Demographic Yearbook (UN)
The Demographic Yearbook presents data on population, age, sex, urban/rural residence, birth-rates and mortality for more than 200 countries. Data are prepared by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, in collaboration with national statistical agencies.
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World Summary: Population and vital statistics; population by sex, urban population and rate of increase; population by age and sex; derived measures of fertility
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Fertility: Live births by age of mother; live birth rates specific for age of mother; female population by age and number of children born alive; female population by age and number of children living
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Nuptiality and divorce: Population by age, sex and marital status
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Mortality: Expectations of life at exact ages; deaths by age and sex; death rates specific for age and sex.
2007 data was published in 2009.
Data from 1948 to 2007: available on this UN portal .
Data from 1948 to 1997 also available on CD-rom .
The Demographic and Social Statistics division of the UN provides details of data collation and methodology.
Data from 1948 to 2007 are available online .
Data from 1948 to 1997 are also available via the CD-rom server link in this Catalogue record .
CD-rom server access instructions are on this page .
The networked CD-rom uses a web-browser to provide access to the table of contents, data and documentation:
Raw data in ASCII and DBASE formats for importing into custom or specialised programmes such as SPSS, SAS and other statistical software;
Published tables in HTML and Adobe Acrobat PDF formats;
Tables in worksheet formats (ASCII delimited, Excel and Lotus).
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