IPUMS International Historical Geographic Information System

The International Historical Geographic Information System (IHGIS) provides data tables from statistical publications of population and housing censuses and agricultural censuses from around the world. Topics covered vary by census. Population and housing censuses typically cover topics such as demographic characteristics, household structure, education, economic activity, migration, and physical characteristics of dwellings. Agricultural censuses typically cover topics such as type and size of farms, area and yield of various crops, number and type of livestock and other animals, access to resources and services, planting and irrigation practices, and farm employees. Version 2 includes data from published tables from twenty-nine countries, encompassing twenty-two population censuses and eleven agricultural censuses, along with GIS-compatible boundary files that can be be used to map the data. It also includes data tabulated from 305 IPUMS International microdata samples, covering 86 countries. (GIS files associated with the microdata tabulations are available via IPUMS International.