Africa: Population Studies

  • African Demography: Country Specific
      Demographic information on some African Countries, from University of Pennsylvania
  • African Population Database Documentation (Uwe Deichmann)
      This documentation describes the third version of a database of administrative units with associated population figures for Africa. This version provides considerably more than 4700 administrative units, compared to about 800 in the first and 2200 in the second version. In addition, for each of these units a population estimate was compiled for 1960, 70, 80 and 90 which provides an indication of past population dynamics in Africa.
    • African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC)
        The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) is a non-profit, non-governmental, international organization that is committed to conducting policy-relevant research on population and health issues in sub-Saharan Africa. The Center also facilitates the use of research evidence in policy and practice in the region, in addition to strengthening the research capacity of African scholars and institutions to enhance skills in generating credible scientific evidence.
    • The United Nations International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD): Cairo Conference Homepage
        This site has full hypertext of the Earth Negotiations Bulletin coverage, full text of the negotiating document in French, English and Spanish (with FTP capability for getting the document in Arabic, Chinese and Russian to come), maps of the NGO Forum site and http links into all of the government statements from the last PrepCom.
    • Demographic Indicators: 1995 and 2000
        This page allows you to obtain a summary demographic data for one or more countries. Information provided by the U.S. Bureau of the Census, International Data Base.
    • Global Population Database (GPOPDB)
        Critical Population Data available through CIESIN.
    • Southern African Migration Project
        The Southern African Migration Project is a three-year, multi-faceted research programme designed to facilitate the formulation and implementation of new policy initiatives on cross-border population migration in the region and to promote public aware ness on the role, status and contribution of foreign immigrants of African origin in South Africa.
    • World Fertility Survey: Africa
        Information on fertility from different African countries.

       
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    Editor: Dr. Ali B. Ali-Dinar, Ph.D, aadinar@sas.upenn.edu
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