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International Data Base

The International Data Base (IDB) offers a variety of demographic indicators for countries and areas of the world with a population of 5,000 or more. The IDB has provided access to demographic data for over 25 years to governments, academics, other organizations, and the public. It is funded by organizations that sponsor the research of the Census Bureau"s International Programs Center for Demographic and Economic Studies. For more information and all the Release Notes see the Frequently Asked Questions page.

Release Notes: April 2004

This release of the IDB contains revised estimates and projections for 28 countries.

1. Expansion of the projections to age 100+ for selected countries:

In order to better project countries with increasing numbers of people in the oldest ages, we have started converting our projections to be performed on data by single years of age up to 100 years and over. This change as well as the inclusion of new data was done for the following countries:

  • Armenia
  • China
  • Croatia
  • Estonia
  • Georgia
  • Hong Kong S.A.R.
  • Iceland
  • Kazakhstan
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Latvia
  • Lithuania
  • Malta
  • Portugal
  • Russia
  • Serbia and Montenegro
  • Singapore
  • Slovenia

2. New data and/or analysis. New data and/or analyses have been incorporated into the estimates and projections for the following countries or areas:

  • Afghanistan
  • Algeria
  • Chile
  • Ecuador
  • Iran
  • Nicaragua
  • Pakistan
  • Peru
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Tunisia
  • Uruguay

Release notes history

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Source: U.S. Census Bureau | International Programs | International Data Base   Revised:August 28, 2012   Version: Data:12.0625 Code:12.0321