15 June 2021 This project site accompanies an open access book edited by Achim Goerres and Pieter Vanhuysse "Global Political Demography". the book will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in July 2021. it will be accessible as an open-access book. https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030730642 You can already find the introduction here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3754776 It mainly contains the Global Political Demography Database compiled between the years 2017-2020 from various sources that is open for usage under CC 4.0-BY The Database contains data from across the globe on various measures from demography, economics, political science and sociology. If possible: we have included data on 2015, 1990, and projections for 2040. New in version 1.4: Family ties (Alesina & Giuliano: 2014) calculated by PCA with data from the World Values Survey New in version 1.3: See memurandum, codebook undeer 1.3 New in version 1.2: 5-year age groups, per capita gross domestic product (GDP), two letter country-codes. New in version 1.1: Survey-based retrospective turnout data for different age groups from Asian Barometer included.