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Census and statistics data by country

Theme
Census & statistics
Countries
220
National sources
400
Global datasets
10
Last verified

National statistics offices and census portals, many with boundary files for their reporting areas, plus international statistical databases. This page lists all 400 national statistics sources in the catalogue, country by country, after the 10 global datasets.

Global census & statistics datasets

  • UNdata (opens in a new tab)

    Download Cost: Free

    UN Statistics Division · Global

    One search across UN statistical databases: population, national accounts, energy, environment and gender statistics by country.

    • Census & statistics
    • Population
    Licence
    Free use with attribution (UNdata terms)
    Formats
    CSV, XML, API
    Link
    data.un.org

    Verified

  • World Bank Open Data (opens in a new tab)

    API Cost: Free

    World Bank · Global

    World Development Indicators and 1,400+ country-level time series (population, GDP, energy, environment) since 1960.

    • Census & statistics
    • Population
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    Formats
    CSV, XLSX, API
    Link
    data.worldbank.org

    Verified

  • EM-DAT international disaster database (opens in a new tab)

    Download Cost: Free

    CRED, UCLouvain · Global

    Records of 26,000+ natural and technological disasters since 1900 with deaths, people affected and losses by country.

    • Natural hazards
    • Census & statistics
    Licence
    Free for non-commercial use (registration)
    Formats
    XLSX, CSV
    Link
    emdat.be

    Verified

  • FAOSTAT (opens in a new tab)

    Download Cost: Free

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN · Global

    Country-level statistics on crops, livestock, land use, emissions and trade for 245 countries since 1961.

    • Agriculture & soils
    • Census & statistics
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    Formats
    CSV, API
    Link
    fao.org

    Verified

  • Gridded Population of the World (GPWv4) (opens in a new tab)

    Download Cost: Free with registration

    CIESIN, Columbia University / NASA SEDAC · Global

    Census-based population counts and density at 30 arc-seconds for 2000–2020, distributed without modelling covariates.

    • Population
    • Census & statistics
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    Formats
    GeoTIFF, NetCDF, ASCII
    Link
    earthdata.nasa.gov

    Verified

  • World Bank Data Catalog (opens in a new tab)

    Portal Cost: Free

    World Bank · Global

    Search for World Bank datasets including geospatial layers (boundaries, infrastructure, poverty maps) and microdata.

    • Open data portal
    • Census & statistics
    Licence
    Per dataset (mostly CC BY 4.0)
    Formats
    CSV, Shapefile, GeoTIFF, API
    Link
    datacatalog.worldbank.org

    Verified

  • Eurostat GISCO (opens in a new tab)

    Download Cost: Free

    European Commission (Eurostat) · Europe

    NUTS regions, LAU, countries, coastlines and 1 km population grids for Europe at scales from 1:1M to 1:60M.

    • Boundaries & admin
    • Census & statistics
    Licence
    Eurostat reuse policy (free, attribution; EuroGeographics restrictions on some boundaries)
    Formats
    GeoJSON, Shapefile, TopoJSON
    Link
    ec.europa.eu

    Verified

  • Global Human Settlement Layer (opens in a new tab)

    Download Cost: Free

    European Commission JRC · Global

    Built-up surface, building height, population grids (GHS-POP) and degree of urbanisation from 1975 to 2030 at 10 m–1 km.

    • Population
    • Buildings
    • Land cover
    • Census & statistics
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    Formats
    GeoTIFF
    Link
    human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu

    Verified

  • Humanitarian Data Exchange (opens in a new tab)

    Portal Cost: Free

    UN OCHA · Global

    Humanitarian open data portal with 20,000+ datasets including OCHA common operational datasets (admin boundaries, population) for every crisis country.

    • Open data portal
    • Boundaries & admin
    • Population
    • Census & statistics
    Licence
    Per dataset (mostly CC BY 4.0 / CC BY 3.0 IGO)
    Link
    data.humdata.org

    Verified

  • WorldPop (opens in a new tab)

    Download Cost: Free

    University of Southampton · Global

    Gridded population counts and age/sex structure at 100 m and 1 km for every country, annually from 2000.

