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Data sets may be freely used.  We ask that proper citation is given.


All these data sets are made up of data from the US government. Generally they are free to use if you use the data in the US. If you are outside of the US, you may need to contact the US Govt to ask.
Data from the World Factbook is public domain. The website says "The World Factbook is in the public domain and may be used freely by anyone at anytime without seeking permission."   
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/docs/faqs.html  


CIA World Factbook 2013   http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/CIAWorldFactbook2013.xlsx   population, area, infant mortality rate, death rate, migration percent, GDP, a couple of other variables. A version in the 2003 version of excel is here   http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/CIAWorldFactbook2013_excel03.xls     


Population, 1950 to 2030.   http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/WorldPopulation.xlsx   from the US Census Bureau, International Data Base. Data retrieved May 2013. The data appears to be the same as one below, up to 1979, and then differs slightly


Population data, 1950 to 2050   http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/countrypopulationtrendgraphs19502050.ods    population, continent and countries, 1950 to 2050, from the US Census Bureau, along with some graphs. Data retrieved December 2009.


Population data   http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/censuspop08.xls   population, continent and countries, 1969 to 2008, from the US Census Bureau.  Also available in open office format   
http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/censuspop08.ods     


Mortality Indicators   http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/MortalityIndicatorsByGender.xlsx    mortality rate for infants, children, life expectancy. From the US Census Bureau, International Data Base. Downloaded May 2013.


World population and age groupings, 2000 and 2013   http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/WorldFactbookAges.xlsx   From the World Factbook. Data retrieved May 2013.




These are older data sets from the US government. The link to the sources may not work. I'll try to prepare updated versions.


World Demographics, 2008    http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/worlddemographics.ods   population, births, deaths, infant mortality rate, life expectancy, migrants, population by age.  All from the US Census Bureau.


Births, infant deaths, 1990 to 2008, from Census Bureau's International Database.     http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/IDB_BirthsInfantDeaths.xlsx    Can be used to calculate infant mortality rate.


PD-Data   http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/PD-Data.xls   population infant mortality and life expectancy by country from US Census International Data Base, 1980-2000. If you would like the data in another format, please let me know.NOTE: I made slight corrections to infant mortality rate data, Nov 5th 2005.


PD-Data2   http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/PD-Data2.xls   world factbook (migration, infant mortality, gdp per capita, literacy, population, phone lines and per capita), International database (infant mortality), USDA data (food expenditure as percent of total expenditures, percent of food expenditure by type of food). If you would like the data in another format, please let me know.


PD-data-cia   http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/PD_data_cia.xls     World Factbook, popluation, GDP, area, coastline, revenues, expenditure, inequality index, ethnic distributions, phone lines, % land cultivated, % of economy in industry, birthrate, deathrate, infant mortality rate, a few other variables. CSV versions are here
http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/PD_data_cia.csv   and   http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/PD_data_cia_nine_comma.csv   the variable "end" in the last column is just a placeholder. The first data set has blanks for missing. The second uses -9.99 for missing.


PD-Data-Aggregate    http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/PD-Data-aggregate.xls     Population trends aggregated by more/less developed and by regions.


USDA GDP data    http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/ersallcombine.xls   GDP and GDP per capita, population, by world region and countries, 1970 to 2007.
Updated version (to 2008) is here   http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/popgdpgdppercapita.xls     and available in OpenOffice format  
http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/popgdpgdppercapita.ods   


Eia_gdp   http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/eia_gdp.xls    GDP and GDP per capita, population, energy consumption per capita, energy production 1980-2002, by world region. Data had been on the US Energy Information Administration web site. Similar data are now on the USDA web site. See above and PD_useful.xls below.


Energy consumption by type.   http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/tablee1_compareconsume.xls   Data from the US Energy Information Administration. Energy consumption by type (petroleum, gas, nuclear, etc). 1980, 90, 95, 2000 and 2004.


Pop-energy   http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/pop_energy.xls    Population, energy consumption, energy consumption per capita, energy production, energy production, energy production per capita, 1980-2002, countries and by world region. Data had been from from the US Energy Information Administration, now GDP data are at USDA.


