awesome-demographic-methods
Awesome Demographic Methods 
An awesome curated list of resources for Demographic Methods. Inspired by Awesome Computational Social Science and others.
The order of entries within categories is either alphabetically or chronologically. Please add your resources according to the respective ordering
Contents
- Books
- Education
- Selected Papers With Reproducibility Packages
- Software
- Miscellaneous
- Relevant Awesome Lists
- Contributing
Books
Entries are ordered chronologically
- Demography: Measuring and Modeling Population Processes, by Preston, S., Heuveline, P., & Guillot, M. (2000)
- Essential Demographic Methods, by Wachter, K. W. (2014)
Education
Learning material/courses tailored towards Computational Social Science
Online Courses and Material
See also the Software section for material on software tools
- University of California (UC) Berkeley’s formal demography workshop
- Monica Alexander’s 2025-2026 course University of Toronto, Canada
- LSHTM course on Introduction to Demographic Methods and Population Analysis
- Ernesto Amaral’s 2025 course
Videos and Lectures
Workshops
University Course Programs
Bachelor, Master, PhD programs (alphabetically by country using ISO 3166-1 alpha 3 codes)
Bachelor programs
- BA Social and Population Sciences, University of Rostock, DEU
Master programs
- MA Sociology and Demography, University of Rostock, DEU
PhD programs
- The International Max Planck Research School for Population, Health and Data Science (IMPRS-PHDS), Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, DEU
- European Doctoral School of Demography
Selected Papers With Reproducibility Packages
Important papers for/about the field, not specific research. Ordered chronologically.
- Forecast accuracy hardly improves with method complexity when completing cohort fertility by Bohk-Ewald, C., Li, P., & Myrskylä, M. (2018)
- Reproducible materials for “APC Curvature Plots: Displaying Nonlinear Age-Period-Cohort Patterns on Lexis Plots.” by Acosta, E. (2019)
Software
Focus on publicly available tools, packages and software for demographic methods, preferably or only open source material
R
- Awesome R for general resources in R
- migest: Tools for Estimating, Measuring and Working with Migration Data by Abel, G. J. (2025)
- wcde: Download Data from the Wittgenstein Centre Human Capital Data Explorer by Abel, G. J., K.C, S., Potancokova, M., Reiter, C., Tamburini, A., & Yildiz, D. (2024)
- Bayesian Probabilistic Projection of International Migration by Azose, J. J., & Raftery, A. E. (2015)
- Christiandudel/dtms [R] by Dudel, C. (2026)
- demography: Forecasting Mortality, Fertility, Migration and Population Data by Hyndman, R., Booth, H., Tickle, L., Maindonald, J., Wood, S., & R Core Team. (2025)
- vital: Tidy Analysis Tools for Mortality, Fertility, Migration and Population Data by Hyndman, R., Tang, S., McBain, M., & O’Hara-Wild, M. (2025)
- demogR: Analysis of Age-Structured Demographic Models by Jones, J. H., & Oeppen, J. (2018)
- LexisPlotR: Plot Lexis Diagrams for Demographic Purposes by Ottolinger, P., & Smilde-Becker, M. (2020)
- Alysonvanraalte/LifeIneq by Raalte, A. van. (2025)
- DemoDecomp: Decompose Demographic Functions by Riffe, T. (2024)
- DemoTools by Riffe, T. (2025)
- HMDHFDplus: Read Human Mortality Database and Human Fertility Database Data from the Web by Riffe, T., Boe, C., Hilton, J., Goldstein, J., Holzman, S., & Yoo, S. H. (2025)
- bayesPop: Probabilistic Population Projections by Ševčíková, H., & Raftery, A. E. (2016)
- rsocsim: SOCSIM by Theile [aut, T., cre, cph, Alburez-Gutierrez, D., Snyder, M., & Calderón-Bernal, L. P. (2026)
- DemoKin: Estimate Population Kin Distribution by Williams, I., Alburez-Gutierrez, D., Song, X., & Hal, C. (2023)
- rcbayes: Estimate Rogers-Castro Migration Age Schedules with Bayesian Models by Yeung, J., Alexander, M., & Riffe, T. (2022)
- TwoTimeScales: Analysis of Event Data with Two Time Scales by Carollo, A., Eilers, P. H. C., & Gampe, J. (2026)
Python
- Awesome Python (other lists: 1, 2, 3) for general resources in Python
- Cacrespo/pylexis by Crespo, C. A. (2024)
- Solving Actuarial Math with Python by Terence Lim
- PyCCM: cohort component based projections
Stata
Miscellaneous
Resources that do not fit into other categories
Relevant Awesome Lists
- Awesome Causality
- Awesome Community Detection
- Awesome Computational Social Science
- Awesome Data Science with Python (another)
- Awesome Data Science
- Awesome Data Visualization
- Awesome Deep Learning
- Awesome Digital Humanities
- Awesome Jupyter
- Awesome Machine Learning
- Awesome MySQL
- Awesome Network Analysis
- Awesome NLP (another one)
- Awesome Notebooks
- Awesome Open Science
- Awesome Python (other lists: 1, 2, 3)
- Awesome Quarto
- Awesome R
- Awesome Research Software Registries
- Awesome Scholarly Data Analysis
Contributing
Contributions welcome! Read the contribution guidelines first.