Data Portal

Below we provide a non-exhaustive list of publicly available data, relevant for the social sciences, and for demographers in particular.

Worldwide, simple and clear data
Micro datasets
Belgian datasets

The websites below give acces to a lot of data, and provide simple ways to produce key statistics, visualisations and insights.
Most of these sites only give acces to national-level statistics.

Our World in Data
Global Health Observatory (GHO) map gallery
Global Health Observatory (GHO) data
OECD Data
United Nations Population Fund
Gapminder
Eurostat
The Human Mortality Database
The Human Fertility Database
United Nations: Monitoring Global Population Trends
Eurostat

The datasets below mostly provide information on the individual level of respondents.
Sometimes you need to follow a procedure to obtain acces to the data.

Eurostat
IPUMS
European Social Survey (ESS)
Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC)
European Health Interview Survey (EHIS)
Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)

Statbel
Statistiek Vlaanderen
Brussels Instituut voor Statistiek en Analyse (BISA)
L’Institut wallon de l’évaluation, de la prospective et de la statistique (IWEPS)
InterMutualistisch Agentschap (IMA)
Standardized Procedures for Mortality Analysis (SPMA)
Zorg en Gezondheid

Datasets created by Interface Demography:

Lokale statistieken in België (HISSTAT – in collaboration with UGent)
Belcens – België doorheen de tellingen, 1961-2001