International Statistics

• (UN) Demographic Yearbook 
  The United Nations Demographic Yearbook collects, compiles and disseminates official 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. Available online from 2000; latest two years has tables and notes only.

   

• International Data Base (IDB) and World Population Information 
  US Census Bureau's computerized data bank containing statistical tables of demographic and socioeconomic data for all countries of the world, including population pyramids.

   

• International Organization for Migration 
  Online reports on migration and human trafficking issues.

   

• Migration Policy Institute Data Hub 
  Includes stock data, migration, asylum, and citizenship information.

   

• Population Index on the Web 
  "A searchable and browsable database containing 41,103 abstracts of demographic literature published in Population Index in the period 1986 - 1998."

   

• Population Reference Bureau 
  Selected full-text excerpts from their publications catalog.

   

• United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) 
  Full-text of the State of the World Population Reports.

   

• United Nations Population Information Network (POPIN) 
  World Population Trends including data on Fertility and Family Planning, Mortality and Migration, Population Ageing, and World Population Estimates and Projections.

   

• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) 
  Statistical reports on refugees including data on asylum seeking and the demographics of refugee populations.

   

• UN Statistics Division: Demographic, Social and Housing Statistics 
  Information on population, migration, women, disabilities, etc. 
  

   

• Worldwide Refugee Information 
  "The World Refugee Survey reports on conditions for refugees and internally displaced persons in 120 countries." 

Sources are drawn from an excellent guide produced by the University Libraries of the University of Maryland.