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Data Resources

DATA & STATISTICS

UN World Population Prospects, population database http://esa.un.org/unpp/index.asp?panel=2

CIA World Factbook
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html

ILO’s Economically Active Population Estimates and Projections. http://laborsta.ilo.org/applv8/data/EAPEP/eapep_E.html

Population Reference Bureau’s “DataFinder”
http://prb.org/DataFinder.aspx

US Census Bureau, data access tools http://www.census.gov/main/www/access.html

US Census list of International Statistical Agencies http://www.census.gov/main/www/stat_int.html

World Bank, development data and statistics
http://worldbank.org/

INTERACTIVE GRAPHICS

AARP International’s interactive world map
http://www.aarpinternational.org/map/

Hans Rosling et al. Trendalyzer software from Gap-Minder
http://www.gapminder.org/

International Futures global modelling system
http://www.ifs.du.edu/introduction/ifs.aspx

PAI’s interactive population database
http://www.populationaction.org/

World Health Organization, Statistical Information System. http://www.who.int/whosis/en/

JOURNALS, ARTICLES AND RESEARCH

Demographic Research, an online peer-reviewed journal of the population sciences from The Max-Planck Institute for Demographic Research http://www.demographic-research.org/default.htm

Economist: Articles by subject, “pensions and ageing” http://www.economist.com/research/articlesBySubject/display.cfm?id=987105

International Issues from the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College: http://crr.bc.edu/topics/international%2520issues.html

“Public Policy & Aging Report” from the National Academy on an Aging Society. http://www.agingsociety.org/agingsociety/publications/public_policy/index.html

LINKS FROM OTHER ORGANIZATIONS

AARP International’s list of worldwide resources: http://www.aarpinternational.org/map_world/map_world_show.htm?doc_id=531132

Demographers without Borders list of links: http://demographers.org

International Demography Resources: http://home.comcast.net/~tdgryn/internat.html

International Union for the Scientific Study of Populations, Links to Population Sites: http://www.iussp.org/8index.php