Age structure   http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/age.xls   from the US Census Bureau.


Religion   http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/religion.xls   data from World FactBook, percent of population in countries which are Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, and None.




These data sets contain data from private organizations.
I got permission to include the data in data sets posted on this website, so anyone can use the data, as long as you cite the original source.


Quality of Life, country data   http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/QualityOfLifeCountryData_all.ods   includes data from a variety of sources, on population, infant mortality, GDP and GDP per Capita, education, happiness, freedom and the Human Development Index. Data for 234 countries (not all countries have data for all variables). Most of the variables have data for 2010 and regular time periods through 40-50 years ago.

Quality of Life, Reconstructed.  http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/QualityOfLife_reconstructed.ods   simple scale, consisting of GDP per capita, education, infant mortality rate, happiness and freedom


PD-Plus   http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/PD-Plus.xls   population, infant mortality from US Census International Data Base, 1980-2000; world factbook (infant mortality, gdp per capita, literacy, population, phone lines and per capita); freedom; contestation; quality of life; FAO food security; unesco literacy. These latter data are not public domain and must be cited appropriately, but I got permission from the relevant agencies, so that anyone is free to use this data set for non commercial purposes. The data set is large and best downloaded using a fast connection. NOTE: I made slight corrections to infant mortality rate data, Nov 5th 2005.  Added religion, in January 2009.
 

Current world data   http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/currentworlddata_forwikiprogress.ods   This data set includes population, human rights, gdp per capita, infant mortality rate, poverty, expected years of school and inequality. The data set is in open office ods format, and was developed for the Wiki Progress project   http://wikiprogress.org/index.php/Main_Page   and the data are also available at the wikistat page   http://stats.wikiprogress.org/  (see the combined data sets) and, here is the data set in excel   http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/currentworlddata_forwikiprogress_excel.xls     


Human Rights / Freedom Data    http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/us_dostate_freedom_may3.xls    data from US Department of State and from Freedom House.  These two sources correlate 0.77. 


CIA World Factbook data, energy consumption, some International Database from the US Census   http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/PD_useful.xls   also includes a few other variables such as freedom, quality of life, food security.



FAO Food Deprivation trends    http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/undernourishment.ppt    powerpoint slides of undernourishment trends, developing world, by regions, 1969-2002. Data from FAO.


Demographic data from US Census International Data Base, including population, births, infant mortality, and age distribution (% age under 5 and % age 65 and over), and Barro and Lee, percent of population with no schooling.  US Census data is not so easy to work with, so we've reformatted the data set.  Click here to download just the US Census data set in zip format, as lotus123 and excel. Click here to download the US Census combined with Barro and Lee's data, just in lotus format.



Data from the UN

The UN Terms of Use page says
"All data and metadata provided on UNdata’s website are available free of charge and may be copied freely, duplicated and further distributed provided that UNdata is cited as the reference. "
http://data.un.org/Host.aspx?Content=UNdataUse


http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/UN_Population.xlsx    Just population data, by country, 1950 to 2100. The country data also identifies which region it is in. Data from the 2010 World Population Prospect.


http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/UNPopulation19502015.xlsx   Population data, by country, 1950 to 2015. Data from the 2012 World Population Prospect.


http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/PopByAge3Groups.xlsx    Population data, by country, by three age groups, 0-14, 15-59 and 60+.  Numbers and percents. Data from the 2012 World Population Prospect.


http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/UN_BirthDeathMigration.xlsx    Birth, death and net migration data, by country, 1950 to 2100. The country data also identifies which region it is in.


http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/UN_IMRFertilityRate.xlsx    Infant mortality rate and total fertility rate data, by country, 1950 to 2100. The country data also identifies which region it is in.


http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/UNData_malefemale.xlsx   life expectancy, infant mortality, by gender, by country.



World Bank


http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/population_WB_UN_IDB.xlsx   Population from the World Bank and US Census International Database, 2010, just a comparison of data.

http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/population_WB_UN_IDB_JustData2.xlsx    shorter version, World Bank, UN, CIA World Factbook and US Census International Database.  Just data and summary

 
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