Historical Statistics: U.S. Statistics by Subject

Reports and data sets including natality, mortality, marriage, divorce, and various disease statistics. Search by:

Use NCHS Data Access and Resource Guides to navigate the site’s interactive tables, online querying tools, and direct download options.

Digitized copy of a complete Immigration Commission report published in 1910. The report’s data series includes number of immigrants, countries of origin, race and sex distributions, U.S. destinations, occupations, and financial status.

U.S. Census Bureau’s data series include total immigration figures, language/s spoken, places of origin, and other demographic statistics relating to the foreign-born population of the United States from 1850 to 1990.

Features sixteen U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ data series, including household employment data by race, age, and gender; educational attainment; unemployment figures; and full-time/part-time status.

Features nine U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ data series, including employment data by industry.

This website provides a list of online calculators and data sets for determining prices, exchange rates, and inflation rates for several countries, although the majority of the focus is on the United States and the United Kingdom. Data sets date from the 17th century to the present.

Administered by the Economic History Association, this website includes a wide variety of historical economic statistics from the United States and several other countries.
The section, “How Much is That?” http://www.measuringworth.com, allows the comparison of money and goods at different periods in history.

Provides annual statistical information on the U.S. banking industry beginning in 1934. Data series cover national and state level statistics, the number, structure and income of financial institutions; and the loans, liabilities, investments and deposits of banks.

Consists of a compilation of datasets created by individual scholars. The data include exchange rates, prices, and wages in specific geographic regions. Data sets are limited, as are search options, but this tool is useful for medieval economic research.