If you are looking for specific information about a country census:
Start with the country profiles created by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and browse the brief history to determine when censuses were taken.
If you don't see the name of the country that you are looking for in that list go to the historical bibliographies tab in this guide. The UNSD site only contains current countries.
If you are looking for comparative summary statistics or summary time series tables:
Use the general statistics tab in this guide. Note: these resources provide a mixture of census, administrative, and survey data.
- Intergovernmental (IGO) resource can be useful for finding comparative data as well as time series.
- IGO subject focus. Great for comparative and time series.
- Individual country statistical compendia and bulletins