University of Colorado at Boulder

Professor Jane Menken

World Population

http://www.popnet.org

Information plus linkages to other pop-related websites

Demographic Resources

http://www.census.gov

Information on lots of things, including Census 2000

http://www.statcan.ca

Statistics Canada site

http://www.inegi.gob.mx

INEGI (Instituto Nacional de Estadistica, Geografía, y Informática)

Agency that conducts the Mexican census

http://www.ciesin.org

Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network

Demographic Perspectives

http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Condorcet.html

Biographical information and list of publications of The marquis de Condorcet.

http://www.ecn.bris.ac.uk/het/malthus/popu.txt

Full text of Malthus's first(1798) Essay on Population

http://www.emagazine.com/november-december_1996/1196conv.html

Conversation with neo-Malthusians Paul and Anne Ehrlich.

http://opr.princeton.edu/archive/eufert/

Information on Princeton European Fertility Project.

http://www.popcouncil.org/pdr/pdrabs.html

Abstract of articles published in the Population and Development Review.

Mortality

http://www.northwesternmutual.com/games/longevity

Calculation of own expected age at death.

http://www.who.int/whosis/

Data from the World Health Report (WHO)

http://www.cihi.com

Health related data from mostly from developing countries.

http://www.cdc.gov/nchswww/fastats/deaths.htm

Data on mortality in the United States.

http://www.statcan.ca/english/Pgdb/People/health.htm

Data on mortality in Canada.

Fertility Conepts and Measurement

http://www.jhuccp.org/poprpts.stm

Wide range of fertility and family planning topics (Johns Hopkins University).

http://www.agi-usa.org/home.html

Information about the organization-Alan Guttmacher Institute and their publications.

http://www.ippf.org

Information about International Planned Parenthood Federation.

http://www.macroint.com/dhs/

Summary of results and status of the Demographic and Health Surveys conducted by Macro International.

http://www.yahoo.com/health/reproductive_health/birth_control/

On birth control methods.

Fertility Trends, Levels, and Explanations

http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbacc.html

Data on fertility (international) compiled by US Census Bureau

http://www.unfpa.org/SWP/SWPMAIN.HTM

Annual reports of the UNFPA.

http://www.pcbs.org/english/sel_stat.htm

Results from recent demographic surveys of the Palestinian population.

http://www.hist.umn.edu/~rmccaa

Information on the population history of Mexico.

http://www.mofa.go.jp/j_info/japan/socsec

Speeches given overseas by influential Japanese scholars on population issues: check these two sites specially:.../sodei.html and .../ogawa.html.

Migration

http://migration.ucdavis.edu

Summary and comments on newspaper, magazins, and journal article about migration.

http://www.ins.usdoj.gov

Information about and for immigrants and refugees in the United States.

http://cicnet.ci.gc.ca

Research and publication information on immigrants in Canada.

http://www.refugees.org

Information about refugees and and asylees for almost every country of the world (US)

http://www.unhchr.ch

Information about refugees and asylees for almost every country of the world (UN)

http://www.ercomer.org

Comparative migration research with a focus on Europe.

Age and Sex Structure

http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/ibdpyr.html

Program to draw an age/sex pyramid for any country in the world.

http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbacc.html

Actual number of people by age and sex for any country in the world.

http://www.census.gov/population/www/projections/popproj.html

Documentation and tables for the USA by age, sex and race/ethnicity for 1995-2050.

http://www.statcan.ca:80/english/Pgdb/People/Population/demo23a.htm

Documentation and tables for Canada by age and sex for 1996-2106.

http://www.inegi.gob.mx/homeing/estadistica/sociodem/poblacion/pob-5.html

Documentation and tables for Mexico by age and sex for 1990-1995.

http://hometown.aol.com/genxcoal/genxcoal.htm

Literature on Baby bust.

http://www.rand.org/publications/CF/CF124/CF124.chap6.html

Text and graphics on changes in the age and sex structure of the Russian population.

Population Aging

http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/age.html#elderly

Demographic of aging in the USA.

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/TRSUM/trsummary.html

Report of Trustees of the US Social Security Administration(SSA).

http://www.nih.gov/nia/bsr/bsrdda.htm

Official website of the US National Institute of Aging (NIA) as well as link to other aging-related websites.

http://www.umich.edu/~hrswww

Details and results of the study-Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD) project at the Univ. of Michigan.

http://www-nais.ccm.emr.ca/schoolnet/issues/agepop/eaging.html

Description of the older Canadian population along with maps showing the geographic distribution of the elderly in Canada.

Family Demography and Life Chances

http://www.slip.net/~ccf

Websites of the academia who are more progressive in their views on family and household diversify.

http://www.kidscampaigns.org

Websites of the academia who are moderate in their views on family and household diversify.

http://www.isr.umich.edu/src/psid

Information on Panel Study on Income Dynamics (PSID)-a longitudinal study emphasizing the changing aspects of demographic and economic behavior in American society (1968-).

http://www.irc.essex.ac.uk

Information on a longitudinal study of British households, (1989-).

http://stats.bls.gov/ocohome.htm

Information on occupational growth potentials in the USA.

http://www.hrdc-drhc.gc.ca

Issues of occupational and employment development in Canada.

Urban Transition

http://www.un.org/Conferences/habitat

Official website for the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements held in Istambul in 1996.

http://www.undp.org/popin/wdtrends/urb/urb.htm

Population estimates of the world cities.

http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/Mexico/water/book.html

Information on Mexico city's water supply problem.

http://130.166.124.2/library.html

Census data from 1990 for several major cities in the United States with mapping..

http://edcwww2.cr.usgs.gov/umap/umap.html

Movie on the urban growth of the San Francisco bay Area and the Washington DC.

Population, Development, and the Environment

http://www.pbs.org/thinktank/archive/transcripts/transcript.112.html

A transcript from PBS TV show "Think Tank"

http://www.populationaction.org/why_pop/birthdearthfs.htm

Information about the consequences of continued population growth in the world.

http://connectory.sdsu.edu

Information about the local level economic development.

http://www.undp.org/hdro

Information about the relationship between population and economic development.

http://www.worldbank.org/data/wdi/wdi.htm

Recent World Development Indicators data by World Bank.

Population Growth, Food, and the Environment

http://www.fao.org

Data on land use and agricultural production (UN).

http://www.sarep.ucdavis.edu

Sustainable agriculture and dissemination of that information.

http://www.den.doi.gov/wwprac/reports/west.htm

Information on the impact of population growth on water resources-a US Govt reports.

http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/press/98/0422cli.html

Information on global climate change.

http://www.ucsusa.org/resources/index.html

Information on global environmental issues.

Population Policy

http://www.tfgi.com/software/SPEC.HTM

Models for population projection and assessing family planning program needs.

http://www.undp.org/popin/icpd5.htm

Information on world progress in achieving the Program of Action from the 1994 ICPD.

http://www.populationinstitute.org

Official website of The Population Institute in Washington DC.

http://www.zpg.org

Official website of Zero Population Growth.

http://www.africa2000.com

Information on voices against implementing population policies.

http://www.jstor.org

Journal Storage: Online Access to Scholarly Literature.