Columbia University
Nasa: Sedac: Population Distribution and Change
[Free Registration/Login Required] A collection of forty-nine data sets from SEDAC (Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center) that examine the distribution of human populations around the world and the changes that have taken place in...
The World Bank
World Bank: Poulation, Total
This site from the World Bank provides data on population for most of the countries of the world in 2020, and shows the change in the rate from 1960 to 2020. Statistics are presented in a chart, line graph, bar graph, and map. The data...
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Population for Countries and Cities Around the World
Site calculates and approximates populations for numerous major cities around the world, and also has information about world countries as well.
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Info ukes.com: World War Ii in Ukraine
InfoUkes.com offers a huge article on how the Ukraine experienced World War II, with a population loss of 10 million.
The World Bank
World Bank: Data Catalog
This resource provides statistical data on numerous categories for nearly every country in the world. A great tool for a comparative analysis. Human, natural, and capital resources are all included.
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Percentage of the World's Population Under Various Political Systems
Time-line graphs and maps give visual representations of countries and populations under various kinds of political systems: autocracy, monarchy, communist state, etc.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Population Curve: Significance of Breakpoints
Learn about three models of population growth: linear, exponential, and logistic. Then conduct a population experiment to see how populations can work in the real world, and see how linear graphs can help simplify complicated ones.
Central Intelligence Agency
Cia: World Factbook: The Marshall Islands
This resource presents statistics about the Marshall Islands. Topics include population, language, history, geography and climate.
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Yahoo Kids World Factbook: Germany
A resource about Germany. Learn about the country's geography, population, economy, government, military, foreign relations. View statistical facts, a country map, and the national flag.
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Mapping Worlds: Show World: A New Way to Look at the World
This unique combination of data, demographics and innovative visuals resizes countries on a world map in relation to a menu of insightful data-driven topics, such number of deaths from cancer or amount of steel produced, giving us a new...
Texas State Historical Association
Texas State Historical Association: World War Ii
Describes the changes that took place in Texas during World War II, e.g., ways average Texans assisted in the war effort, and methods Governor Coke R. Stevenson used to promote Texas interests while also supporting the war. Also...
Central Intelligence Agency
Cia: World Factbook: Peru
This resource from the CIA World Factbook provides a detailed fact sheet of Peru. The content covers the country's geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues. It includes...
Central Intelligence Agency
Cia: World Factbook: Ecuador
The CIA World Factbook provides an extensive page of information on Ecuador, a neighbor to Colombia. Includes information on this country's economy, climate, geographical location, government, size, and much more.
Central Intelligence Agency
Cia: World Factbook: Belgium
This resource on Belgium includes statistics and facts on their people/population, government, economy, transportation and military.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: The World Population: Linear and Exponential Models
The population of the world has grown rapidly over the last century. In this activity, several models for the growth of the world's population will be developed. The validity of each in predicting past, current, and future populations...
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Metrocosm: How We Share the World
In this geographic interactive, students can visualize the world via the following six ways: GDP, government debt, population, births, wealth and billionaires.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: The World Population: Logistic Model With Ti Interactive!
In this activity, the logistic model for the growth of the world's population will be developed.
Christian Science Monitor
Christian Science Monitor: Population Decline in Sight
This Christian Science Monitor article notes the projections of a UN Conference of March 2001, predicting that fertility rates worldwide are decreasing, and population decline is in sight.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Simple Population Space Usage
Using data on population, land area, and house size, students will investigate how much space is used by people in Texas compared to the population of the world, and how much space would be required to give everyone in the world the...
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Just Maps: World Maps
An index of maps and flags of countries throughout the world. Also provides political maps, time zones, population, and religious maps of every region of the world.
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Population Education: Homepage
Population Education provides teacher training and a variety of teacher tools to help educators on population concepts such as population growth, overpopulation, our effect on the environment, and related resources.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: It's a Small World
In this activity, students collect population data for the world on 10 different days and then find a model for the data set assuming that over a short period of time the data can be considered linear. Finally, they evaluate the model...
The World Bank
World Bank: Bangladesh Data, Projects and Research
See the development challenges Bangladesh faces and the way the World Bank is assisting the country. There is also a brief summary of the various functions and organization of The World Bank as well as an overview of how priorities are...
Virginia Tech
Digital History Reader: Demographic Catastrophe: Native Population
When Christopher Columbus discovered the New World he and his entourage brought with them not only the views of Europeans, but also diseases of Europeans. This was catastrophic to the natives in the Caribbean Islands and Meso-America as...