International Cities: Information & Statistics: Data

(Online only; open access)
"Produced by the OECD Sahel and West Africa Club, Africapolis.org is the only comprehensive and standardised geospatial database on cities and urbanisation dynamics in Africa. Combining demographic sources, satellite and aerial imagery and other cartographic sources, it is designed to enable comparative and long-term analyses of urban dynamics - covering 7500 agglomerations in 50 countries." Description from database home page.

Visual data. "A collection of digitized images of buildings and cities drawn from across time and throughout the world, available to students, researchers and educators on the web." Quote from the Home page.

Contains pricing information on more than 160 products and services in 123 cities worldwide. You can check everything from the cost of a loaf of bread in Adelaide to the average electricity bill of a local family in Zurich. Update frequency: Twice a year. Click on the CityData link at the bottom of the Cornell EIU portal page.

Rich data in a variety of topics on large urban areas (e.g. urban development, urban land use policies) as well as census data from different countries.

The web site of the World Association of major metropolitan cities and regions (population over one million). Provides data about urban agglomerations, cities population, and urban growth as well as a number of links to urban-related web sites.

Also know as Euromonitor International. Cornell authenication required and acceptance of use terms. Then click on the Cities link in the Search column. Passport GMID: Cities provides fully-comparable data and in-depth analysis on 850 of the world’s largest cities.

Developed by the United Nations Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Provides longitudinal data on urbanization on the country level.