This report is also available through the Social Science Research Network
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2163196  

Brief review of world socio-demographic trends    http://gsociology.icaap.org/report/socsum.html    summary of main socio-demographic trends of the past several decades; changes in urbanization, education and ethnolinguistic fractionalization.
 

Brief review of trends in political change: freedom and conflict   http://gsociology.icaap.org/report/polsum.html    summary of trends in freedom and conflict of the past several decades, changes in political governance, freedom, armed conflict, refugees and terrorism.
 

Brief review of world economic trends   http://gsociology.icaap.org/report/econ/econsum.html    summary of trends in gdp, economic structure, poverty of the past several decades, and a discussion of poverty.

Brief review of world trends in technology: Part 1. Communication   http://gsociology.icaap.org/report/tech1sum.html    Summary of trends in TV, radio, newspapers, internet and  phone use.
   

Brief review of world trends in technology: Part 2. World Energy Production and Use   http://gsociology.icaap.org/report/energ/energytrends.html    Summary of trends in energy production and consumption, by type (e.g., oil,nuclear, hydroelectric).

Freedom Lost, Freedom Gained.   http://gsociology.icaap.org/report/freedom/FreedomLostAndGained.html    This report charts trends in freedom from 1972 to 2014.

Context of change in the 21st century http://gsociology.icaap.org/report/longterm.html   This report presents very long term patterns of change in population and economic output, from 0 CE (common era) to 1998. Also shows economic changes in the recent decades.
 

SELECTED DATA

Data from above reports and other free to use data   http://gsociology.icaap.org/dataupload.html

• pd-data, population, infant mortality and life expectancy, from the US Census International Database. Data by country and population trends aggregated by more/less developed and by region. Also powerpoint slides showing the trends.

• eia_gdp, gdp, gdp per capita and energy consumption per capita, from the US International Energy Agency. Data by country and trends aggregated by world region. Also powerpoint slides showing the trends.

• idbcensus123, which combines the following data into one lotus format file:

• U.S. Census Bureau International Data Base (IDB)   http://www.census.gov/population/international/data/idb/informationGateway.php   "The International Data Base (IDB) is a computerized data bank containing statistical tables of demographic, and socio-economic data for 227 countries and areas of the world."  This data set contains variables of population size, births, deaths, net migration and infant mortality.  Dr. Shackman repackaged the data to make it more convenient, into a lotus spreadsheet.
• Percent of population with no schooling, from Barro and Lee's, International Data on Educational Attainment, 1960, 1980 and 2000.  http://www.cid.harvard.edu/ciddata/ciddata.html     (near the bottom)

last updated November 2015