Demography

Free, open-source tool that turns a two-column CSV into a clean state or district choropleth map of India

Tool GovernanceDemography India

The decennial census — population, household, migration and housing tables down to village and ward level

Data source DemographyHousing India

R package with digitised Census of India data from 1901 to 2011 at state, district and subdistrict level, ready to map

Tool DemographyCaste India

Ashoka University research center providing open socio-economic data tools, mandi prices, enterprise trackers, and policy analysis

Organisation EconomyAgriculture India

Open-access geospatial dataset and polygon boundaries of historical polities and states across the globe from 3400 BCE to the present

Data source Culture & heritageGovernance Global, India

Curated charts and underlying data on how India lives, earns and grows, built for people who are not statisticians

Data source DemographyEconomy India

Research group publishing SHRUG, an open geographic platform linking Indian census, economic and night-lights data

Data source EconomyDemography India

MoSPI's own data portal — national accounts, CPI, industrial production, labour force and consumption surveys, with an API

Data source EconomyLabour India

Saket Choudhary's newsletter reading India's births, deaths and health through large public datasets like HMIS, SRS and NFHS

Publication HealthDemography India

Comparable estimates of mortality, disability, and causes of disease across 200+ countries and over time — the standard reference for global health comparisons

Data source HealthDemography Global, India

IHME's catalogue of health datasets — surveys, disease registries, geospatial data, and Global Burden of Disease results, searchable by country and topic

Directory HealthDemography Global, India

Maps built-up areas, settlement types, and population density over four decades — essential for studying how cities expand through time

Data source CitiesHousing Global, India

Core IMF publication for macroeconomic scenarios, inflation, growth and policy forecasts, now and across comparable member economies

Publication EconomyPublic finance Global, India

Harmonised census microdata from 100+ countries — individual records spanning decades, making long-run comparative demographic research possible

Data source DemographyLabour Global, India

Interactive map and toolkit tracing how India's districts split, merged and were renamed from 1951 to 2024

Tool GovernanceDemography India

Unit-level records from India's national sample surveys — the raw respondent data behind the published aggregates

Data source EconomyLabour India

R client for the MoSPI Microdata Portal that searches and downloads NSS, PLFS, ASI, HCES and other survey unit-level data

Tool EconomyLabour India

India's oldest independent economic policy think tank, known for national household surveys, macroeconomic forecasting, and industrial studies

Organisation EconomyDemography India

Annual compendium of Indian health statistics — demography, disease burden, infrastructure, human resources and health finance

Publication HealthPublic finance India

MPI framework and India-facing material on poverty across education, health, living standards and regional deprivation

Publication WelfareEconomy India

NITI Aayog's platform standardising government datasets to a common format so they can be merged across ministries

Data source EconomyDemography India

Open, crowd-sourced historical world map documenting geographic and political boundaries across centuries using OpenStreetMap infrastructure

Data source Culture & heritageDemography Global, India

Harmonised rural health facility, infrastructure and workforce statistics for every Indian state and union territory, 2005–2023

Dashboard HealthDemography India

Large-scale historical database systematically coding the social, political, and institutional evolution of human societies over 5000 years

Data source Culture & heritageDemography Global, India

Official birth, death, fertility, infant mortality, life expectancy and cause-of-death statistics for India

Data source DemographyHealth India

R package that turns India's Sample Registration System reports into tidy tables of life tables, causes of death and vital rates

Tool DemographyHealth India

Research unit polling, discourse analysis, and a public archive of questions tracking young India's opinions and cultural shifts

Organisation Culture & heritageMedia India

The UN's official population estimates and projections for every country — age structures, fertility, mortality, migration, and urbanisation through 2100

Data source DemographyCities Global, India

Single search across the UN system's statistical databases, from population and trade to energy and national accounts

Data source DemographyEconomy Global, India

UNESCO's flagship annual report on global education access, learning quality and financing for SDG 4

Publication EducationCulture & heritage Global, India

WHO's health statistics repository — mortality, disease burden, health systems and risk factors by country

Data source HealthNutrition Global, India

WHO official global repository of health system indicators, risk factors, mortality and service access indicators

Publication HealthDemography Global, India

The World Bank's data storytelling platform — curated visualisations tracking progress on people, prosperity, planet, infrastructure, and digital globally

Dashboard EconomyDemography Global, India

Thousands of survey microdatasets — household, business, and administrative surveys from the World Bank and partner organisations, many with India content

Directory EconomyDemography Global, India

Development indicators for every country back to 1960 — economy, poverty, health, education and infrastructure, with a documented open API

Data source EconomyDemography Global, India

High-resolution gridded population maps at 100 m — where people live, updated yearly, essential for accessibility, health, and infrastructure research

Data source DemographyHealth Global, India