Sources of international data

• Argentine Census Bureau http://www.indec.mecon.ar/default.htm
  In Spanish

• Australian Bureau of Statistics World Wide Web information service http://www.statistics.gov.au/
  

• Brazilizan Medial and Health Services http://www.ibge.gov.br/english/e-saude.htm
  

• Bureau de la statistique du Quebec http://www.bsq.gouv.qc.ca/bsq/donnees/demog.htm
  In French

• Demographic and Health Surveys http://www.macroint.com/dhs/
  The Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) program is one of the world's largest primary sources of information on women, men and their families in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. List of publications and data collections from more than 47 countries are available, with ordering information. No on-line publication or data access, though ftp access to the data is under construction.

• ESRC Data Archive http://dasun2.essex.ac.uk/index.html
  A searchable collection of every Social Science data set in the UK, including the British Census. On-line orders and limited email delivery are available.

• Fundacao IBGE, the Brazilian Agency for statistical, geographic, cartographic, geodetic and environmental information. http://www.ibge.gov.br/english/e-home.htm
  

• European data archives http://www.uib.no/nsd/diverse/utenland.htm
  Clickable image map of all European Social Science data archives

• Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Social Sciences Data Archive (SSDA) http://www3.huji.ac.il/www_magar/il-home.htm
  Israeli Social Science data archive. Includes on-line catalog search. Data can be emailed on request.

• International Family Planning Perspectives gopher://gopher.undp.org/11/ungophers/popin/popis/journals/ifpp
  On-line copies of every issue published since 1994.

• Japanese Statistics Bureau http://www.stat.go.jp/1.htm
  

• Minist¸re de l'Education Nationale, de l'Enseignement Supˇrieur et de la Recherche http://www.cri.ensmp.fr:80/dep/
  French Educational Statistics, mostly in French.

• National Institute of Statistics of Italy et de la Recherche http://sunsite.sut.ac.jp/embitaly/ItalFiles/Statis_Data.html
  

• OECD http://www.oecd.org/statlist.htm
  Contains current international data on member countries.

• South African Data Archive http://www.hsrc.ac.za/sada.html
  

• Statistics Canada http://www.statcan.ca/index.html
  

• Statistics New Zealand http://www.govt.nz/ps/min/stats/nzpeople.html
  

• Statistics Norway http://www-open.ssb.no/www-open/statemner/top_en.html
  

• Statistics Singapore http://www.ncb.gov.sg/stats/
  

• Swedish Data Archive http://www.ssd.gu.se/enghome.html
  Very comprehensive searchable index of all Swedish demographic census and survey data. None is on-line, but ordering information is available (although the documentation accompanying each data set is written in Swedish).

• United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) http://www.unifem.undp.org/
  Contains an informational overview of UNIFEM, as well as a list of their recent publications. There is no on-line data, however. The gopher address is gopher://gopher.undp.org/1/unifem.

• United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) http://www.unfpa.org/
  The State of World Population Report is online in it's entirery, as are recent issues of Populi, the UNFPA quarterly, some tehnical reports, and proceedings of the International Conference on Population and Development, held in Cairo in 1994.

• United Nations Population Information Network (POPIN) http://www.undp.org/popin/popin.htm
  Includes information on Conferences, Congresses & Symposia; Documentation for the UN Commission on Population and Development; POPIN Information Services; Regional Population Information Networks in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe, and the Americas; Software and Support for Population Activities; and information on World Demographic Trends. Extensive data and text documents.

• United Nations Womenwatch http://www.un.org/womenwatch/
  Extensive list of links to all relevant United Nations organizations. Also has information on various U.N. Women's conferences, and there is a good collection of international data in the "Women of the World" section.

• World Health Organization Statistical Information system (WHOSIS) http://www.who.ch/whosis/whosis.htm
  A searchable index of Health-For-All Global Indicators; Global Health Situation and Projections-Estimates; The Mortality Database; The Weekly Epidemiological Record; Malaria Information; AIDS information; European Health-for-All Statistical Database; Demographic and Health Surveys; Veterinary Public Health Information; and the WHO Global Database on Child Growth