittances, migration, and diaspora issues.

The Data Hub showcases the most current national and state-level demographic, social, and economic facts about immigrants to the United States; as well as stock, flow, citizenship, net migration, and historical data for countries in Europe, North America, and beyond.

Full-time statisticians in UNHCR's Field Information and Coordination Section track the number of displaced persons. These figures are released every year in Global Trends and Global Appeal reports.

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