    • Population
    • Census & statistics
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    Formats
    GeoTIFF, CSV
    Link
    worldpop.org

    Verified

Census & statistics sources by country

Africa 54 countries

Algeria 1
Angola 2
Benin 1
Botswana 3
Burkina Faso 2
Burundi 2
Cabo Verde 2
Cameroon 2
Central African Republic 2
Chad 2
Comoros 1
Côte d'Ivoire 2
Democratic Republic of the Congo 3
Djibouti 2
Egypt 3
Eritrea 1
Eswatini 1
Ethiopia 3
Gabon 2
Ghana 4
Guinea 2
Guinea-Bissau 1
Kenya 5
Lesotho 2
Liberia 2
Libya 1
Madagascar 2
Malawi 2
Mali 2
Mauritania 2
Mauritius 2
Morocco 2
Mozambique 2
Namibia 2
Niger 2
Nigeria 4
Republic of the Congo 1
Rwanda 2
Saint Helena 1
São Tomé and Príncipe 2
Senegal 2
Seychelles 2
Sierra Leone 2
Somalia 1
South Africa 3
South Sudan 2
Sudan 1
Tanzania 3
The Gambia 2
Togo 2
Tunisia 4
Uganda 3
Zambia 1
Zimbabwe 2

Asia 50 countries

Afghanistan 1
Armenia 2
Azerbaijan 2
Bahrain 2
Bangladesh 2
Bhutan 2
Brunei 1
Cambodia 2
China 1
Cyprus 1
Georgia 2
Hong Kong 2
India 3
Indonesia 2
Iran 1
Iraq 3
Israel 1
Japan 4
Jordan 1
Kazakhstan 3
Kuwait 1
Kyrgyzstan 2
Laos 2
Lebanon 1
Macao 1
Malaysia 3
Maldives 2
Mongolia 2
Myanmar 2
Nepal 2
North Korea 1
Oman 1
Pakistan 3
Palestine 2
Philippines 2
Qatar 3
Saudi Arabia 2
Singapore 2
South Korea 2
Sri Lanka 2
Syria 1
Taiwan 1
Tajikistan 2
Thailand 2
Timor-Leste 2
Türkiye 2
Turkmenistan 1
United Arab Emirates 4
Uzbekistan 2
Vietnam 2

Europe 48 countries

Åland Islands 1
Albania 2
Andorra 1
Austria 2
Belarus 1
Belgium 1
Bosnia and Herzegovina 3
Bulgaria 1
Croatia 1
Czechia 2
Denmark 1
Estonia 1
Faroe Islands 1
Finland 1
France 2
Germany 3
Greece 1
Guernsey 1
Hungary 3
Iceland 1
Ireland 1
Isle of Man 1
Italy 3
Jersey 2
Kosovo 1
Latvia 1
Liechtenstein 1
Lithuania 1
Luxembourg 1
Moldova 2
Monaco 2
Montenegro 1
Netherlands 3
North Macedonia 1
Norway 2
Poland 3
Portugal 1
Romania 2
San Marino 1
Serbia 1
Slovakia 2
Slovenia 1
Spain 1
Sweden 2
Switzerland 2
Ukraine 2
United Kingdom 13
Vatican City 1

North America 33 countries

Anguilla 1
Antigua and Barbuda 1
Barbados 1
Belize 1
Bermuda 1
British Virgin Islands 1
Canada 1
Cayman Islands 1
Costa Rica 1
Cuba 1
Curaçao 1
Dominica 1
Dominican Republic 1
El Salvador 1
Greenland 1
Grenada 1
Haiti 1
Honduras 1
Jamaica 2
Mexico 3
Montserrat 1
Nicaragua 1
Panama 1
Puerto Rico 1
Saint Barthélemy 1
Saint Kitts and Nevis 1
Saint Lucia 1
Saint Martin 1
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1
Trinidad and Tobago 1
Turks and Caicos Islands 1
United States 12
United States Virgin Islands 1

South America 12 countries

Argentina 1
Bolivia 1
Brazil 1
Colombia 2
Ecuador 1
Falkland Islands 1
Guyana 1
Paraguay 1
Peru 1
Suriname 1
Uruguay 1
Venezuela 1

Oceania 23 countries

American Samoa 1
Australia 3
Cook Islands 1
Fiji 3
French Polynesia 1
Guam 2
Kiribati 3
Marshall Islands 4
Micronesia 4
Nauru 2
New Caledonia 1
New Zealand 2
Niue 3
Norfolk Island 1
Northern Mariana Islands 1
Palau 2
Papua New Guinea 2
Samoa 1
Solomon Islands 2
Tonga 3
Tuvalu 2
Vanuatu 3
Wallis and Futuna Islands 1

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