Datamob: demographics

World Bank API

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:12:00 -0500

The World Bank API offers data on 114 key economic indicators from three of the World Bank's most popular databases: World Development Indicators 2008, Worldwide Governance Indicators, and Doing Business. Also provides access to 12,000 images that illustrate development topics from The World Bank Photo Library and returns results in JSON or XML.

url: http://developer.worldbank.org/

National Center for Education Statistics

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:32:46 -0500

Tables and figures on education in the U.S., including state-specific tables. Downloadable in Microsoft Excel format.

url: http://nces.ed.gov/quicktables/

U.S. Census Data

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:04:30 -0500

Variety of tools for accessing U.S. Census data, including direct file access.

url: http://www.census.gov/main/www/access.html

Statistical Abstract of the United States

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:00:19 -0500

The U.S. Census Bureau's comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political and economic organization of the United States. Many tables downloadable in Microsoft Excel format.

url: http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/

UNdata

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:29:31 -0500

Search United Nations data and download in XML, comma-separated values, semicolon-separated values and pipe-separated values formats.

url: http://data.un.org/

U.S. Census Bureau International Database

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:36:24 -0500

Demographic data and population pyramids for countries around the world, available in ASCII text.

url: http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/summaries.html

World Bank Data & Statistics

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:30:20 -0500

Economic and demographic growth data for countries around the world, downloadable in Microsoft Excel format.

url: http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/DATASTATISTICS/0,,contentMDK:20535285~menuPK:1192694~pagePK:64133150~piPK:64133175~theSitePK:239419,00.html

EuroStat

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:21:41 -0500

Large variety of datasets about the European Union.

url: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page?_pageid=1090,30070682,1090_33076576&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL

2000 U.S. Census in RDF

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:20:19 -0500

By Joshua Tauberer.

url: http://www.rdfabout.com/demo/census/

DataPlace 2.0 (Beta)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:17:55 -0500

DataPlace is a free online data system that assembles a variety of housing and demographic data at geographic scales ranging from the neighborhood to the nation. DataPlace is unique in its emphasis on data comparability and quality, and for its licensing options available to organizations that would like to create their own data sites. By Knowledge Plex, Inc. More information about its data sources is available here.

url: http://beta.dataplace.org/

Worldmapper

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:28:43 -0500

A collection of cartograms, maps in which territories are resized according to measures like population, poverty, religion.

url: http://www.worldmapper.org/index.html

StateMaster

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:44:47 -0500

Graphically compare U.S. states in a thousand different ways.

url: http://www.statemaster.com/index.php

NationMaster

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:40:29 -0500

Graphically compare nations in a thousand different ways.

url: http://www.nationmaster.com