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World Development Indicators and population statistics.

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Fertility Rate (Fertility) · Birth Rate (Fertility) · Death Rate (Mortality) · Population (Population) · Pop. Growth (Population) · Life Expectancy (Mortality) · Urban % (Population) · Net Migration (Migration) · Ages 0–14 (Population) · Ages 15–64 (Population) · Ages 65+ (Population) · Foreign-born (Migration) · Foreign-born % (Migration) · GDP (Economy) · GDP / capita (Economy) · GDP Growth (Economy) · Real GDP (Economy) · Real GDP / capita (Economy) · GDP / capita (PPP) (Economy) · GDP / capita (PPP, real) (Economy) · GNI / capita (Economy) · Inflation (Economy) · Unemployment (Economy) · Gini (inequality) (Economy) · Female LFP (Economy) · Exports / GDP (Economy) · Infant mortality (Mortality) · Maternal mortality (Mortality) · Life expectancy (F) (Mortality) · Life expectancy (M) (Mortality) · Suicide rate (Mortality) · Teen fertility (Fertility) · Contraceptive use (Fertility) · Density (Population) · Rural % (Population) · Female % (Population) · Urban growth (Population) · Dependency ratio (Population) · Health spending (Health) · Hospital beds (Health) · Literacy (Education) · Education spending (Education) · Secondary enrolment (Education) · Tertiary enrolment (Education) · Internet use (Society) · Electricity access (Society) · Homicide Rate (Crime)

European statistical office — crime, population and social statistics for EU/EFTA and candidate countries.

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Foreign prisoners (Crime) · Deportation orders (Migration) · Returns after order (Migration) · Return rate (Migration) · LFPR (nationals) (Migration) · LFPR (foreign citizens) (Migration)

Economic and social statistics for OECD members.

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Divorce Rate (Society) · Nonmarital Births (Society) · Home Ownership (Housing) · Native-born unemployment (Migration) · Foreign-born unemployment (Migration)

City-level fertility, age structure and foreign-born shares from national statistical offices (MHLW/e-Stat, CDC/NCHS, ONS, INSEE, KOSTAT, Destatis, DOS, C&SD, etc.).

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City TFR (Fertility) · City Foreign-born % (Migration) · City Age Share (Population) · GFR (Fertility)

End-year stock figures for refugees, people in refugee-like situations, and asylum-seekers by country of asylum (Refugee Population Statistics Database).

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Refugees (Migration) · Asylum-seekers (Migration) · Refugee share of migrants (Migration)

Induced abortion rates compiled from WHO and Guttmacher Institute estimates and national health statistics.

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Abortion Rate (Fertility)

Population of urban agglomerations with 300,000+ inhabitants, annual 1950–2035 (estimates to 2018, projections thereafter), UN Population Division.

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City Population (Population)

American Community Survey and Decennial Census figures for U.S. cities, counties and ZCTAs (accessed via Census Reporter).

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City median income (Economy)

Provisional / partial-year births and TFR nowcasts compiled from national statistical offices and ministries of health (BirthGauge). Not a substitute for final annual official TFR.

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TFR (provisional) (Fertility)

Compiled long-run demographic series (life expectancy, child mortality and related indicators) from academic reconstructions, HMD, UN IGME and UN WPP.

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Child mortality (Mortality)

Detailed mortality and population data for countries with high-quality vital registration, via Our World in Data grapher extracts.

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Historic death rate (Mortality)

Detected illegal border crossings on EU external borders, by migratory route. Administrative detections, not a population estimate.

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Border detections (Migration)

Recorded deaths and disappearances of people in the process of migration toward an international destination. Region-level; undercounts are likely.

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Migrant deaths (Migration)

Compiled research estimates of irregular / unauthorized migrant stocks for selected Western countries (EU, Canada, United States). Methodologies differ by country; treat as order-of-magnitude, not census counts.

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Irregular stock (Migration)

Official UN population estimates and projections.

World Economic Outlook macroeconomic data.

Cohort-component projections derived from World Bank inputs.

Ethnic & racial composition compiled from national population censuses.

Religious composition compiled from Pew Research Center and national censuses.

Bilateral international migrant stock by country of origin and destination (mid-2024 estimates), UN Population Division.

Detailed period and cohort fertility data reconstructed from official birth registration statistics, for countries with long vital-registration series (coverage starts 1891-1950 depending on country). Via Our World in Data grapher extracts.

Long-run demographic reconstructions (e.g. total fertility rate back to 1800) compiled by Gapminder from historical vital statistics, census records and UN sources.

International labour migration and labour-force statistics. Labour-force participation by citizenship on this site is primarily Eurostat LFS where available.