Population Thematic Portal: Related Resources
Web Resources
CIESIN Thematic Guide Population Projections: The authors present a guide to such projections, aimed at researchers and educators who would benefit from putting them to greater use. Drawing on new practices and new thinking on uncertainty, methodology, and the likely future courses of fertility and life expectancy, they discuss who makes projections and how, and the key assumptions upon which they are based.
Geographically-Based Economic data (G-Econ): As of February 2006, version G-Econ 1.2 is available. G-Econ is a project, led by Professor William Nordhaus, Yale University, to develop a geophysically scaled economic data set. The end product will be a global data set on economic activity for all terrestrial grid cells at one degree longitude by one degree latitude resolution. The main effort of this research is to create data on gross cell product. Economic data is merged with other important demographic and geophysical data such as climate, physical attributes, location indicators, population, and luminosity. This data set will be publicly available to all researchers. It will be helpful in environmental and economic studies of energy, environment, and global warming.
National Trends in Population, Resources, Environment, and Development 2005: Country Profiles: With a view to improving knowledge of relationships among aspects of population, resources, environment and development, the Department of Economic and Social Affairs’Population Division has produced the PRED database, drawing on a variety of national-level comparative data and documents. This publication provides a set of country profiles showing the current situation and recent trends in population, resources, environment and development indicators, based on PRED Bank database, version 4.
Population, Resources, Environment, and Development Databank (PRED Bank): The PRED Bank brings together data series dealing with various aspects of population, labour force, education, economic and social development, land, water, and energy use. It also provides the texts of selected international treaties and conventions related to major environment and development issues.
World Mortality Report 2005: This report is the first of its kind to be issued on topics related to mortality and health. It presents information on mortality risks, life expectancy, maternal mortality, HIV prevalence, and national policies with respect to such topics for 192 countries. The data are compiled from civil registration, population censuses, nationally representative sample surveys and, in the case of national policies, Governments’ responses to United Nations inquiries and other sources. For each country, available data on 19 indicators are presented in tabular form. In most cases, this information is provided for two dates (around 1970 and around 2000). In addition, time series of life expectancy at birth and the infant mortality rate from various sources are presented for each country in graphical form.
World Population Policies 2005: This publication provides a summary overview of population policies and dynamics for each of the United Nations Member and non-member States for which data are available at mid-decade for the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and for 2005.
